Faculty Syllabus

Below are the percentages and weights for each component of the course grade. 

Course Grade 

This is how your course grade will be determined:

Monitor your progress

I will provide the feedback for each assignment in one week after your submission.

Grading Policy

Assignments submitted after the due date will receive a 10% grade deduction. For example, assignments which would have been graded an A will be graded as B, or instead of 100%, the grade will be 90%. Work submitted after two days past the original due date will not be accepted and will receive a zero.

Textbook

Essentials of Business Communication-12e; ISBN-9780357714997

This is course uses first day access for students, if you opt out of first day access be sure to purchase MindTap Access for this course along with text book.

Publisher Materials

We will use MindTap for all of our activities. You can access MindTap by completing the following steps

1. Click on the Cengage Book Access link located on the lefthand side of the screen.
2. Click on Business Correspondence and Communication
3. If you currently have a Cenage account you will login by entering your credentials. If you do not you will need to create an account. Once you do you should gain access to our course. You do not need to pay for anything. If you are prompted to pay please let me know and do not pay. 

Student Learning Outcomes, General Education Competencies, & SCANS:

Course Student Learning Outcomes:

• Enable the student to recognize the relationship of effective communications skills to success in academic, work and social environments.
• Challenge the student to understand how to plan and develop messages that achieve the message objective and maintain goodwill by using the CBO approach, an appropriate message strategy, and basic message qualities.
• Develop both written and oral communication skills to produce clear, complete, accurate messages.
• Understand message strategies and formats appropriate for professional communication situations.

SCANS:

Department SCANS skills for this and other Office Administration courses in the program are given below. Students will demonstrate their master of these skills through the use of class discussions, written assignments, demonstrations, and/or test taking.

• Reading - locates, understands, and interprets written information in prose and in documents such as manuals, graphs, and schedules
• Writing-communicates thoughts, ideas, information, and messages in writing; and creates documents such as letters, directions, manuals, reports, graphs, and flow charts
• Listening - receives, attends to, interprets, and responds to verbal messages and other cues
• Speaking - organizes ideas and communicates orally