Language and Non Verbal Communication

This course provides practical tools to help you recognise, interpret, and use non-verbal communication effectively. Over four weeks, you’ll explore how eye gaze, facial expressions, and hand gestures shape attention, interaction, and meaning.

Through short lectures, video demonstrations, readings, and experiential tasks, you’ll develop skills you can apply to improve communication in personal or professional settings. Online quizzes and discussion boards will help you consolidate your learning.

Although fully online and asynchronous, the course is designed to be interactive, with regular opportunities to apply your knowledge.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this short course, learners will be able to:

  • Explain the communicative role of faces
  • Understand how faces and gaze capture attention
  • Interpret eye movements and contact
  • Challenge myths about gaze aversion
  • Recognise and classify gesture types
  • Explain how gestures relate to language and memory
  • Demonstrate how non-verbal cues support communication
  • Create a plan to apply this knowledge in your own context

    Course Agenda

    Topics of the learning include:

  • Introduction to Language and Non-Verbal Communication
  • Hand Gestures in Communication
  • Faces in Human Interaction and Psychology
  • Impact of Eye Gaze on Cognition and Interaction

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