The PreMBA personal coach provides customized support while also encouraging students to develop strategies needed to improve their skill areas. Attention is placed on identifying the key problems and issues in a case. Students sharpen their critical thinking skills and learn how to write a well substantiated case analysis. 5616 Readings in Business Helps students improve their academic reading, vocabulary, and critical thinking skills using business readings, such as current articles from Harvard Business Review and Sloan Management Review. Students discuss the readings in class and learn strategies for responding to questions on essay exams.
Emphasis is placed on writing well developed, coherent essays.
Skills Familiarizes students with the basic techniques required to prepare and give persuasive presentations on various business topics. The focus is on stating the purpose of the presentation, organizing information, creating audience interest, emphasizing key points, incorporating graphs and visuals, responding to questions, summarizing and concluding arguments. Presentations are created using PowerPoint software. Presentations are videotaped, viewed and analyzed. Pronunciation Allows students to improve their pronunciation by using a variety of techniques that emphasize stress patterns, intonation and common phoneme discrimination within words.