COMM - Communications

In this course students will learn how to analyze management problems and opportunities that occur across multiple functional areas in business. Drawing on their assessment of underlying assumptions, cognitive bias, and organizational barriers, students will increase their collaborative problem solving and ethical decision-making capacities. They will also demonstrate effective communication practices regarding problem and/or opportunity identification and the proposed courses of action to various constituent groups.

Students in this course will identify and analyze opportunities and problems that emerge in business and assess underlying assumptions, cognitive biases, and organizational barriers that affect decision-making processes. Students will construct arguments using quantitative and qualitative data to derive logical reasoning, demonstrate the use of the Virtuous Business model to make ethical decisions, and communicate those decisions using conventional and contemporary communication tools in ways that are understandable to multiple stakeholders.