Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: INTRO TO BUSINESS COMMUNICATION (WILL RICE)

Department: College Courses

Grade Mode: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory

Language of Instruction: Taught in English

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 1

Description: **Designed for non-business major and non-minor students. Business major/minor seeking students should enroll in BUSI 296 instead. ** How do we communicate more effectively? As a critical part of daily life and professional life, communication is everywhere. Communication is the process of exchanging information, ideas, feelings, and opinions with others. It is essential for building and maintaining relationships, both in professional and personal contexts. Communication can help us to understand different perspectives, resolve conflicts, express ourselves clearly, and achieve our goals. The course will cover key aspects of communication in a business context such as effective verbal communication, business writing, interviews, cognitive bias, persuasion, negotiation, and other topics using frameworks and examples from industry leaders. Although the class will be more focused toward professional and team communication often found in business environments, the skills learned from the class can also be applied to everyday life. After completing the course students should have a deeper understanding of how to communicate effectively in various situations as well as the forces that drive our ways of communication. Though the course has no exams, there will be occasional in-class activities complementing the topics covered in class.