WORKPLACE WRITING AND COMMUNICATION

COMARTS 100

Develop written and spoken communication skills through hands-on learning while studying audience- centered public speaking. Focus on becoming more confident and comfortable as a speaker and writer. Strengthen your library research skills and digital literacy. Gain essential skills for success in college courses and life beyond the university, from job interviews to professional presentations, to research talks.

GENBUS 799

Individual work suited to the needs of graduate students may be arranged both during regular sessions and during the intersession periods.

JOURN 202

Build increasingly sophisticated communication skills, including writing, editing, gathering information, working with data, and presenting stories through varying media forms. Develop an appreciation of how different media influence message design by communicators and reception by audiences. Develop a complex toolkit of conceptual and practical skills for media work in journalism, strategic communication, and hybrids. Build writing skills and critical thinking abilities, two elements common to success in any field.

LSC 100

Fundamentals of effective written and spoken communication. Develops skills in gathering and evaluating information, writing research papers and other documents, and preparing and delivering oral presentations.

GENBUS/INTLBUS 340

Learn how to adapt writing, speaking, and nonverbal behavior to effectively communicate in a Western European context (e.g. Germany, France, United Kingdom, Italy, and Spain). Examine issues such as cultural attitudes toward authority, time, gender, and race, as well as the religious and philosophical values that support those attitudes. Explore frameworks for understanding a national culture's influence on communication and learn how to apply that to practical use.