BMGT 175 Business Communications
This course encompasses the vital components of business communication applicable to any employment setting: business writing, interpersonal business communication, business etiquette and professionalism, and business communications utilizing technology. Students will create a business writing portfolio, an individual presentation, and work together with a team to create a group presentation, using current technologies and learning to communicate in diverse environments.
Hours Weekly
3 hours weekly
Course Objectives
- 1. Analyze and implement the steps of the business writing process.
- 2. Construct the essential written documents needed when applying for a job, using and adapting
appropriate technologies for research and communication to achieve the best results in the job
search process. - 3. Identify, use, and adapt a variety of appropriate business correspondence and technologies to
plan, write, and complete business messages and presentations, to complete research, and to
collaborate with team members through technology-mediated formats. - 4. Design and give various types of business presentations and articulate ideas for a range of
audiences and purposes. - 5. Communicate and participate in a team setting, using appropriate technologies as a
communication tool for researching, creating, and delivering a group presentation. - 6. Effectively deliver a routine message and a negative message in a business setting, using direct
and indirect communication styles as appropriate. - 7. Give and receive feedback, practice active listening skills, and analyze one’s own communication
style and choices, and those of others, through peer writing reviews and practice presentations. - 8. Deliver an effective formal oral presentation in front of a group, demonstrating the physical ability
to speak effectively, conveying concepts efficiently, appropriately, creatively, and in an organized
manner.
Course Objectives
- 1. Analyze and implement the steps of the business writing process.
This objective is a course Goal Only
- 2. Construct the essential written documents needed when applying for a job, using and adapting
appropriate technologies for research and communication to achieve the best results in the job
search process.
Learning Activity Artifact
- Other (please fill out box below)
- Team Project
Procedure for Assessing Student Learning
- Technological Literacy Rubric
- 3. Identify, use, and adapt a variety of appropriate business correspondence and technologies to
plan, write, and complete business messages and presentations, to complete research, and to
collaborate with team members through technology-mediated formats.
Learning Activity Artifact
- Other (please fill out box below)
- Team Project
Procedure for Assessing Student Learning
- Technological Literacy Rubric
- 4. Design and give various types of business presentations and articulate ideas for a range of
audiences and purposes.
Learning Activity Artifact
- Other (please fill out box below)
- Individual Presentation
Procedure for Assessing Student Learning
- Oral Communication Rubric
- 5. Communicate and participate in a team setting, using appropriate technologies as a
communication tool for researching, creating, and delivering a group presentation.
Learning Activity Artifact
- Other (please fill out box below)
- Team Project
Procedure for Assessing Student Learning
- Oral Communication Rubric
- 6. Effectively deliver a routine message and a negative message in a business setting, using direct
and indirect communication styles as appropriate.This objective is a course Goal Only
- 7. Give and receive feedback, practice active listening skills, and analyze one’s own communication
style and choices, and those of others, through peer writing reviews and practice presentations.
Learning Activity Artifact
- Peer Review
- Other (please fill out box below)
- Individual Presentation and Practice Session
Procedure for Assessing Student Learning
- Oral Communication Rubric
- 8. Deliver an effective formal oral presentation in front of a group, demonstrating the physical ability
to speak effectively, conveying concepts efficiently, appropriately, creatively, and in an organized
manner.
Learning Activity Artifact
- Other (please fill out box below)
- Individual Presentation
Procedure for Assessing Student Learning
- Oral Communication Rubric