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Communication Skills Module Objectives:

- Students will identify non-verbal cues.
- Students will analyze non-verbal cues to determine the messages they convey.
- Students will demonstrate and apply non-verbal communication in real-life situations.
- Students will evaluate the importance of non-verbal cues to communication.
- Students will identify characteristics of active listening.
- Students will identify and familiarize themselves with verbal and non-verbal
signals important to good listening.
- Students will practice listening techniques and skills.
- Students will learn that critical listening means recognizing and filtering
imprecise communication.
- Students will practice critical listening and analyzing ambiguous messages.
- Students will apply critical listening techniques related to understanding the media.
- Students will discover the power of words.
- Students will recognize that people are responsible for what they say.
- Students will discover that people have the ability to control what they say and how they say it.
- Students will recognize that using words responsibly is part of being an effective communicator.
- Students will explore what makes some communications easy and others difficult.
- Students will develop techniques to communicate their feelings and encourage open dialogue in difficult situations.
- Students will practice communicating in a constructive manner, even when they disagree.