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- Title
Teaching Business Communication in an Accelerated Program.
- Authors
Lynott, Patricia A.
- Abstract
In 1995, Elmhurst College began developing a new major in Human Services Administration to serve the needs of a burgeoning adult student population. It is an accelerated, interdisciplinary program in which a small cohort of students matriculates as an interdependent group throughout their college work. Students begin the program with a five-week communication module that prepares them to communicate information, coordinate activities, and make decisions. The module includes five components: intercultural communication, the process and contexts of communication, relationship development and self-disclosure, group communication and team building, and oral communication. These components were selected as the most important topics to be covered in a short time frame. Teachers serve largely as coaches or guides, leading students through exercises in active and cooperative learning, especially those exercises that build listening skills, the fundamental skills for all communication.
- Subjects
UNITED States; BUSINESS communication; TEACHING; ACTIVE learning; ELMHURST College; ADULT students; HUMAN services; CURRICULUM; COLLEGE students; CROSS-cultural communication; SELF-disclosure; INTERPERSONAL communication; ORAL communication education
- Publication
Business Communication Quarterly, 1998, Vol 61, Issue 2, p20
- ISSN
1080-5699
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/108056999806100204