Effective Negotiation and Persuasion

Provides for learning, practicing, and refining essential debate and discussion skills, abilities in high demand in both academia and industry and central to effective negotiation and persuasion. The course provides practice and feedback in class and covers a range of words, phrases and discourse structures for improving English proficiency and functioning effectively in academic and industry contexts as well as familiarity with commonly accepted interactional patterns. Students taking the course for 2 units will have additional individual assignments and a weekly 50-minute tutorial. Intended for visiting undergraduates and students in the High School Summer College program. Graduate students may attend by permission