The aim of this course is to develop student teachers verbal and nonverbal communication skills and help them to comprehend interpersonal personal communication processes, problem solving abilities and communication conflicts. The course also aims to explain interaction between culture and communication, psycho-linguistic structures to student teachers and to develop their emphatic thinking skills.

Definition and classification of interpersonal relationships; theoretical approaches to interpersonal relations (psychoanalytic, attachment, contemporary theories); theoretical approaches to interpersonal relationships (social, psychological, cognitive theories); interpersonal relations as a developmental process (infancy and childhood, adolescence and adulthood); factors affecting interpersonal relationships; gender, gender roles and interpersonal relationships; self-adaptation and self-disclosure in interpersonal relationships; communication and communication errors; effective communication skills; interpersonal problems, conflict and conflict resolution approaches; intercultural diversity in terms of human relationships.