Purposive
Communication is a three unit course that develops student communicative
competence and their cultural and intercultural awareness through multi-modal
task that provide them opportunities for communicating effectively and
appropriately to a multicultural audience in a local or global context. It
equips students with tools for critical evaluation of a variety of texts and
focuses on the power of language and the impact of images to emphasize the
importance of conveying messages responsibly. The knowledge skills, and
insights that students gain from this course may be used in their academic
endeavors, their chosen disciplines and their future careers as they compose
and produce relevant oral, written audio-visual and/or web-based output for
various purposes.
- Teacher: Juhana Gumama
- Teacher: Ofelia Nuñez- Bulingking