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Course-unit Programme
(Regular Full-time Course Syllabus)
Course-unit details:
Name of course-unit (subject):
Cognitive Approach of Communication
Language of instruction (from sample unit): English
Name of course-unit in Hungarian (from sample unit):
ETR (USRS) course-unit code (subject unit):
Validity of course-unit (from subject):
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date of launch of course-unit: autumn/spring term of academic year 2013/2014
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Date of termination of course-unit:
Credit value of course unit (from course-unit element) :
Institute offering the course-unit  (from subject):
Instructor responsible for course-unit  (from subject):
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name:
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Ministry of Education Registry number*:
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SIN code*:
Course-unit group (subject DTL):
Course-unit type (subject unit):
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……… credits
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lecture
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practical class
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lecture and practical class to be completed together
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training
Course-unit term requirements (subject unit):
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examination
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practical grade based on a scale from 1 to 5
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mid-term classroom test at practical class + exam (pre-condition of applying for the exam is at least
a 50% performance at the practical class)
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practical grade based on a three-grade scale
Number of contact hours attached to the course-unit (subject unit):
Number of theoretical classes (lectures):
……… classes/week
Number of practical classes (seminars): ……… classes/week
Number of training classes:
……… classes/term
Content features of course-unit:
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Teaching objectives of course-unit (description of 2-3 lines) (sample unit):
The course gives an overview of cognitive processes in communication. It tackles the question of
production and processing of communication act and social cognition processes that take part in different
fields of communication.
 The topics and detailed syllabus of the factual content of the course-unit in a weekly breakdown
(sample unit):
1. week: Attribution
2. week: Social
cognition: making sense of others. Impression formation and schema
3. week: Message production
4. week: Message processing
5. week: Intersubjectivity
6. week: Cognitive processes in audience decision making
7. week: Heuristics and biases in audience decision making
8. week: Person perception in audience decision making
9. week: Emotions in audience decision making
10. week: Cognitive processes in media use 1
11. week: Cognitive processes in media use 1
12. week: revision
Detailed description of the methods applied to evaluate and grade student performance at a lecture:
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Option to take a preliminary exam the last week of term-time
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Written exam
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Oral exam
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Complex exam (written and oral)
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Details:
Other
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Reading material necessary to complete the course-unit:
Charles R. Berger & Nicholas A. Palomares (2011) Knowledge Structures and
Social Interaction pp. 169-199. In Mark L. Knapp, John A. Daly (eds.) The SAGE
Handbook of Interpersonal Communication. Fourth Edition. Sage Publications.
Susan R. Fussell, Roger J. Kreuz (1998) Social and Cognitive Approaches to
Interpersonal Communication. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Richard Jackson Harris (2009) A Cognitive Psychology of Mass Communication
5th Edition. Routledge
Bara, B. G. (2010). Cognitive Pragmatics: The Mental Processes of
Communication Cambridge: MIT Press chapter 2. Tools for communicating,4.
Generation and comprehension of communication acts
Susan T. Fiske (2004) Social beings: core social motives by. John Wiley and
Sons. Chapter 3. Attribution or ordinary personology. Figuring out why people do
what they do , Chapter 4. Social cognition: making sense of others. Impression
formation and schema
Tirassa, M., Bosco, F.M. (2008) On the nature and role of intersubjectivity in
human communication. In 81-95. In Enacting intersubjectivity. A Cognitive and
social perspective on the study of interactions
F. Morganti, A. Carassa, G.Riva (eds.) Amsterdam. IOS Press.
Mildner, V. (2010) The Cognitive Neuroscience of Human Communication.
Chapter 8. Speeach and language, 161-247. New York. LEA.Taylor&Francis
Group.