Course Description
Focuses on the practice of communication for students' success in their academic and professional careers. Specific communication skills will be practiced within the following contexts: public speaking/presentations, interpersonal communications, managing conflict, presenting data, and business writing.
Athena Title
Comm for Business Effective
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in BUSN 4900, BUSN 4900E, BUSN 4940
Non-Traditional Format
Students will attend class to practice oral presentation skills; to analyze interpersonal/team conflict scenarios in order to develop and deliver optimal response strategies; and to strengthen business writing skills for clarity, tone, impact, and brevity. Approximately 60% lecture/discussion and 40% in-class presentations, writing, and interpersonal role-plays. This version of the course will be taught as writing intensive, which means that the course will include substantial and ongoing writing assignments that a) relate clearly to course learning; b) teach the communication values of a discipline—for example, its practices of argument, evidence, credibility, and format; and c) prepare students for further writing in their academic work, in graduate school, and in professional life. The written assignments will result in a significant and diverse body of written work (the equivalent of 6000 words or 25 pages) and the instructor (and/or the teaching assistant assigned to the course) will be closely involved in student writing, providing opportunities for feedback and substantive revision.
Prerequisite
Permission of major
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student learning Outcomes
Topical Outline