Multimodal Interaction in Professional Contexts

About

Are you ready to expand your understanding of interaction and its diversity?

This course is for you if you want to:

- Learn how to adapt your communication in different situations.
- Promote interaction between different kinds of people.
- Dive into the world of multimodal interaction!

Join us and open new doors to the world of interaction. You will learn written, spoken, and signed languages, touch and space as a channels of communication.

Methods: Different kind of assigments for example discussions with other students, lessons, quizes and written assigmens. The course is divided into sections which each take on a different focus on the topic. We recommend that you go through the topics in numerical order. However, it is possible for you to build your own path through the course topics.

Date: 1 June – 30 August. Online.

https://turkuabosummerschool.utu.fi/course-selection/multimodal-interaction/

Course leader

Humak University of Applied Sciences

Target group

Undergraduate students who have completed at least of one year of Bachelor’s studies in any field. Graduate and postgraduate students are also welcome. This course is suitable for everyone who is interested in interaction from a point of linguistic accessibility. Especially this course offers a wide view towards the concept of interaction. This course offers new kind of tools to improve interaction skills.

Course aim

The student will be able to

- explain the concept of multimodality
- identify different modes and channels of communication
- demonstrate understanding of how the multimodal view on interaction can be used to influence the interaction in the workplace
- identify how to develop one’s own skills in terms of multimodal interaction skills

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