COMMUNICATION PHILOSOPHY & TECHNOLOGY
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Strategic Communication
The Strategic Communication Group (COM) studies the dynamics and consequences of strategic communication related to life science issues. Such studies involve both the deliberate use of communication strategies by organizations that wish to connect to certain audiences, and the everyday communication strategies that people employ to achieve their own ends, often in response to governmental agencies, commercial companies, scientific communities, NGOs or managers in organizations.
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Philosophy
The Philosophy Group (PHI) studies ethical and philosophical issues in relation to the Wageningen domains. The group reflects on normative assumptions and implications of research and social practices concerning food production and consumption, public health, animal welfare and the environment, and aims to contributing to responsible practices and policies in these fields.
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Knowledge, Technology and Innovation
The Knowledge, Technology and Innovation group (KTI) studies processes of social and technical innovation and transformation, with special attention to the communicative and socio-political dynamics involved in the production, exchange, integration and use of scientific and other knowledge. This involves studying technology’s impact on society and the social shaping of technology as two sides of a co-production process, and the analysis of interactions, interventions, design approaches and institutional set-ups relevant to enhancing and supporting innovation processes in society.
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Communication Philosophy and Technology Centre for integrated development CPT is a centre for integrative studies which aims to develop a better understanding of the relations between the life sciences and societal change, and provide a stimulating environment for studying communication, deliberation, technology and international development. Our starting point is that technical issues in agriculture, food, health and ecology are closely connected with social issues, such as human relations, democracy, equity and ethics. In this brochure you will find how CPT contributes to various educational programmes of Wageningen University.
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Communication Sciences Applied Communication Science In Wageningen, life-scientists aim to contribute to solving complex challenges such as climate change, water and energy scarcity, poverty and obesity. Their insights and proposed solutions are frequently subject to heated debate in society. This indicates that addressing problems in life-science domains requires more than information provision and behaviour change campaigns. We also need high quality deliberation, dialogue and reflection.
At CPT
you learn about the different roles that communication and science play in society, and how to build bridges between people with different backgrounds and interests.
Building bridges between people with different interests
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International Development Studies The current globalised world poses important challenges such as poverty, migration, food security, environmental degradation, and unequal access to resources and development opportunities. Scientific knowledge can help solve problems, but it may also aggravate existing inequalities or trigger new tensions. Many innovative solutions that are introduced by scientists or development practitioners, are never implemented because they do not fit the social or ecological context in which they are promoted. This raises questions about how communication is used in the process of developing social and technical innovations.
In CPT courses
you learn how science and technology shape and transform agro-food networks, livelihoods and the environment (and vice versa) to how innovation and development processes may become more inclusive, responsible and democratic.
social consequences of water technology?
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What are the
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Development and Rural Innovation Development challenges such as climate change, lack of clean drinking water, spreading of diseases or degradation of natural resources cannot be solved by technology alone. It also requires changes in the social world: new forms of organisation and collective action, new policies, and new rules and incentive systems. This implies that analysis of development challenges requires integration of knowledge and insights from natural and social science disciplines, as well as recognition of stakeholder perspectives. Such integration is not easily achieved, but requires careful facilitation based on thorough understanding of the dynamics of inter-human processes and communication.
CPT courses offer
insight in such processes, and also enhance more general understanding of how technology changes society and how society shapes technology development. In addition, our courses offer insight in different intervention models, design approaches and institutional set-ups relevant to supporting social and technical innovation.
How can we
motivate people to take precautions against malaria?
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Health and Society The complex health system asks for innovative solutions. Many different parties are involved: citizens, medical professionals, the government, health insurers. Parties do not always agree with each other and people do not change their behaviour easily. How to make sure that technical innovations are picked up by the people they were created for? Why don’t people always make the decisions they know are good for their health? What processes hinder effective communication between health professionals and patients, or between different experts in hospitals?
CPT courses offer
insight in how people talk about health and risks and how they make decisions. You also learn how to design persuasive health campaigns, how to facilitate dialogue, or how to connect the world of science with the world of practice. In addition, courses foster reflection on ethical dilemmas in health promotion and medical work.
The role of
social media
and gaming in health communication
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connect
with its customers?
Management and Consumer Studies Management, Economics and Consumer Studies Companies constantly communicate with consumers through marketing. In the 21st century, we can no longer speak of oneway communication: through social media, consumers interact with companies and also with one another about products they might or might not want to use. In these multiple stakeholder networks, all parties influence one another.
With CPT
you can learn to understand how people’s perceptions about products and organisations are formed and utilized in networks of communication, and how this shapes societal outcomes. We also offer room for ethical reflection on both consumption and the use of persuasive and other communication strategies to influencing behaviour.
Environmental Sciences Planet Earth’s population of seven billion people poses an enormous challenge. How can we keep our environment healthy? New environmentally friendly technologies and production systems are often confronted with resistance by dominant players, who have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo. Therefore we need to combine the natural, technological and social sciences for finding innovative methods and sustainable solutions.
CPT offers courses
in which you learn about the dynamics of social and technical change, and the roles that communication and ethical deliberation may play in fostering responsible research and innovation. This includes insight on how to build bridges between people with different backgrounds and interests, and how to connect the natural, technological and social world.
How can we influence
people’s behaviour towards waste?
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Tourism
The societal importance of the tourism phenomenon has grown significantly in recent decades and its contribution to the global economy is well documented. But tourism is also closely linked to major global changes in culture, politics, technology and the environment. How does tourism affect the quality of life and well-being of individuals and regions? What is its role in community, regional and urban development? In what way do tourist activities affect the environment of travel destinations and influence cultures worldwide? What is the relation with global transformations such as changing consumer behaviour, economic developments, climate change, epidemics, or acts of terrorism?
CPT offers courses
that give you insight in how tourism organisations may stay in tune with their ever changing environment, and in the processes at work in cross-cultural communication. In addition, courses offer space to reflect on ethical dimensions of international tourism.
Joint degree with NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences
economic crisis How does the
affect tourism?
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How do people use
self-regulation strategies in a tempting food environment?
Nutrition and Health Every day, people encounter an enormous amount of information about the health aspects of foods and dietary patterns. TV, friends, magazines and diet bestsellers tell us what we should and shouldn’t eat. Many people struggle with questions such as ‘What is healthy food?’ and ‘How to resist the temptation of unhealthy food?’
CPT offers courses
that teach you how to understand the way people make decisions, how the social environment influences food choice, how people perceive risks, how persuasive health campaigns can be designed, and what urgent ethical problems in relation to nutrition and health exist.
Organic Agriculture We study agriculture as ‘something that people do and make’, individually or organised in a group, often – but not always - with the use of tools and machines. In CPT we like you to explore if such an angle to agriculture makes you think differently about agriculture, researchers and farmers, the market and the consumers. How can we bridge the gap between laboratories, experimental fields, farmers’ fields, markets and policy arenas? And how do those activities feed society? Many agricultural and food topics are related with (fair-trade) markets, consumers and communication.
CPT offers
a variety of courses that can help you to explore broader questions you have about the role of organic agriculture in this world, and what you can contribute. You can also find topics around the ethics of (organic) agriculture and food consumption and on how qualitative research (like interviewing researchers, farmers, consumers and other actors in society) can become part of your MSc research project.
What are farmers’ motivations for shifting towards
organic farming?
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How does communication shape
change and innovation in life science domains?
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Life Sciences For finding innovative methods and sustainable solutions to the life science challenges in the world, we need to combine the natural, technological and social sciences. That is not so easy, because parties involved do not always agree with each other and people don’t easily change their behaviour. How can we connect the world of science with the world of practice? How can we facilitate constructive dialogues between people with different backgrounds and interests?
CPT offers courses
that teach you how to connect the natural, technological and social world. You can also find topics around ethical dilemmas and on how qualitative research (like interviewing researchers, farmers, consumers and other actors in society) can become part of your MSc research project.
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PERIOD 1 MORNING Introduction to Strategic Communication
This course offers a broad overview of the most important theories and insights about strategic communication in the context of change, illustrated by concrete strategic problems relating to the life sciences. In an essay, you apply the theories and insights to a topic of your own choice. NOELLE AARTS | CPT-12306
Introduction to Technology, Agro-ecology and Development
methods, techniques and tools that are relevant for interdisciplinary communication research in a life-science context. You become acquainted with selected qualitative and quantitative approaches to interdisciplinary communication research. Exemplary cases of research practice and practical exercises (individual and group) support an active learning process. BOB MULDER | CPT-25306
PERIOD 1 AFTERNOON
This course offers an introduction to theories and methodologies that conceptualise the interaction between science, technology and society, with a focus on agricultural and ecological processes.
Professional Ethics
Introduction to Communication and Innovation Studies
LEON PIJNENBURG | CPT-65000
CONNY ALMEKINDERS | CPT-21304
This advanced introductory course describes how and why our thinking about the role of communication in processes of individual and collective change has evolved historically. We touch on strategies such as advisory communication, persuasion, participatory innovation development and the facilitation of societal learning and conflict management. CEES LEEUWIS | CPT-23804
Research Methods for Communication Sciences (new course)
The course focuses on strategies, methodologies,
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This course offers basic insights into moral and ethical reasoning. You learn to apply these insights using a three stage scheme for moral reasoning, and write a paper discussing a concrete ethical problem that you could meet as a professional.
Introduction Philosophy of Science
This course provides basic insights into recent developments within the philosophy of science and the philosophy of technology. With a focus on the relation between sciencetechnology and society, different views on science and on technology are discussed. LEON PIJNENBURG | CPT-65100
Philosophy of Science I
from the perspective of Christian philosophy In our postmodern culture, science is often considered to be neutral, objective in its presentation of reality. Is that correct? This course helps you to reflect on this and helps you to get a better understanding of the strengths and limits of the scientific approach to reality. HENK JOCHEMSEN | CPT-94303
PERIOD 1 WHOLE DAY Interdisciplinary Approaches in Communication, Health and Life Sciences (new course)
This Master introduction course addresses the central issues in communication and health and society programmes. After an introduction to system thinking and the philosophy of science and ethics, the course presents specific health and environmental issues from various inter- and transdisciplinary research perspectives. You apply a transdisciplinary research approach in a real-life case of the bio-economy or food and health transitions. ANNEMARIE VAN PAASSEN | CPT-36312
PERIOD 2 MORNING Food Ethics
This course introduces you to various ethical problems in relation to food and food production, to the core values and concepts that are central in these problems and to normative ethical theories that can help to clarify conflicts. You develop the basic skills that are needed to deal with ethical problems in relation to food in your future career and write a paper on an ethical problem about food practices or policies (also period 5 in the morning). MARCEL VERWEIJ | CPT-20803
Communication and Persuasion
This course deals with basic principles of persuasion and social influence from a socialpsychological perspective. You apply theoretical knowledge about communication and persuasion in designing your own persuasive campaign. ANNE MARIKE LOKHORST | CPT-23306
LAURENS KLERKX, BARBARA VAN MIERLO | CPT22806
PERIOD 2 AFTERNOON Professional Ethics for Communication Specialists
change, ranging from information deficit and social psychological theories to more sociological and deliberative, practice-based approaches. In case study-oriented assignments, you learn to evaluate different strategies to promote environmental behaviour change in the delivery of environmental policymaking. PHIL MACNAGHTEN | CPT-22306
Advanced Communication Science
This course explores the latest developments in the field of communication science. It includes topics like framing in conflicts, monitoring system innovation and participation mediated by filming. The programme concentrates on processes of innovation and social change and the role of communication therein.
BARBARA VAN MIERLO, PETER FEINDT | CPT-33806
This course focuses on ethical dilemmas of science communication and the degree of openness about (financial, professional and personal) conflicts of interest. Communication will be discussed in relation to argumentation and public debate. Ethical dilemmas of science communication are illustrated by debates on global environmental change.
Global Change and Global Ethics
Communication Theory
LEON PIJNENBURG, HENK VAN DEN BELT |
LEON PIJNENBURG | CPT-11303
This course offers a survey of communication theories. The emphasis is on interpersonal communication, public forms of communication and the broad sociological functioning of old and new communication and information technologies and processes. RICO LIE | CPT-12806
Environmental Communication and Innovation
This course introduces students to theories of environmental communication and behaviour
Today we live in a globalised world, as testified by the worldwide financial crisis and the consequences of global warming and biodiversity loss. The question: who has to bear the burdens of these on-going changes and who is allowed to benefit from them? What about ‘human rights’ and ‘development’? Can we formulate a new global ethics? CPT-50806
Philosophy of Science I
from the perspective of Christian philosophy In our postmodern culture, science is often considered to be neutral, objective in its presentation of reality. Is that correct? This course helps you to reflect on this and helps you to get a better understanding of the strengths and limits of the scientific approach to reality. HENK JOCHEMSEN | CPT-94303
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This course introduces recent theoretical insights from innovation theory and presents existing efforts and approaches for inter-disciplinary design. In a cross-disciplinary team, you make a socialtechnical problem analysis around a topic of your choosing, and develop design criteria, research agendas and/or process designs as early steps in a possible innovation trajectory (also period 5 in the afternoon).
COURSES
Innovation Management and Transdisciplinary Design
Philosophy of Science and Ethics
General introduction to the philosophy of science and ethics. During the meetings, a step-by-step ethical manual will be discussed and applied, using concrete examples. You choose an example that you ethically analyse and discuss in a paper, using the ethical manual as your point of departure. LEON PIJNENBURG | CPT-10803
PERIOD 3 AFTERNOON Communication and Technology
This course, designed for biotechnology students, provides an introduction to the role of communication in students’ future working domain. Theories about communication and applications of these theories to biotechnology are presented. You apply this knowledge to innovative biotechnology applications and design a simple communication strategy. PETER FEINDT | CPT-24803
PERIOD 3 WHOLE DAY Investigating Knowledge
This course offers insight into how knowledge ‘operates’ in situations where people and organisations with different backgrounds have to communicate together, shape and implement social and technical change, and define appropriate policies for change. You learn how to
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analyse a particular case using multiple concepts in an integrated conceptual framework.
chair (part 2 in period 5 in the afternoon).
CPT-31806
PERIOD 4 WHOLE DAY
HARRO MAAT, SEVERINE VAN BOMMEL |
Communication and Organisations
Organisations constantly interact to stay in tune with their environments. In this course, we take up the questions of the why and the how of organisations’ external and internal communication, zooming in on key themes and challenges. In a group case study, you put theory into practice in a real-life example. MARGIT VAN WESSEL | CPT-35306
Facilitating Interactive Processes
To deal with the complexity of rural development, social welfare and public health problems, standardised learning processes often prove inadequate. This course aims to equip ‘new’ professionals with facilitation skills and knowledge. Through interactive lecturing, group work, case studies, presentations and role plays, the course enhances your capacity to translate conceptual ideas into actual intervention practice. ANNEMARIE VAN PAASSEN, CONNY ALMEKINDERS | CPT-60306
PERIOD 4 AFTERNOON Christian Philosophy (part 1)
In this time of globalisation, people from different cultures meet on a scale as never before in history. In this course, a number of main currents of philosophical approaches to the world and to life (Islamic, African, Indian and Chinese, and possibly European antique philosophy) are presented and brought into a dialogue with Reformation philosophy as represented by this
HENK JOCHEMSEN | CPT-93803
Risk Communication
This intensive course provides insight into theoretical and practical strategic matters of risk communication. Special attention is given to the life sciences and life-science technologies such as biotechnology, genomics and (bio-) nanotechnology. You develop a small field survey on the topic of a particular risk. MARIJN POORTVLIET | CPT-24306
Social Justice, Technology and Development
This course deals with theories and concrete situations in which social justice issues are intertwined with technological change. Notions from political philosophy, science and technology studies, development studies, sociology and anthropology are used to analyse inequality, poverty, power in social transformations and representations of injustice. KEES JANSEN | CPT-30806
Intercultural Communication
This course offers a survey of theories and issues about communication across cultural borders. The course explores areas of interest such as: changing identities; religions; gender issues; social and family issues; the existence of different worldviews; the role of the mass media; individualism vs. collectivism; the role of language; time and space across cultures; the role of culture in international development; multicultural healthcare. RICO LIE | CPT-35806
PERIOD 5 MORNING Technology, Development and Natural Resources
The central focus of this course is the interactions between society, technology and natural resources. The course focuses on the practical challenges, problems and solutions of these interactions, as well as the understanding of these interactions, using a variety of concepts, theories and approaches. You write an essay on at least one of the core issues of the course. HARRO MAAT, SIETZE VELLEMA | CPT-11806
Food Ethics
This course introduces you to various ethical problems in relation to food and food production, to the core values and concepts that are central in these problems and to normative ethical theories that can help to clarify conflicts. You develop the basic skills that are needed to deal with ethical problems in relation to food in your future career and write a paper on an ethical problem about food practices or policies (also period 1 in the morning). MARCEL VERWEIJ | CPT-20803
Life Sciences voor Communication Scientists (new course)
This course introduces communication students to key concepts and research problems in the life sciences. It concentrates on six domains: health, food, urbanisation, climate change, natural resource management, and sustainability in relation to food and fibre production. TO BE ANNOUNCED | CPT-14306
Health Communication and Innovation This course focuses on communication in the context of efforts to prevent diseases, promote healthy practices, and/or induce changes in
physical, social and institutional environments that influence human health. You apply the theoretical notions in the analysis of an existing health communication intervention. EMELY DE VET | CPT-32306
Research for Effective Communication
The development of an individual research proposal in the area of communication for intervention is a central activity in this course. You develop a problem statement and research questions, learn to find and use literature, develop a conceptual and theoretical framework, and take decisions about research approach, design and methodology. SEVERINE VAN BOMMEL | CPT-34806
PERIOD 5 AFTERNOON Biology and Philosophy
Not all questions concerning biology have definite answers, some are more open. In this course, we focus on open questions in two areas: philosophy of science and ethics. During the exploration of philosophical questions concerning biology, you will learn theoretical approaches as well as some practical skills that help to deal with them constructively. COR VAN DER WEELE | CPT-10303
Communication and Policymaking
This course provides you with theory and practical experiences through which you learn to describe and analyse the dynamics and functions of political communication in formal settings, different political publics and grassroots movements; and to appreciate the challenges and opportunities of political communication for the project of democracy. MARGIT VAN WESSEL | CPT-21806
Researching Technology and Development This course offers a social-science perspective on making socio-technical practices and transformations of livelihoods or agri-food networks amenable to empirical analysis. It investigates technology use as a human activity, and it traces societal processes constituting technical change. The course prepares students for researching interactions between bio-material and social dimensions of development. SIETZE VELLEMA | CPT-31306
Change, Inter-human Processes and Communication
In this course, we try to understand change and change management by analysing how people actually communicate when they are confronted with new developments. Starting from a complexity approach, we focus on a range of inter-human processes as they emerge in interpersonal communication. In a paper, you analyse a real-life issue from a dynamic communication perspective. NOELLE AARTS | CPT-32806
Communication Strategies in Everyday Life
This course offers insights into recent developments in the study of everyday talk (discursive psychology) and the application of these ideas to current communication practices. The focus is on the different ways in which people influence one another as part of their daily routine as well as on how practitioners can learn from these methods. HEDWIG TE MOLDER | CPT-33306
Life-Science Communication and Learning in the Digital Age
This course investigates how the digital age affects the communication between scientists and societal audiences, and the way people learn about contested and ill-defined issues relating to environment,
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Ethics and Social Science
This course focuses on ethical problems and dilemmas with which social scientists are likely to be confronted in the course of their professional careers, either as researcher or as policy advisor. You write a paper on an ethical problem preferably related to your own field of social science (also period 6 in the morning). HENK VAN DEN BELT | CPT-20303
Innovation Management and Cross-Disciplinary Design
This course introduces recent theoretical insights from innovation theory and presents existing efforts and approaches for inter-disciplinary design. In a cross-disciplinary team, you make a social-technical problem analysis around a topic of your choosing, and develop design criteria, research agendas and/or process designs as early steps in a possible innovation trajectory (also period 2 in the morning). LAURENS KLERKX, BARBARA VAN MIERLO | CPT-22806
Christian Philosophy (part 2)
In this time of globalisation, people from different cultures meet on a scale as never before in history. In this course, a number of main currents of philosophical approaches to
the world and to life (Islamic, African, Indian and Chinese, and possibly European antique philosophy) are presented and brought into a dialogue with Reformation philosophy as represented by this chair (part 1 in period 4 WD). HENK JOCHEMSEN | CPT-93803
Sociology of Migration and Multi-Ethnic Societies
The course provides insight into the causes, motives and consequences of human relocation, and into the way migration is connected to settlement, as point of departure or destination. Through examples and cases, practical causes and implications of migration are presented and discussed. HARRO MAAT | CPT-52806
PERIOD 6 MORNING Methods for Effective Communication
In this course, you learn to develop, design and evaluate communicative interventions in a scientifically sound manner. You write a communication plan tailored to a specific real-life situation. MIEKE MUIJRES | CPT-13306
Ethics and Social Science
This course focuses on ethical problems and dilemmas with which social scientists are likely to be confronted in the course of their professional careers, either as researcher or as policy advisor. You write a paper on an ethical problem preferably related to your own field of social science (also period 5 in the afternoon). HENK VAN DEN BELT | CPT-20303
PERIOD 6 AFTERNOON Ethics, Health and Society
In this course, key ethical concepts, values and approaches that are central for health and society are explored and applied. You learn to analyse the argumentative structure of texts, engage in ethical case discussions with the help of a deliberation format analysis, and write a short essay about a moral problem in public healthcare. MARCEL VERWEIJ | CPT-13806
Environmental Philosophy and Ecological Restoration
This course presents a systematic overview of the main cognitive, normative and expressive issues within the field of environmental philosophy, and zooms in on two protracted and heated debates within environmental philosophy: about the value of ecological restoration and about the moral status of native and exotic plant and animal species within ecological restoration projects. BERNICE BOVENKERK, BART GREMMEN | CPT50306
Selective Attention and Ethics
Philosophy from a humanist perspective We live among an overload of information. How to deal with that is an increasing challenge, since our attention is limited and therefore inevitably selective. Using perspectives from science, philosophy and art, this course teaches you to recognise and explain patterns, practices, challenges and mechanisms of selective attention. You learn to reflect on selective attention from moral points of view, and to imagine and devise ways to investigate attention in practice. COR VAN DER WEELE | CPT-94803
BACHELOR MINORS IN COMMUNICATION
COMMUNICATION FOR CHANGE
COMMUNICATION, RESEARCH AND PRACTICE
COMMUNICATION, HEALTH AND SOCIETY
Introduction to Strategic Communication
Risk Communication
Introduction to Strategic Communication
CPT-12306 | PERIOD 1 MORNING RESTRICTED OPTIONAL
CPT-24306 | PERIOD 4 WHOLE DAY COMPULSORY
Social Psychology
Research for Effective Communication
RESTRICTED OPTIONAL
COMPULSORY
Communication Theory
Innovation Management and Cross-disciplinary Design
MCB-10806 | PERIOD 1 AFTERNOON
CPT-12806 | PERIOD 2 AFTERNOON RESTRICTED OPTIONAL
Communication and Persuasion CPT-23306 | PERIOD 2 MORNING COMPULSORY
Communication and Organisations
CPT-35306 | PERIOD 3 WHOLE DAY COMPULSORY
CPT-34806 | PERIOD 5 MORNING
CPT-22806 | PERIOD 5 AFTERNOON
CPT-12306 | PERIOD 1 MORNING COMPULSORY
Environmental Assets for Health HSO-20306 | PERIOD 2 MORNING COMPULSORY
Health Psychology
COMPULSORY
HSO-20806 | PERIOD 3 WHOLE DAY COMPULSORY
Methods for Effective Communication
Introduction to Epidemiology and Public Health
CPT-13306 | PERIOD 6 MORNING COMPULSORY
HNE-24806 | PERIOD 1 AFTERNOON RESTRICTED OPTIONAL
Social Psychology
MCB-10806 | PERIOD 1 AFTERNOON RESTRICTED OPTIONAL
Communication Theory CPT-12806 | PERIOD 2 AFTERNOON RESTRICTED OPTIONAL
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