To help students become skillful with all facets of communication in the workplace. Students can demonstrate effective listening skills through their ability to analyze and interpret verbal messages for content, context, and affect, as well as retain messages acquired from the listening process. Students are aware of cultural diversity and its implications. Students can write a scholarly documented research paper that synthesizes their own ideas with ideas and information from sources. Students can write effective resumes and coverletters.
Students can perform well in the job interview process.
Students can present effectively in front of a group. It includes such behaviors as cheating on assignments or examinations, plagiarizing, submitting the same or essentially the same papers for more than one course without the consent of all instructors concerned, misappropriating library materials, or the destroying of or tampering with computer files. Plagiarism is the failure to give credit for the material from other sources. It includes, but is not limited to, verbatim use of a quote without quotation marks and adequate documentation, submission of a paper prepared by another person as one s own work, using the ideas, facts, words, or data of someone else and claiming them as your own, or not documenting ideas, facts, words, or data gathered in research. Lourdes College has an established procedure for a fair resolution of students academic concerns.