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Courses Handbook 2015

This handbook contains information on courses and components (majors, minors, streams and units) at Curtin in 2015.
Information for the previous year's courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2014.

MGMT1001 (v.1) Communication in Business

Area: School of Management
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 3.0
TUITION PATTERNS: The tuition pattern provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. Precise information is included in the unit outline.
Lecture: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Equivalent(s): 311353 (v.3) Communication in Business 100 or any previous version
Anti Requisite(s): 10808 (v.2) Business Communication 101 or any previous version
UNIT REFERENCES, TEXTS, OUTCOMES AND ASSESSMENT DETAILS: The most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes, will be provided in the unit outline.
Syllabus: Covers key aspects of research, written and oral communication in academic and professional business contexts, as well as working to develop students' teamwork skills including roles of team members. Emphasis will be placed on students' ability to locate, understand, and critically evaluate business information. Students will learn about business meeting procedures and practices, how to identify and examine the importance of different business stakeholder relationships and the variety of tools used by business to communicate information in a culturally diverse and global setting. Skills in accessing information, synthesising information, argument development, the Chicago author-date referencing system, principles of effective communication with a focus on verbal and non verbal forms and the professional presentation of documents are all covered during the development of the key assignments.
Field of Education: 080300 Business and Management (Narrow Grouping)
Result Type: Grade/Mark


Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2015 Bentley Campus Semester 1         Y
2015 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        
2015 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y        
2015 Bentley Campus Semester 2         Y
2015 Sydney Campus Trimester 1A Y        
2015 Sydney Campus Trimester 2A Y        
2015 Sydney Campus Trimester 3A Y        
2015 Charles Telfair Inst Mauritius Semester 1 Y        
2015 Charles Telfair Inst Mauritius Semester 2 Y        
2015 Miri Sarawak Campus Semester 1 Y        
2015 Miri Sarawak Campus Semester 2 Y        
2015 Singapore Campus Trimester 1A Y        
2015 Singapore Campus Trimester 2A Y        
2015 Singapore Campus Trimester 3A Y        
2015 UHK SPACE CIDP Semester 2A Y        
2015 UHK SPACE Main Campus Trimester 1A Y        
2015 UHK SPACE Main Campus Trimester 2A Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External


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