Take My Liberty BUSI 300 Class

BUSI 300 treats communication at work as a core business skill and covers its written, spoken, nonverbal and digital forms.

Lehman's first two chapters, read in week one with five short presentations, lay out the communication process, ethics, culture and teamwork. Week two covers planning and preparing messages, with the audience analysis and drafting habits the rest of the course depends on.

Electronic communication fills week three on its own. Week four turns to routine and good-news messages and to bad-news messages, where buffers, reasons and alternatives matter. Week five is persuasion, from sales letters to requests for action.

Week six covers the report process, research, data and graphics, and proposals. Week seven covers business presentations, résumés and job interviews, and week eight closes with review presentations.

Forum threads are due in weeks one, three and five, replies in weeks two, four and six.

A 30-point quiz and a 100-point test fall together in weeks two, four, six and eight.

In the published guide, tests carry 400 points, forums 330, the presentation 150, quizzes 120 and the checklist 10.

BUSI 300 is taken by treating every forum as a piece of business writing in its own right, since faculty grade style as much as content. Threads are concise, organized with the main point first and free of the wordiness the textbook warns against.

A forum on bad-news messages might rewrite a blunt refusal from a supplier into a version with a neutral buffer, clear reasons, the decision stated once and a goodwill close, then explain each choice against Lehman's guidelines.

Replies are drafted after classmates post and offer a specific improvement or a second example, the kind of feedback a good colleague would give.

The PowerPoint Presentation is built to your section's instructions: topic, audience and length. Slides follow the course's design advice, with one idea per slide, readable type and simple graphics, and speaker notes carry the detail.

Where a section wants a recording, the notes become a script for your own voice.

The quizzes and tests are yours in every week they fall.

Items arrive before their due dates for you to post from your account.

A BUSI 300 writer has a degree in communication, English or business and has written for organizations as a corporate communicator, a marketing writer, a trainer or a manager who drafts a lot of correspondence.

It shows in what graders notice: action-oriented subject lines, point-first paragraphs, and bad news delivered politely but plainly.

Presentation slides are built by writers who have made decks for clients or executives and know how little text a good slide needs.

A second reviewer reads every thread, reply and slide deck for clarity, accuracy and APA 7.

Your identity stays with the coordinator alone.

If a chapter's guidance is unclear before a test, such as when to use the direct or indirect approach, a short explanation can come back through the coordinator.

Prompts that ask how Scripture shapes honest or gracious communication are handled by writers comfortable with that integration.

The tests are the heaviest part of the grade, four of them worth 100 points each, and they cover several chapters of terms and principles at a time.

Style is the second difficulty. Students who write well in other courses are surprised to lose points for long sentences, passive voice or a buried main point, which this course treats as errors.

The direct and indirect approaches cause confusion. Knowing when a message should open with the decision and when it should open with a buffer takes practice.

The presentation asks for design skills many students have not used, and decks crowded with bullet points lose points quickly.

The alternating rhythm of thread weeks and test weeks means the writing and the studying never quite overlap, which makes planning harder.

Students who are not native English speakers often find the emphasis on tone and concision the hardest adjustment.

Résumé and interview chapters near the end feel personal, and some students find it awkward to apply them to themselves.

If the class is handed over before it opens, the first thread is ready when the course does.

Threads arrive two or three days before weeks one, three and five open; replies follow classmates' posts the next week.

The PowerPoint Presentation is planned in week five and delivered early in week seven, leaving time for you to practice any narration.

Your quote lists three threads, three reply sets and the presentation, each with its own figure. Quizzes and tests are never on it.

Start late and you pay only for what is left.

Because tests carry 400 points, many students keep their own study time for them and hand over the writing.

The presentation is the single largest written item and the one most often ordered alone.