UNIV2114: Developing Literacies in the Pre-Professional Majors

Course Description 

This 1-credit hour course will provide an overview of the professions that require specific advanced level education for entry into the profession (e.g., medicine, pharmacy, veterinary medicine, business).Students will be exposed to the ways in which practitioners in these professions create and interpret written/delivered information and communicate with other practitioners and stakeholders. 
Sayamon Singto teaching in the classroom.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Course Learning Objectives 

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to: 

  • Describe the approaches that business professionals adopt with regard to information and communication, and produce written/delivered work that models those approaches  
  • Identify the main ideas and arguments of academic sources and other sources of information common in business fields  
  • Locate, evaluate and incorporate source materials in written work in a manner that meets the expectations of academic writing and the standards of business fields  
  • Produce a synthesis of various sources in a manner that meets the expectations of academic writing and the standards of business fields. 

 

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