Communication scientifique dans le domaine des sciences exactes
[BRTI2203]
[30h] 3 credits
This course is taught in the 1st semester.
Teacher(s): Pascale Gualtieri, 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
- intends to familiarize participants with the sciences of communicating
- then proposes a practical approach to the concepts and methods related to the various essential channels in communicating scientific research and knowledge : 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
- Principles of communicational writing (scientific vulgarization)
- 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
2. iconic analysis (application of semiology and visual pragmatism concepts)
3. presentation of a communication supported by a slideshow