A business and professional communication course at Gallaudet University promotes interaction between the community and the deaf or hard of hearing students at the university, and provides needed professional development services to these students. The course is divided into four main parts: (1) theories of organizational communication; (2)…

Intended to give experience to students hoping to begin careers in advertising and also to serve a neglected segment of advertisers, a specialized senior-level course in small business advertising was developed at Clarion University of Pennsylvania. Early in the semester, lectures and demonstration clients focused on the distinct promotional…

A study designed to determine the extent of improvement in performance as a result of a structured experiential learning situation assessed particular techniques for reinforcing learning in a personnel administration class. Confidence in knowledge scores increased from pretest to posttest for most students, but only some knowledge scores…

The MINEFIELD exercise is an experiential learning activity in entrepreneurship education which simulates a group escape from a prisoner of war camp. This article describes the scenario, probable outcomes, and game variations. Debriefing questions highlight concepts like vision and mission, strategies versus tactics, management versus leadership,…

Service learning--a pedagogical technique combining academic learning with community service--offers many benefits to students, faculty, educational institutions, and the community. Relative to social sciences and liberal arts faculty, however, business faculty have been slow to incorporate it into their coursework. Service learning may be…

Higher education institutions are under significant pressure to provide affordable, sustainable approaches that will prepare their students with the skills they will need after graduation to achieve success in the 21st Century workplace. Digital Media Simulations are among the new technologies that have emerged with the promise to help…

Could marketing coursework be part of the general education requirements for all college students? This article describes the ways in which the professional school marketing curriculum model (Schibrowsky, Peltier, & Boyt, 2002) can complement and enhance liberal arts education outcomes. First, the general relationship between liberal arts…

This report charts the progress of the attempt at Canterbury College of Technology to develop and implement a fully integrated course--a Business and Technician Education Council (BTEC) General Diploma full-time course in business studies. Section One describes the course structure. Section Two discusses staffing, including the composition and…

The Spanish-speaking population is the third-largest language group worldwide, hence Spanish and Hispanic cultures are of major interest in the business sector. At the University of Texas, San Antonio, a course in "Spanish for Special Purposes: Business" integrates culture into the curriculum. Most students taking the course are…

Discusses a rationale for the use of experiential activities to increase student participation in college-level business courses in which the lecture format is employed. A management game used in a course on organizational change and a group learning activity used in a business law course are described. (Author/JL)

Includes 21 short articles on a variety of subjects: Internet for management development, lifelong learning in virtual universities, high performance organizations, National Vocational Qualifications, cost effectiveness and training effectiveness, mind maps, Generation X training, Japanese vocational training, management development in Libya, and…

The author's experience with a Nunavut business management education program illustrates how to develop culturally relevant organizational behavior curriculum. The process initially involved interviews with Inuit Elders about culturally appropriate responses to scenarios of cultural conflicts in the workplace identified by Inuit managers. The…

Networking is important, and it is a skill. The authors have developed an exercise that provides students with a realistic networking experience within the safe environment of the classroom. The exercise provides a lead-in to the discussion of networking techniques, active listening, the cultivation of secondary networks, appropriate ways to…

Describes an attempt to develop appropriate career skills through the design of a balanced cross modular assignment program and individual cross modular assignments. Explores difficulties associated with development and assessment of such skills. (Author/CH)

Many Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) accredited schools require undergraduate Management Information Systems (MIS) majors to take a course in the management of information technology. Over half of these schools utilize case studies in the teaching of this course. Case studies are an important vehicle for teaching…