New grading guidelines for LSC 307

ENGLISH 307 COURSE INFORMATION

Teacher: Gregory Vrhovnik Work Station: 44

Phone No. 02 4048 711 E-mail: gvrhovnik@hct.ac.ae

Course Description:

This course is one semester. It focuses on career preparation through tasks, such as creating CVs, writing business letters, job interviews, the participation in formal meetings and the writing of meeting agenda and minutes. To be completed also a written report and a formal presentation of it.

Course Goals & Marks:

ASSESSMENT	%
CVs	5%
Business Letters	5%
Interviews	10%
Meetings (Agendas, Minutes, Memos )	20%
Preliminary major related report *	15%
Extended major related report **	15%
Formal Presentation	20%
Portfolio	10%

*This will be major based topic and include a minimum of four references

**This will need a minimum addition of two references

Warning: The HCT policy for cheating is dismissal from the HCT.

Late Submissions: Assignments handed in late will be penalized.

N307 Schedule - Weeks 1-10

LSEC N307 Calendar

Week	Week Begins	Assessment Deadlines (End of week)	Class activities
1	Sept 9		Introduce CV and Cover Letter
2	Sept 16	CV	CV 5%
3	Sept 23	Cover Letter
4	Sept 30		Cover Letter 5%                       Introduce Interviews
5	Oct 7th	Interviews  10%
6	Oct 14	Meetings - Memos/agenda	Introduce Meetings
7	Oct 21		Conduct practice meetings
8	Oct 28	Meetings - 20%
9	Nov. 4	Meeting Minutes
10	Nov 11	Extended major related Report - DRAFT

Welcome to N307

Welcome Business and Engineering students:

Welcome to N307, an course in Professional Communication to help you develop communication skills for use in your company, or when communicating with outside companies and managers.
This blog will be the main site for passing course information on to you, the students of N307.

I look forward to having you all in class, and to help you develop your skills.

Gregory