University of Leeds
- Start Date: 23 Sep, 2024
- 2 weeks
- Study Content: Videos
Improve your listening skills and learn practical strategies for effective listening at university.
Course Fee: Free
Certificate Cost: See Fees and Eligibility
Course Description
This course is made available through the eLearnAfrica and FutureLearn partnership.
Develop active listening skills to help you succeed at university
Listening is a vital literacy skill that helps us to make sense of the world. Despite this, it is rarely taught at schools and university students are often unprepared.
This two-week course will help you to understand the importance of active listening and show you strategies to help you improve your listening skills for academic success.
Understand the process of active listening
You’ll explore listening as a conscious, active and mentally engaging process and understand its value in an academic setting.
Learn how to improve listening skills in an academic setting
Being a university student provides a variety of listening situations from lectures, seminars and tutorials to a drink on campus. On this course, you will explore a model of academic listening, identify which listening skills are required for each academic situation, and learn about the main challenges of effective listening and how to tackle them.
Reflect on the value of intercultural awareness at the university
The campus is a place where people from many cultural and linguistic backgrounds come into contact with each other and interact. This course will make you aware of the importance of intercultural awareness during your academic life and its impact on being a critical listener.
Learn strategies for effective listening in lectures
You’ll then focus on what effective listening is and how to practise it during university lectures. You will understand what listening skills are required for different types of lectures, and what lecturers from a range of disciplines expect students to do.
By the end of the course, you’ll have explored and practised different strategies that support effective listening so you’ll be more prepared to listen successfully whilst at university and later in life.
This course is designed for all university students preparing to begin their studies in the UK as it supports their transition to engaged, critical academic listening. It will support both home and international students in understanding the importance of listening in intercultural communication, which is key for university study.
The course is part of the academic skills collection, designed to improve university students’ academic and study skills. Explore other courses in the academic skills collection offered by the University of Leeds.
Certificate cost may vary. You will be redirected to the host page for cost and payment options.
University of Leeds
As one of the UK’s largest research-based universities, the University of Leeds is a member of the prestigious Russell Group and a centre of excellence for teaching.
Academics at the University of Leeds lead pioneering research that addresses major global challenges, in areas such as energy, water and climate change, human health and wellbeing. The University works in interdisciplinary teams to find innovative solutions to global problems such as poverty, hunger and crime. It strengthens communities through its outreach and public engagement.
The diverse range of FutureLearn courses developed by the University of Leeds will allow the exploration of new and different ways to provide online education. The University wants to reach a global audience, meeting the growing worldwide demand for access to higher education, so that the outstanding knowledge it creates can benefit a wider community.
This institution is available on eLearnAfrica through partnership with FutureLearn.
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