The following list is alphabetical, by instructor's last name. Check the current Course Schedule.

WRITING ON BUSINESS AND SOCIETY, Dr. Sarah Massey-Warren

Welcome to Business and Society. This course will offer an introduction to business research methodologies and our central model for business research will be “strategic corporate social responsibility.” Students will write three major papers: on corporate rights; stakeholder responsibility; and sustainability.  Our major project will be an on-site research project in which students will conduct research into the inner workings of a local business. This assignment will allow to students to apply the principles they’ve learned in the first part of the course. Finally, we will conclude with a unit on professionalization, in which we’ll examine the proper formats for business communication; build student CVs; and review successful interview techniques.

WRITING ON BUSINESS AND SOCIETY, Dr. Sigman Byrd

This course aims to prepare you for thinking critically and responding effectively in writing to the challenges you will meet every day in the business world. The primary text will be your writing supplemented by background readings from the course textbook. Assignments will include a variety of professional documents through which you will practice critical thinking, reading, and writing skills and learn how to address the practical needs of different audiences in a variety of rhetorical situations as you plan, draft, revise, and reflect. Assignments will also be practical in nature and based on real-world scenarios, addressing communication and business ethics issues, corporate social responsibility and sustainability issues, as well as your career concerns. In addition, you will learn reader-centered writing strategies and apply them to your own work and the work of your classmates in a collaborative workshop setting. In essence, as you complete various writing tasks this semester, you will experience how business writing is fundamentally a cooperative effort between reader and writer, an ongoing negotiation between you and your colleagues, your employer and clients.

WRITING ON BUSINESS AND SOCIETY, Dr. Sigman Byrd

This course aims to prepare you for thinking critically and responding effectively in writing to the challenges you will meet every day in the business world. The primary text will be your writing supplemented by background readings from the course textbook. Assignments will include a variety of professional documents through which you will practice critical thinking, reading, and writing skills and learn how to address the practical needs of different audiences in a variety of rhetorical situations as you plan, draft, revise, and reflect. Assignments will also be practical in nature and based on real-world scenarios, addressing communication and business ethics issues, corporate social responsibility and sustainability issues, as well as your career concerns. In addition, you will learn reader-centered writing strategies and apply them to your own work and the work of your classmates in a collaborative workshop setting. In essence, as you complete various writing tasks this semester, you will experience how business writing is fundamentally a cooperative effort between reader and writer, an ongoing negotiation between you and your colleagues, your employer and clients.

WRITING ON BUSINESS AND SOCIETY, Dr. Sarah Massey-Warren

Welcome to Business and Society. This course will offer an introduction to business research methodologies and our central model for business research will be “strategic corporate social responsibility.” Students will write three major papers: on corporate rights; stakeholder responsibility; and sustainability.  Our major project will be an on-site research project in which students will conduct research into the inner workings of a local business. This assignment will allow to students to apply the principles they’ve learned in the first part of the course. Finally, we will conclude with a unit on professionalization, in which we’ll examine the proper formats for business communication; build student CVs; and review successful interview techniques.