Introduction to Nonverbal Communication
1.1 Understanding the nature of nonverbal communication
1.2 The importance of nonverbal communication
1.3 Nonverbal communication in daily life

Facial Expressions
2.1 Facial expressions and emotion, interaction management, and personality
judgment
2.2 Physiology of the face, facial feedback and social impact
2.3 Emotion expression across cultures

Eye Behaviours
3.1 Defining eye behaviors
3.2 Gaze, mutual gaze, and functions of gazing
3.3 Gazing patterns, pupil dilation, and psychopathology

Bodily Communication
4.1 Defining bodily communication
4.2 Gestures, posture, and speech
4.3 Body movements / body language

Proxemic Communication
5.1 Territory and personal space
5.2 Small groups and territorial behavior
5.3 Marking territory and space

Tactile/Kinesthetic/Haptics Communication
6.1 Defining touch communication
6.2 Understanding touching behaviors
6.3 The impact of touch and interpersonal touch

Personal Appearance
7.1 Understanding the importance of personal appearance
7.2 Physical characteristics: attractiveness and communication
7.3 Clothes and the body

Vocalic Communication
8.1 Vocal cues and group perception, personality, and paralanguage
8.2 Vocal cues and taking turns, hesitation, persuasion and emotions
8.3 Paralanguage

Chronemic, Olfactics, Gustatory
9.1 Understanding nonverbal of time
9.2 Nonverbal of smell
9.3 Nonverbal of taste

Selling Yourself Nonverbally: Politics and Sales
10.1 Understanding nonverbal dominance, power, and status cues
10.2 NVC and daily interaction- intimacy and status
10.3 Using NVC to persuade

Detecting Deception
11.1 Managing interactions and identity, deception
11.2 Identifying nonverbal cues associated with deception
11.3 Interpersonal Deception Theory; Detecting Deception

Nonverbal Determinants of Successful Interviews
12.1 The importance of eye contact, body language, voice, appearance
12.2 Impression Management
12.3 Building rapport

Gender Interaction in Nonverbal Context
13.1 Understanding male and female nonverbal cues
13.2 Flirting, Intimacy & Relationships

Special Nonverbal Contexts
14.1 Matching and mirroring
14.2 Movable objects and environment- how architecture affects our NVC
14.3 The effects of environment, surroundings and our reactions

Q1 : What is Nonverbal Communication?
A1 : Nonverbal communication (NVC) is the transmission of messages or signals through a nonverbal platform such as eye contact, facial expressions, gestures, posture, and body language. It includes the use of social cues, kinesics, distance (proxemics) and physical environments/appearance, of voice (paralanguage) and of touch (haptics).[1] It can also include the use of time (chronemics) and eye contact and the actions of looking while talking and listening, frequency of glances, patterns of fixation, pupil dilation, and blink rate (oculesics).

Q2 : Which faculty offers the Nonverbal Communication course?
A2 : The Nonverbal Communication course is also offered as a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) by the Faculty of Communication and Media Studies. The course code is INC530 - Nonverbal Communication.

Q3 : What are the entry requirements to the MOOC INC530 - Nonverbal Communication?
A3 : There are no entry requirements to the MOOC INC530 - Nonverbal Communication. Nevertheless, it is encouraged for students to have a basic understanding of the foundation of communication and media studies.

Q4 : What are the approaches in INC530 - Nonverbal Communication?
A4 : The INC530 - Nonverbal Communication approaches for MOOC are as follows: (1) Lectures (2) Problem-based learning (3) Simulation activity (4) Work-based learning