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LS1469 Communicative Leadership for Engineers 3.0 credits

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Application

For course offering

Spring 2024 Start 16 Jan 2024 single courses students

Application code

20038

Headings with content from the Course syllabus LS1469 (Autumn 2023–) are denoted with an asterisk ( )

Content and learning outcomes

Course contents

The course develops the engineer's skills in communicative leadership with tools from leadership theory, negotiation theory and rhetoric. The course focuses on the leader's challenges and how these can be handled with communicative strategies.

The course is given as seminars, with short theoretical lectures and active student participation.

Intended learning outcomes

The general aim of the course is that the engineer should understand and acquire theoretical perspectives on communicative leadership and develop their own ability to communicate and lead in professional contexts.

After passing the course, the student should be able to:

  1. give an account of different perspectives on leadership as well as what characterises various leadership paradigms.
  2. reflect on their own leadership from the perspective of different leadership paradigms.
  3. connect communicative leadership to negotiation, and be able to analyse and plan challenging communication situations with tools related to rhetoric and various negotiation strategies.

Literature and preparations

Specific prerequisites

General entry requirements.

Recommended prerequisites

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Equipment

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Literature

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Examination and completion

If the course is discontinued, students may request to be examined during the following two academic years.

Grading scale

P, F

Examination

  • LEXA - Continuous Assessment, 3.0 credits, grading scale: P, F

Based on recommendation from KTH’s coordinator for disabilities, the examiner will decide how to adapt an examination for students with documented disability.

The examiner may apply another examination format when re-examining individual students.

Other requirements for final grade

75% attendance.

Opportunity to complete the requirements via supplementary examination

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Opportunity to raise an approved grade via renewed examination

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Examiner

Profile picture Ida Pinho

Ethical approach

  • All members of a group are responsible for the group's work.
  • In any assessment, every student shall honestly disclose any help received and sources used.
  • In an oral assessment, every student shall be able to present and answer questions about the entire assignment and solution.

Further information

Course room in Canvas

Registered students find further information about the implementation of the course in the course room in Canvas. A link to the course room can be found under the tab Studies in the Personal menu at the start of the course.

Offered by

ITM/Learning in Engineering Sciences

Main field of study

This course does not belong to any Main field of study.

Education cycle

First cycle

Add-on studies

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Contact

Ida Pinho (pinho@kth.se)

Additional regulations

  • In group projects, all members are responsible for group's work.
  • In examinations, each student should honestly report any help that has been received and sources that have been used.
  • In oral examinations, each student should be able to give an account of the whole assignment and the whole solution.