COM 4340 Corporate Training and Development

3 Hours

This interactive and application-based course is designed to enhance students’ understanding of and experience with the design, development, presentation, and evaluation of organizational training programs centered around communication skills specifically. Students will conduct a needs assessment to determine specific training needs within a real organization setting. Further they will consider factors that shape the needs of the organization and how training can (or cannot) address these needs. They will individually construct training content-in person and online-that covers a minimum of a half day (four contact hour) workshop. In all, this experiencial course will build students’ capacity to create and deliver a training program that can be adapted to and implemented in an organization.