Curriculum

On this course students will learn more about presentation techniques, communication and information. The course is primarily practical and includes spoken and written exercises. Communicating science concerns paring down the points of information, removing the unimportant parts and simplifying in a correct manner. In addition, students learn more about science and also about the questions that science cannot answer.¶

Content

The following elements are included in the course Research Communication:

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* Popular science

The task of journalism is to describe and examine the world, and in so doing make it comprehensible to ordinary people. How is this done? From first thoughts to finished article? What can a researcher learn from the way a scientific journalist works? This course is aimed at training students' abilities to identify and detach the most important message and to present it in a manner that is tasteful, correct and interesting to the reader.

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* Information

Communicating science to different target groups is trained via various exercises. What role does communication play within universities, government agencies and in business? How are external communications managed? Who are the recipients?

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* Exercises

Practical exercises in communicating popular science to different target groups are included in all course elements, e.g. monitoring and writing about the Nobel presentation of a Nobel Laureate.

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