Communication scientifique dans le domaine des sciences exactes
[BRTI2203]
[30h] 3 credits
Teacher(s): Pascale Gualtieri(coord.), Joël Saucin
Language: French
Level: Second
Aims
" Will be aware of the importance it is, for a scientist, to be able to accurately communicate research results to fellow colleagues and towards the vulgarization networks (aiming at different target publics)
" Will be familiarized with the different sciences of communication and with its models and fundamental concepts
" Will know the different success and failure factors of communication and will be able to optimize his communication projects
" Will master the specificities of a written scientific communication process
" Will know the principles implemented in communicational writing and will be able to put them into practice and compose a vulgarization article
" Will have discovered - through semiology and visual pragmatism - the characteristics of iconic language, and will be able to use that in order to appropriately illustrate a written document
" Will understand the specificities of oral communication and will be able to set them in practice
" Will master the interactions between texts, images and oral elements in the run of a creation and a presentation of a slideshow-supported communication
Main themes
There is a practical approach the concepts and methods related to the various channels of communication: writing, oral presentation (supported or not by a slideshow), iconic language
Content and teaching methods
" Diffusion of scientific knowledge - from communicating with fellow colleagues to massive vulgarization
" Introduction to the theories of communication
" Principles of scientific writing
" Communicational writing
" Analysis of the language of pictures
" Specificities of oral communication
" Slideshow or "how to succeed in presenting with various supports" (speech, text and pictures)
Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)
- Tool : a course-notes
- Evaluation :
1. composing a vulgarizing text completed by pictures
2. presentation of a scientific act of communication, aimed at non-scientific people, supported by a slideshow.