2022-2023 Pierce College Catalog 
    
    Apr 30, 2024  
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BTECA 250 Business Communications (5 credits)



Formerly BUS 250

Prerequisite BTECA 115  or ENGL& 101 .

Course Description
This course will benefit you with your career aspirations and goals in the business world and make you more competitive by completing relevant and practical assignments relative to oral and written business communications and research that are required in today’s marketplace.

Course Content
A. Oral business communications
B. Written business communications
C. Research methods
D. Oral presentation

Student Outcomes
1. Create error-free documents using specified formats for letters, emails, reports, etc.

2. Employ a systematic approach to creating and editing documents.

3. Produce documents tailored to the audience to meet the intended purpose.

4. Compose business letters of various purposes such as expressing goodwill, attempting to persuade, or conveying a negative message.

5. Research a topic related to business communications that incorporates academic research and primary sources reflected in a written report with visual representation.

6. Use information ethically and legally.

7. Utilize researched information to compose and deliver an oral report.

8. Represent a worldwide business understanding in oral and written communication.

Degree Outcomes
Program Outcome: Communicate effectively using written, oral, and visual communications skills. Critical, Creative, and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.

Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50



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