MANAGERIAL COMMUNICATIONS

College of Business and Public Policy, University of Alaska

Anchorage
CIS A280 Summer 2015
PURPOSE
Introduces students to managerial communications, and engages you in its functions through
writing, presentation, and teamwork skills in a business environment. This course explores ideas
and theories about how and why people communicate in business and professional situations.
When you successfully complete this course, you will be growing as a communicator and learning
why and how to navigate communication issues in both essential and necessary business and
professional contexts.

LEARNING OUTCOMES
Upon successful completion of CIS A280, you will be able to:

Deliver Oral Presentations

Develop a thorough audience analysis for a proposed business presentation.

Determine appropriate presentation methods for an identified business audience.
Design and develop professional presentation visuals.
Deliver successful informative and persuasive business presentations.
Demonstrate the ability to receive, acknowledge, and answer questions following a business
presentation.

Develop Written Documents

Produce presentation and written materials that meet published style standards for a
business organization.
Demonstrate the ability to successfully adapt language for global business situations.

Participate as a Team Member

Support the development of high-performance, cohesive learning teams.

Demonstrate the ability to engage in critical thinking in significant team learning tasks.

Develop a team report and conduct a team presentation followed by a question and answer
(Q&A) session.

GRADING: Fatal Error Policy (excerpt)

As future business leaders, you must demonstrate professional standards in writing. To this end,
all assignments must meet minimal standards to be acceptable. In this course, the term fatal
errors refers to errors in the usage of Standard American English and errors in formatting.
Specifically, fatal errors include the following:
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Nonconformity with assignment format guidelines

Errors in spelling (each different word counts as one error)
Mistakes in capitalization
Run-on sentences or comma splices
Errors in punctuation
Errors in verb tense or subject/verb agreement
Use of sentence fragments (except when using telegraphic style, i.e. phrases in
PowerPoint slides)

You will lose points for all fatal errors. Documents containing five or more fatal errors
on any one page will drop a letter grade. Documents containing ten or more errors on
one page will be returned without grading for revisions, and the subsequent version will
CIS A280 Managerial Communications Syllabus excerpt

Summer 2015

receive a grade no higher than C. PowerPoint presentations with more than three errors
per slide or more than ten in the entire slideshow will receive a grade no higher than C. Before
submitting an assignment, ask yourself if you would be comfortable giving it to your manager or
supervisor. If not, revise!
Use the UAA Writing Center, your teammates, and software to proofread papers for these errors.
MS Office 2013 has a spelling and grammar-checking feature, and WhiteSmoke software is
available for student use in RH 210 as well as on a number of workstations located in the RH 209
CBPP Computer Lab. These software features will identify many, but not all, errors for you so
that you may correct them before submission.

CIS A280 Managerial Communications Syllabus excerpt

Summer 2015