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Module 5.1

Communicate effectively with a variety of audiences regarding forest resource issues

Module 5.1 will enhance students’ leadership skills through learning activities that focus on communication skills. The aim is for students to learn approaches to analyze and communicate solutions to complex resource issues clearly so to be able to advise a wide spectrum of stakeholders, senior managers, and clients of all types. Key topics include professional and technical report writing and making effective presentations.

Module Objectives

  • Demonstrate an ability to communicate resource information to a diverse range of audiences;
  • Demonstrate a range of effective listening skills;
  • Use formal reports to present data, information, and opinions, and
  • Prepare and deliver a presentation that incorporates concepts and terminology of natural resources

Module Schedule

This course involves a combination of recorded lectures, readings, assignments and participation in semi-synchronous online discussion forums and synchronous tutorials with instructors and other participants over an 8-week period.

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Course Content

Getting Started

  • Getting Started

Week 1

  • Introductory Lecture

  • Core Lecture 1: Indigenous perspectives and traditional knowledge

  • Readings

Week 2

  • Core Lecture 2: Ontario’s Far North

  • Core Lecture 3: Writing data papers

  • Supplementary Lecture (not mandatory)

  • Assignment 1 (Part 1)

  • Discussion Forum 5.1a

Week 3

  • Online tutorial

  • Assignment #1 (Part 1) Submission

Week 4

  • Assignment #1 (Part 2)

  • Discussion Forum 5.1b

Week 5

  • Assignment #1 (Part 2) Submission

  • Assignment #2

Week 6

  • Assignment #2 Proposal Submission

    Please submit your proposal for Assignment #2

Week 7

  • Online tutorial

    The online tutorial will give students the opportunity to connect with their instructors and peers to discuss content to-date, answer questions and foster conversations surrounding course materials, and discuss upcoming assignments. In this particular tutorial, the majority of time will be allocated towards student presentations.

Week 8

  • Assignment #2 Submission