Through readings and the laboratory method, students learn human relations skills for effectiveness in personal and career situations. Topics include perception, listening, conflict resolution, and group dynamics. This course focuses on the requirements for successfully managing an organization's training function. Classes include small and large group instruction, video, participatory exercises, and case studies. This course introduces workplace education through the study of organizational and human resource development.
Emphasis is on managing productive change by using tested theory in actual workplace situations.
This course helps students become familiar with the current uses of the video disk and other multimedia, as well as with such delivery platforms for multimedia as SonyViewSystem, IBM M-motion, IBM's DVI, Philips CDI, and with the planning, budgeting and logistics of video production. Participants learn the range of authoring tools that exist for these systems and their relative advantages. They apply principles of instructional and course ware design and study the practical considerations involved in the production of visual media, as well as writing a design proposal and a multimedia project budget. Using this general design document, students produce specifications for the video, computer program flow, graphic screens, video disk layout and other effects that translate the original instructional design into a usable program. They also achieve basic proficiency in the use of a popular project management software program.