BA 1004 - Business Communication

    Recent Professors
    Sherice Bellamy
    Recent Semesters
    Summer 2025
    Class Size
    33 students
    Credits
    3
    Prerequisite
    ENGL 1001 - College Composition This course is designed to teach the reading, writing, and research skills necessary to succeed in any subsequent college course. Students will critically read and write in a variety of rhetorical situations and contexts and incorporate college-level research. Minimum 6,000 words formal writing. (AA, CSU, UC) Objectives Develop varied and flexible strategies for generating, drafting, and revising essays. Integrate the ideas of others through paraphrasing, summarizing, and quoting without plagiarism. Develop varied and flexible strategies to locate information that is credible and relevant for academic research. Outcomes Compose and revise source-based essays using a variety of rhetorical strategies appropriate for an academic audience. Locate, evaluate, and interpret primary and secondary sources for academic writing.
    Summer 2025 Sections
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    Transfers To
    CSU
    Description
    This course applies the principles of ethical and effective communication to the creation of letters, memos, emails, and written and oral reports for a variety of business situations. The course emphasizes planning, organizing, composing, and revising business documents using word processing software for written documents and presentation-graphics software to create and deliver professional-level oral reports. C-ID BUS 115