Course covers Internet and Web Browsers, search engines, downloading techniques, information evaluation methods, electronic mail standards, security, and construction and maintenance of Web pages. Focus is on decision making in the areas of information retrieval and communication. It explores general ethical perspectives, ways of interpreting human action as right or wrong, and competing standards of moral behavior. Analyzes the application of general standards and values to concrete cases of human conduct, including cases involving truthfulness and lying, property and theft, respect and sexuality, moral integrity and the professions, social responsibility and the world of business. Initiative, confidence and creativity are encouraged as students develop an annual report for a non-profit organization, create a multimedia presentation and a crisis communication memorandum and present a marketing speech.
Course draws on communication literature and related principles of management.
We spend at least 80 percent of our time in communication situations listening, and only 20 percent of the time speak- mg. Effective listening is a learned technique, a critical component in the communication process, and a career and personally enhancing dynamic. It also examines the impact of listening filters such as voices, personal biases, gender and culture. Successful organizational leaders know how to tap people's capacity to learn. They develop a vision for transforming the way people work, learn and interact and understand how patterns developed in one context can be adapted in others.