PV209 Person Centered Communication

Faculty of Informatics
Autumn 2023
Extent and Intensity
2/1/0. 3 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
prof. Renate Motschnig (lecturer)
prof. RNDr. Tomáš Pitner, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Katarína Palubová (lecturer)
Radmila Čermáková (assistant)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Tomáš Pitner, Ph.D.
Department of Computer Systems and Communications – Faculty of Informatics
Contact Person: prof. RNDr. Tomáš Pitner, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Computer Systems and Communications – Faculty of Informatics
Timetable
Thu 5. 10. 14:00–19:00 A319, Fri 6. 10. 9:00–17:00 A319, Thu 19. 10. 14:00–19:00 A319, Fri 20. 10. 9:00–17:00 A319, Thu 2. 11. 14:00–19:00 A319, Fri 3. 11. 9:00–17:00 A319
Prerequisites
Previous experience at the level of PV206 Communication and Soft-skills course or similar is highly recommended. A teacher’s approval is required.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 1/20, only registered: 1/20, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/20
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Course objectives
The primary goal of this course is to allow students to communicate more sensitively and effectively. The students will learn how to listen actively and to express oneself in ways that facilitate understanding.
Course goals in details: General. Participants acquire personal experience, skills, and background knowledge in situations of professional and everyday communication (such as listening, articulating, speaking in a group, conflict resolution, decision making, etc.). Participants build a learning community around the concern for better communication and understanding. Level of knowledge and intellect. Students acquire knowledge about the basics of the Person Centered Approach and Person Centered Encounter Groups. Level of skills and capabilities. Students gain active listening skills and improve their abilities in spontaneous communication and decision making in a group setting. Level of attitudes and awareness. Students gain self-experience while expressing own feelings, meanings, and intentions and perceiving those of others. They experience active listening and develop their own attitude towards it. Students become more sensitive and open to their own experience and loosen preconceived, rigidly held constructs. Students move towards acceptance and better understanding of themselves and others. Students move from more stereotyped behavior and facades to more personal expressiveness.
Learning outcomes
After a successful completion of the course, the students will be able to:
- professionally communicate using capabilities such as active listening, articulating, speaking in a group, resolve conflicts, make decisions;
- express oneself in ways that facilitate understanding;
- explain principles of Person Centered Approach and Person Centered Encounter Groups and apply them;
- spontaneously communicate and make decisions in a group setting;
- gain self-experience while expressing own feelings, meanings, and intentions and perceiving those of others;
- become more sensitive and open to their own experience and loosen preconceived, rigidly held constructs;
- move from more stereotyped behavior and facades to more personal expressiveness.
Syllabus
  • Person Centered Communication; Active Listening; Congruence, acceptance, empathic understanding; Person Centered Encounter Groups: group process; Decision making, conflict, reflection
  • Theoretical background: Person Centered Approach by Carl Rogers; Person centered, technology enhanced learning as developed at the Research Lab for Educational Technologies at the University of Vienna, Austria
  • Learning Methods: Group dialog; Self experience; Reflection, self evaluation; Literature study
Teaching methods
group dialog, Person-Centered self experience, work in small teams, theory presentation, reflection, self evaluation, literature study
Assessment methods
Besides participating in the group sessions, students will work in teams of 2-3 persons to elaborate theory topics in a self-directed way. The course assessment will take into account the students’ active participation in face-to-face sessions, online reflections, a brief seminar thesis, and will include an element of self-evaluation.
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught last offered.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: Blocks 1.5 day each.
Teacher's information
http://www.pri.univie.ac.at/courses/pcc/ss14/
The course will be held in Czech and English (mixed mode) depending on the preferences of the participants.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Autumn 2022, Spring 2024, Spring 2025.
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