My studies

My studies include many different aspects of communication, but it's not only about that! The main three themes of my courses, at least to me, seem to be:

Different types of courses

1. Communication types
2. Research and research elements
3. Linguistics

Communication types

Communication types include courses such as:

1. Intercultural Communication
2. Persuasive Communication
3. Multimodal Communication
4. Corporate and Organizational Communication

Research courses

Meanwhile research courses are courses that I see as courses that either teach us how to do research, what types of research there are and courses that make us do our own research, like with the course Questionnaire and Interview Design where we all collaborated to research social cohension in a neighbourhood in Groningen. Another course that teaches us about an aspect of research was Statistics I, where we were taught how to work with our data.

Linguistics

Finally, my least favourite category of courses are linguistical courses, courses that focus on language and it's meaning. These include:

1. Text Analysis I & II
2. Pragmatics
3. Language Optimazation

Personally, I really dislike these courses, and they are most definitely not the reason why I chose CIS.