Discourse in Working Life: Diversities and Patterns

A workplace may be described as an arena for communication where different tasks and projects need to be solved through or by means of communication.
The aim of this course is to give students insight into communicative patterns, processes and challenges in life at work. It gives insight into how communication patterns in the workplace contribute toward including and excluding, toward creating hierarchies or diminishing these. Such knowledge is a central premise for handling diversity and patterns of interaction in new and productive ways.

KNOWLEDGE

The student:
-has knowledge of the relationships between communication, participation and inclusion
-has knowledge of how to describe and analyze communication in the workplace
-has knowledge about strategies that can transform patterns of participation and communication

SKILLS

The student:
-can use scientific concepts to articulate the details and nuances of calls and texts and see how they will affect the communication as a whole
-can develop texts in collaboration with others
-can adapt texts to readers and situation and use guidelines for clear language
-can use knowledge of conversation and conversation management to facilitate participation in conversations in the workplace

Lectures, exercises, group work and writing seminars. Some activities are compulsory and begins at semester start.

We have limited capacity for guidance, and students with approved compulsory activities may not have the chance to do them again.