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Office Hours: Surrey 15-760-by arrangement

Tuesday 1:00-4:50 pm Surrey Campus Room 3270

PREREQUISITES

EDUC 323-3

REQUIRED READING

Custom Courseware will be available in the SFU Bookstore

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

This course will focus on the development of basic listening skills and methods to foster human

relationships. These skills are not meant to reflect any one theory of counselling but are seen as

fundamental to the development of helping relationships. Specifically, at the end of the course students

will have had the opportunity to:

a. Increase your awareness of your own natural resources for helping others.

b.

Enable you to understand and demonstrate the appropriate use of a broad repertoire of specific

helping skills.

c. Enable you to more fully understand the interrelationship, between your personality and your

personal functioning and the processes and skills involved in becoming an effective helper.

d. Enable you to investigate more deeply into the reasons why people behave as they do and how to

effectively intervene to help people change.

COURSE CONTENT

The major focus of this course will be on training in the personal use of a variety of active listening

skills. This will be accomplished through an experience/reflection format with opportunities to practice

particular skills and by video recordings of your active listening exchanges. This will then be followed

by constructive feedback from the instructor and fellow students. A formal requirement of this will be

the preparation and presentation of 3 videotapes.

Skill-Learning Papers

At the beginning of the semester each student will prepare a short paper (maximum

5

pages-Times

Roman 12 pt font, double spaced) that assesses your strengths and challenges with respect to

communications and human relations. This paper is due week 2. At the end of the semester, you will

critique your first paper in relation to any changes of perspective. The second critique is due at the end

of term along with your final videotape assignment.

Class Participation/Journal

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Class participation is encouraged and attendance at all sessions is required. Because this is a skill

development course, you will be called upon extensively in class to participate in active listening

practices. Along with your own personal gains in the skill practice area, you will be responsible for your

involvement in a partnership with another student. Hence, your consistent attendance is important for the

practice component of another student In addition to attendance, participation in the class includes the

degree to which you contribute to in-class active listening practice. Therefore, students are required to

keep a journal of in-class experiences as we proceed through the course (beginning with the first class).

This journal will be self-evaluative and reflective allowing you to track your own progress through the

course. There will be no evaluation of the journal.

EVALUATION

1.

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Tape 1 & Critique 1

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Tape 2 & Critique 2 30%

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Tape 3 & Critique 3

45%

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Skill Learning Papers

15%

Further details of the evaluation will be discussed in class.

Students in all Faculty

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Education courses are encouraged to review policies pertaining to

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