Interviewing Skills

Catalog description

This course is designed to facilitate basic mastery of core communication skills (micro skills) necessary to build meaningful and effective helping relationships. Students will need to think, be creative, and practice in order to transfer the micro skills they learn to outside the classroom. Rehabilitation Science is an applied program of study. RS 3204 is a prerequisite methods course which prepares students for field placement activities such interviewing and interpersonal communication, and geared for students who plan on providing direct client/patient services in their future careers and/or for all students who have an interest in helping and/or want to improve their interpersonal communication skills. This course is intended to challenge students to increase their self-awareness, sensitivity, and competence to communicate in authentic and sensitive ways to better connect and communicate with others from diverse backgrounds. In addition, this course will provide an introduction to person-centered counseling theory which will be used as a model throughout this principles (i.e. empathy, unconditional positive regards, and genuineness) of the person-centered approach will be emphasized.