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  • People Smart

    People Smart for Ministry (3 credits)

    Instructor: Henry Reyenga

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    Overview: This course discusses people's intelligence for life and ministry. This class will help you identify the common principles for effective communication and how to improve your effectiveness with People. This course will also help you minister to people better as you learn to hear what they are saying. This course is designed for you to learn how to express your love in ways that people will understand. 


    Course Outcomes:

    1. Learn the basics of communication, such as attentive listening and wise speaking.
    2. Learn best practices for elements of communication such as first impressions, presentation, starting a conversation, and keeping a conversation going.
    3. Learn elements from communication theory that the academic business community has identified as crucial for effective enterprise with an application for ministry.
    4. Learn how to conduct interviews or be interviewed.
    5. Use humor to bless others and become a person who is more fun and accessible.
    6. Ability to deal with troublemakers, such as "dragons in a church."
    7. Develop positive people skills and communication habits.



    Assignments:

    1. View all online lectures and read all the articles for each unit. CLI computer tracks whether you do this.
    2. Take the online quiz for each unit. You will have 45 minutes to answer 20 multiple-choice questions for each quiz. Once a quiz starts, you must finish it and can't retake it. So be ready ahead of time. Each quiz covers readings and video lectures for that unit. While taking the quiz, you may use your notes and refer to articles and other materials. Tip: First, answer all the questions you know. Then try to look up answers to questions you don't know. When you have entered an answer for every question, submit the quiz for grading before the 45-minute limit.

    Grading Scale:


    A 95-100%   A- 90-94%   B+ 87-89%   B 83-86%   B- 80-82%   C+ 77-79%   C 73-76%   C- 70-72%    D+ 67-69%   D 63-66%   D- 60-62%   F 0-59%


    Your average grade for all assignments in the class must be at least 60%. Otherwise, you will fail the class and will receive no course credit.


    Deadline: You have 180 days to finish the course. Complete all assignments before the final deadline, or you will be automatically unenrolled, and all coursework will be removed. You will have to start over and take the class again to receive credit.


    Accessibility: All videos have slides available with them.