- Online
- $570
This course can be applied to the UBC Award of Achievement in Business English for International Professionals or it can be taken as a stand-alone course.
Designed specifically for multi-language learners, this course focuses on advanced areas of professional communication including tone, context, and relationship-building strategies.
Whether you are trying to strike the right note in an email to a client or co-worker, putting together promotional materials for yourself or your employer, or reaching out to community members with sensitive messaging, this course will enrich your awareness of the nuances of diverse communication situations and protocols and enhance your business writing skills.
Apply the strategies you learn in weekly assignments, contribute to class discussions, participate in group work and receive constructive feedback from your peers and the instructor.
This course can be taken as the follow-up course to Business Writing Essentials or can be taken on its own as a way to build expertise that is sensitive to context, nuance and tone at work.
Course outline
Week 1: Establishing Your Voice as a Professional Communicator
Week 2: Awareness of Tone in Connecting with Your Readers
Week 3: Accessibility for All Stakeholders
Week 4: Focusing on Correspondence
Week 5: Spotlight on Proposals and Reports
Week 6: Style in the Workplace
Week 7: Crafting the Perfect CV
Week 8: Final Reflections
How am I assessed?
This course is marked complete/incomplete based on participation and completion of course materials. Your instructor provides personalized feedback on the assignments you complete.
Expected effort
Expect to spend 2-3 hours per week completing course activities.
Technology requirements
To take this course, you'll need access to:
- an email account
- a computer, laptop or tablet?
- the latest version of a web browser (or previous major version release)
- a reliable internet connection
- a video camera and microphone.
Course format
This course is 100% online and instructor supported. Course work is done independently and at your own pace within deadlines set by your instructor. Log in anytime to your course to access the lessons as they become available.
Materials will be available for three weeks after the course ends, after which time you will no longer be able to access the course.
Learn more about online learning at Extended Learning.