Spring 2027

Clinical Communication Skills

Clinical Communication Skills provides didactic and experiential training in clinical communication and listening, covering research, theory, and the impact of personal and cultural characteristics in various settings.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Hannah Glenn

Summary

1 / 6

Past student reviews · Corissa Lotta

The course required a lot of work, though the material itself was considered simple enough for most students.

What you’ll be able to do

  • Demonstrate familiarity with research and theory on communication in a variety of clinical settings.

  • Engage in critical self-reflection and gain an increased awareness of how your personal style and cultural characteristics influence your interpersonal and communication interactions.

  • Demonstrate basic communication skills of active listening, effective questioning, reflective listening, and empathy.

  • Demonstrate comfort and competence in dealing with client emotion.

  • Conduct video-recorded practice interviews and evaluate your performance in demonstrating intentional use of a repertoire of communication skills.

  • Demonstrate the ability to give and receive feedback.

  • Increase ability to successfully develop and manage professional relationships with clients/patients, colleagues, and others.

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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Not open to students with credit forCOUN PSY 650

COUNPSY 655

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Professors

Spring 2027

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2020: 3.77 GPA, 88.2% A/AB (n=68 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.81 GPA, 88.2% A/AB (n=119 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.81 GPA, 90.7% A/AB (n=118 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

CORISSA LOTTA is recorded teaching in Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

HANNAH GLENN is recorded teaching in Fall 2020, Fall 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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SectionModeEnrolled / capacityWaitlist
LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 1200
LAB 301Classroom Instruction0 / 200
LAB 302Classroom Instruction0 / 200
LAB 303Classroom Instruction0 / 200
LAB 304Classroom Instruction0 / 200
LAB 305Classroom Instruction0 / 200
LAB 306Classroom Instruction0 / 200

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Student experience

the class

Past student reviews · Corissa Lotta

The course content was simple, but the workload was significant, with teaching that relied heavily on reading from slides.

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.75 GPA, 89.2% A/AB (n=111 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.81 GPA, 88.2% A/AB (n=119 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.81 GPA, 90.7% A/AB (n=118 letter grades).

difficulty & workload

Past student reviews · Corissa Lotta

The course required a lot of work, though the material itself was considered simple enough for most students.

Past student reviews · Corissa Lotta

One student found the extra credit opportunities and online lab to be positive aspects of the course.

Topics

  • Research and theory on communication in clinical settings.
  • Personal and cultural characteristics impacting communication.
  • Active listening, effective questioning, reflective listening, and empathy.
  • Managing client emotion.
  • Professional relationships with clients, patients, and colleagues.

Skills

  • Developing basic competencies in clinical communication and listening skills, including active listening, effective questioning, reflective listening, and empathy.
  • Critical self-reflection on how personal style and cultural characteristics influence interpersonal and communication interactions.
  • Dealing with client emotion with comfort and competence.
  • Conducting video-recorded practice interviews and evaluating performance in using a repertoire of communication skills.
  • Giving and receiving feedback.
  • Developing and managing professional relationships with clients/patients, colleagues, and others.

Grades

Historical instructor

Spring 2027 · Projected

Before grades are released

– average GPA

Approximate 80% prediction interval

About this estimate

The course’s semester-average GPA, not an individual student’s grade. The center uses 5 same-season terms, weighted toward recent results.

The range uses the finite-sample 80th-percentile rank of absolute errors from earlier same-season forecasts. Each forecast uses only records from earlier terms. At least four forecasts are required; bounds are rounded outward and limited to 0–4. This is an empirical estimate: changing instructors or grading policies can reduce its coverage.

5 earlier forecasts · 0.06 GPA average error.

Grades over time

Through Spring 2027

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Where this course fits relative to

Latest available grades · Spring 2026 · all course levels

GPA

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letter grades

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About this comparison

1280 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.

Sources & history

UW–Madison

Catalog & offerings

Descriptions, prerequisites, and recorded course offerings.

Catalog observation history

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Selected offering source records
COUNPSY 655 · Spring 2027

Clinical Communication Skills

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Grade history

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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Model outputs & technical records
Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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