Course includes study of structured writing. This course is double-listed for both undergraduate and graduate students. Graduate students will be required to complete additional work that emphasizes theory and research over application. Thus they must demonstrate a higher level of learning than undergraduates. Students practice various speech types such as briefings, interviews, formal technical presentations, panels, and impromptu presentations.
Course also includes an overview of communication theory as it applies to oral presentations.
Students produce, edit, or analyze samples of such documents as patient information brochures, medical advertisements, pharmaceutical package inserts, and medical research papers. Focuses on such topics as the function of roles in groups, conflict resolution, leadership in the small group, gender differences, listening and negotiation skills, and managing meetings. Workshop activities reinforce these principles. This course is double-listed for both undergraduate and graduate students. Graduate students will be required to complete additional work that emphasizes theory and research over application.