This course exposes intermediate students to essential business-related vocabulary and concepts related to topics such as brands, business travel, finance, management, human resources, international markets, ethics and leadership. Students practice specific business-related communication skills, including managing meetings, networking, negotiating, presenting, and writing email, meeting minutes, reports and summaries. Students also learn phrases and strategies for managing business small talk and networking, including scenarios that demand cross-cultural communication. Students are challenged to apply their learning in authentic speaking tasks, such as role plays and case study analysis and discussion. In addition, students extend and reinforce their learning through independent research designed to support business-related performance tasks: presenting a trade show poster promoting a hotel for business travelers, delivering an employee investment training seminar mini-presentation, and negotiating the best business strategy to turn around a struggling company in a meeting simulation.
Modality
Face to Face on Campus
Learning Model
Academic Course
Competency
Leadership,
Verbal Communication Skills,
Intercultural Competence,
Critical Thinking,
Writing Skills