Communication instruction in a mature institutional partnership: an examination of evolving methods.(Wirtschaftsuniversitat Wien (Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration))

Business Communication Quarterly, June, 2005 by Hardy, Samuel B., IV; Thomas, Martha Wetterhall

Since 1994, the University of South Carolina at Columbia and the Wirtschaftsuniversitat Wien (Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration) have offered a joint master's degree in international business. Communication instruction was initially a stable component of the program, with a week-long course at the beginning and a report-writing workshop at the end, followed by individual instruction in preparing deliverables for a consulting field project. Since the field projects were phased out in 2003, students continue to receive the one-week communication course in Vienna; after that, they have voluntary access to individual instruction from the Center for Business Communication at the University of South Carolina and exposure to in-class communication...

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