Final reflection on learning

This class is based on the professionalism communication. We study everything which has a relation with communication. For example, we went through how to interpret nonverbal communication or how to write a proposal.

I think it is a great course which helped me to improve my English expression. We did some presentations. Giving a presentation in another language than in your mother tongue is quite difficult because first, you feel stress and secondly, it is more difficult to improvise your speech in another language. But it was a good exercise which gathers everything that we saw during this class such as, the body language, the way to express something by using the tone’s voice or some pauses for example. Indeed, we noticed that the way of using the voice can change a meaning of a sentence. The voice and the body language are powerful ways of communication. After presentations, students give their feedbacks. The feedbacks are useful to improve and understand what is bad or what could be better. Students are all volunteers and the teacher also invites us to participate which make the class dynamic and it helps to know each other.

We also worked on resume and cover letters. These works are very useful and interesting for our future. We had feedbacks from the teacher which is very good and help us to improve our papers. We also worked on interviews and the thing to do or not to do. We had training during the class. It was a good exercise to test our improvisation skill and to prepare us to our next interviews.

Above the study side, this course was a pleasant and interesting moment. It was easy to meet local students, to talk with them since we work together. I enjoy going in this class which was different from the other engineering class that I had. I will miss the dynamic and the ambiance of this class. I feel sad that it already the end of this semester. I will miss NUS and the people that I met and Singapore.