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Course Descriptions
ENGR 311 Professional Communication and Information
Management
Class Schedule:
Session 1 - Wednesday, May 14
Session 2 - Wednesday, May 28
Session 3 - Monday, June 2
Session 4 - Wednesday, June 4
Session 5 - Wednesday, June 11
Session 6 - Wednesday, June 18
Session 7 - Wednesday, June 25
4th of July Recess - June 30 - July 4 (no class)
Session 8 - Wednesday, July 9
Session 9 - Wednesday, July 16
Session 10 - Wednesday, July 23
Session 11 - Wednesday, July 30 Session 12 - Wednesday, August 6
Session 13 - Wednesday, August 13
Session 14 - Wednesday, August 20
Session 15 - Wednesday, August 27
Course Description:
Professional Communication is a skill that is often taken for granted.
Yet, the words we use and the when, where, why and how we use them,
influences peoples' perceptions as to who we are, what we feel and what
we know. As it relates to business, perception is often reality and
favorable perception-reality nurtures business relationships. Economically,
communication and business relationship skills create value for an employer
and value-added in a business environment is the key to business success
in its broadest and narrowest measurements. Furthermore, technology
is dynamically changing business' communication needs. Today's business
places a premium on speed in a shrinking world, which is eliminating
national boundaries, flattening organizational structures and challenging
relationship building. Notwithstanding technological dynamics, this
course will reinforce that people remain drivers of value and that communication
proficiency can enhance or diminish that value. Therefore, the course
teaches that through professional communication skill refinement, productive
business and team relationships are fostered, which are keys to success
in an increasingly complex business environment.
Required Texts:
If Only We Knew What We Know by Carla O'Dell ISBN 0684844745
Technical Communication and Its Applications by Jerome Borowick
ISBN 0130209961
Technical Communication in the Global Community by Deborah Andrews
ISBN 0130281522
Technical Style by James M. Haile ISBN 0971541809
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