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LN5508: BUSINESS COMMUNICATION AND INTERACTION (2014-2015)

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Course Overview

This course will provide students with an in depth understanding of discourse and communication in organisational contexts. It will enhance knowledge in core areas of communicative strategy in management and team interactions in business settings. Students will gain the skills to interpret and analyse goal driven language in professional communities across a variety of contexts. 

Course Details

Study Type Postgraduate Level 5
Term Second Term Credit Points 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits)
Campus None. Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Dr Tania Fahey Palma

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

None.

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

None.

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

This course will examine organisational interaction and communication within a business and management context. Key features of institutional discourse and effective communication will be considered in order to provide students with the skills necessary to conduct a linguistic analysis of different aspects of business communication and interaction. Core areas of this course will focus on the discourse practices of meetings, transactional and relational talk in business contexts and intercultural communication.

Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

Teaching Breakdown

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Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 30 August 2024 for 1st term courses and 20 December 2024 for 2nd term courses.

Summative Assessments

Essay on guided reading (3,000 words) (40%); discourse analysis essay on aspect of professional workplace interaction (60%).

Formative Assessment

There are no assessments for this course.

Feedback

None.

Course Learning Outcomes

None.
 

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