Khwaja Fareed University of Engineering&

Information Technology

Rahim Yar Khan

Department of Agriculture Engineering
Course Outline

COMMUNICATION SKILLS (3 Credit Hours)

Pre-Requisite:
Course Type:
Theory/Lab: Theory
Program: BS AGEN
Total Lectures: 32
Total Tutorials:
:
Teaching Assistant: Numra Qayyum
Office # XXX Humanities and Social Sciences, KFUEIT, Ext. xxxx
Email: numra.qayyum@kfueit.edu.pk
Office Hours: 08:00am – 04:00 pm (Every Friday)

Course Introduction
This course is to introduce students to the basic concepts of communication Skills
which have immediate relation to their ordinary as well as academic life, and to
sensitize students to the various shades & aspects of communication, to show that it
is not a monolithic whole but something that can be looked at in detail. Serious
theoretical discussions about these aspects have been differed to subsequent studies
of language at comprehension level. The core components of Communication Skills
like will also be introduced through this course.
Sr. No Course Learning Outcomes PLOs Blooms Taxonomy
Students will have basic knowledge and PLO-12
CLO_1 skills of handling a target situation C1(Knowledge)
(Lifelong learning)
They will be able to use their PLO-10
CLO_2 C3(Application)
communicative skills effectively (Communication)
Course Contents
They will be able to analyze and PLO-12
CLO_3 C4(Analysis)
synthesize the ideas and given concepts (Life Long Learning)
What is Communication
Barriers of Communication
Importance of Feedback
Giving Constructive Feedback
Structuring and Evaluating a feedback
Presentation Skills
Formulating a presentation
Questioning Skills
Tools of Communication Importance of Audience and Purpose
Integrated Skills
Information Gap Principal
Cover Letter and Resume
Creative Writing

Mapping of CLOs and PLOs

CLO Assessment Mechanism
Assessment tools CLO_1 CLO_2 CLO_3
Quizzes & Assignments 25% 30% 25%
Presentations 25% 30% 0%
Midterm Exam 25% 20% 25%
Final Exam 25% 20% 50%

Overall Grading Policy

Assessment Items Percentage
Quizzes 5%
Assignments 5%
Class Behavior 5%
Presentation 5%
Midterm Exam 30%
Final Exam 50%

Text and Reference Books

Text books:
 Tara Dixon & Martin O’Hara (2000). Communication SKILLS. Practice-Based
Learning. Practicebasedlearning.org.
 Akmajian, A., Demers, R. A., Farmer, A. K. & Harnish, R. M. (2001).
Linguistics: An Introduction to Language and Communication. (Fourth
edition). Massachusetts: MIT.
 Crystal, D. (1997). The Encyclopedia of Language. Cambridge: CUP.
 Farmer, A. K, & Demers, R. A. (2005). A Linguistics Workbook. M. I. T Press.

Administrative Instruction
 According to institute policy, 75% attendance is mandatory to appear in the final
examination.
 In any case, there will be no retake of (scheduled/surprise) quizzes.
 For queries, kindly follow the office hours in order to avoid any inconvenience.

Lecture Breakdown
Week 1 Introduction to Communication Skills
Types of communication Skills
Week 2 Basic styles of communication Skills
Presentation Skill
Week 3 Structuring a Presentation
Art of Questioning

Week 4 Feed Back, Giving Constructive Feedback, Importance of Feed Back

Week 5 Importance of Feed Back
Week 6 Giving Constructive Feedback
Week 7 The Principles of Communication (7 C’s)

Week 8 Vocabulary

Week 9 MID TERM EXAMINATION

Week 10 Tools of Communication

Week 11 Information gap principle
Week 12 Importance of Audience and purposes
Week 13 Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication
Week 14 Integrated Skills
Week 15 Cover letter & Resume
Week 16 Creative Writing
Week 17 FINAL TERM EXAMINATION