Primary among soft skills are communication skills. This course serves as the upper division writing course for the School of Business and Economics . Approximately 60 percent of the course focuses upon written communication, an important component of which is the preparation of a formal, analytical report.
Students use on-line databases to conduct secondary research.
Although the primary course emphasis is written communication, students have opportunities to practice their oral communication skills both in groups and individually. This elective course prepares students to conduct primary research. Emphasis is placed upon designing, piloting, and distributing questionnaires to persons in business, education, and government sectors. Interviews and other primary research techniques are used in data collection. Students use data analysis software packages for interpretation and present their research findings with multimedia.