MARSHALL SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
CENTER FOR
MANAGEMENT COMMUNICATION
ELECTIVES
Corporations, small firms, start-ups -- all of today’s players
in the global business environment have two fundamental
components: people and communication.
We’re now in the age of COMMUNCATION DESIGN.
Building your business communication
knowledge and skills is key to competitive
advantage and career success.
We prepare both present and future
business leaders to manage the
communication demands of a highly
competitive and rapidly changing global
marketplace.
CMC = Center for Management Communication
teaches
BUCO-Electives
= BUsiness COmmunication
BUCO 445: Building Oral Communication Expertise (4 units)
What is the course about?
Learn what to say, when to say
it, and how to say it. Become
an authentic and credible
communicator, ready for
executive-level leadership.
BUCO 458: Managing Communication and New Media
(4 units)
What is the course about? Create communication strategies that contribute to
interpersonal and collaborative success through creativity, assessment,
feedback, and e-culture management in organizations. Explore 21st-century
technology as an essential communication tool in business.
BUCO 485: Business Communication Management for
Nonprofits (4 units)
What is the course about? A great class for anyone interested in a career in
the exploding nonprofit sector, or planning to work in a company that has a
clearly defined social mission. Learn about the best communication tools
and tactics used by successful nonprofits and examine potential
partnerships with the for-profit world. (Note: Helps fulfill elective
requirements for Marshall’s Social Entrepreneurship minor and for SPPD
degree tracks.)
Selected potential employers:
BUCO 460: International Business Communication (4 units)
What is the course about?
Prepare for the challenge
to work in multicultural
environments at home
and around the globe.
BUCO 333: Communication in the Working World:
Managing Diversity and Conflict
(4 units)
What is the course about?
Become a communicator
who understands what
inclusion in the workplace
means and how to lead
people to live it.
BUCO 450: Communication for Organizations:
Exploring Creativity and Innovation (2 units)
What is the course about? Develop your individual creative thinking
and problem-solving skills; explore the catalysts for workplace
creativity; practice the managerial communication tactics necessary to
foster organizational innovation.
BUCO 252: The Art of Case Analysis and Presentation (2 units)
What is the course about? Prepare for your career: Work in teams, hone your
analytical presentation skills. (Remember that many job interviews today are
case-based.)
COMMUNICATE
Create compelling arguments.
Lead a successful team.
Develop global perspectives.
Explore new technologies.
Understand diversity.
Advance a social mission.
Tap your creative potential.
Persuade, motivate, inspire.
BUSINESS COMMUNICATION ELECTIVES -- O V E R V I E W
BUCO 445 Building Oral Communication Expertise
(4 units)
BUCO 458 Managing Communication and New Media
(4 units)
BUCO 460 International Business Communication
(4 units)
BUCO 485 Business Communication Management for Nonprofits
(4 units)
BUCO 333m Communication in the Working World: Managing Diversity and Conflict
(4 units)
BUCO 450 Communication for Organizations: Exploring Creativity
(2 units)
BUCO 252 The Art of Case Analysis and Presentations
(2 units)
For more information, please contact:
Ms. Marti Rood
Department Coordinator
Email: mrood@marshall.usc.edu
Ms. Rood will put you in touch with the respective professors teaching the elective.
Visit our website:
http://www.marshall.usc.edu/faculty/centers/cmc
Visit Marshall’s undergraduate website:
http://students.marshall.usc.edu/undergrad
Visit us in person:
Center for Management Communication
ACC 400 (4th Floor, Leventhal School of Accounting, a.k.a. Accounting Building)
Call us: 213.740.0627
Email the CMC: buco@marshall.usc.edu
Or email Prof. Lucy Lee at lvl@marshall.usc.edu