BSc minor Communication for Change (WUCCH)

Continue to an overview of the courses in this minor

After a general introduction, the minor offers basic insight in social psychological mechanisms and offers specialised courses to zoom in on communication and individual change, and on communication and organisational change.

Courses address the role of communication in the process of individual and collective problem solving and change. Courses that are more focused on the individual address psychological mechanisms that shape human behaviour, and touches on issues such as self-perception, prejudice, pro-social behaviour, (group) conflict, and interpersonal behaviour. Other courses are more focused on collective problem solving and change, and look at the factors that influence both external and internal communication. Here the emphasis is on the importance and challenge of linking external communication to processes of internal communication and organisational change.

In their future work, all students with a life sciences or social sciences background can benefit from understanding human communication processes in relation to individual and organisational problem solving and change. This BSc minor is a programme minor.

Learning Outcomes

After successful completion of this minor students are expected to be able to:

• explain the basic theories regarding human communication and change;
• understand the potential and limitations of different types and forms of communicative intervention;
• explain the basic social psychological mechanisms that are relevant to understanding individual and collective behaviour;
• understand the social psychological mechanisms through which communication can influence perceptions, attitudes, intentions and individual behaviour;
• analyse the role of (and relations between) external and internal communication in organisations;
• translate and apply these insights to practical problem situations in their own domain of study.

Target group

This minor is interesting for students from a broad range of BSc programmes.

Overlapping courses or content with

BBC–B Management and Consumer Studies – Major B Consumer Studies BCW Communication Sciences BGM Health and Society

Language

Part English and part Dutch 

Semester

First semester (period 1, 2 and 3)

Programme or thematic

Programme minor