You are strongly encouraged to buy or borrow from Media Services a quality USB headphone microphone such as a Logitech in order to complete the needed recordings for the class.

Overview:

This course explores how to   communicate effectively so your expert knowledge can be conveyed to a diverse audience clearly and effectively to attain your goal in a wide range of scenarios.  The course examines the components of expertise: theoretical knowledge, practical knowledge, technical skills and non-technical skills to understand how experience and judgement are leveraged to attain success.  The course uses the General, Particular, specific (GPS) model to categorize and analyze content as well as understand how to plan, prepare, and perform  oral presentations. The skill of communication in written and oral form are a key competency in the course as they are an essential common component for students to gain mastery of in their expertise.

The course provides instruction and practice to prepare students to demonstrate his or her attainment of course goals through discussion posts, essays, oral presentations, and a final literature Review.  The course objectives will prepare the students to:

SLO1 – create written and oral artifacts that clearly and effectively convey a message with graphical means and textual support.

SLO2 –Demonstrate Information Literacy to conduct research as well as examine peer and expert materials and feedback related to communication, collaboration, expert knowledge, and expertise.

SLO3- Produce written and oral communication  that demonstrate expert subject-matter mastery   while being able to convey that to  the general public.

SLO4-Compose an effective argument in essay form and corresponding oral presentation describing key factors for successful SME work.

These objectives will be attained by students through the course  content and  activities resulting in three deliverables as part of the final Big Boss project. The  Demonstrated OUtcomes  are:

DO1: Report Memo providing  essential details  on the completed  database analysis process with key findings

DO2: Video report presenting   essential  articles  for the scenario defined during  the  research investigation

DO3-Final essay presenting  the full literature  review and   resulting most significant findings  in the scenario  outlined by the student.

Please review the submission guidelines for general instructions about how to submit work and understand the comments that are returned. The course has several overarching goals that fit together to accomplish the learning objectives as well as provide you the needed skills to accomplish the final projects to demonstrate Learning Outcomes.

Writing Center: The NJIT Writing Center will be available for both in-person and synchronous online appointments. The center are open M-F and evening appointments are available. For more information, please go to our website. https://www5.njit.edu/writingcenter/            Appointments can be scheduled via Navigate which can be reached through NJIT Pipeline or directly at https://njit.campus.eab.com/   While Writing Center consultations are valuable for all writers, if you have not written a research paper since (or before) your first year in college

Course Texts, Materials,  and Resources:

All materials for the class will be available through the web or the online course management tool. Every attempt has been made to find free materials for the course.  Most readings are available publicly through the Internet or through the NJIT database system. Lectures and instructional material will be presented as documents or with PowerPoint and Net casts, most of which will be available through NJIT or directly from the web. Chapters from my text are provided in Canvas:

Lipuma, J. (2013). Fundamentals of Undergraduate Education &Learning (FUEL) Dubuque: Kendall Hunt

To complete the tasks in this course, you must have a good quality microphone that can record to allow editing of class projects.

You are strongly encouraged to buy or borrow from Media Services a quality USB headphone microphone such as a Logitech in order to complete the needed recordings for the class. Other software needed for the course should be free through NJIT or with a PC or MAC. Students are required to download and install a number of programs for this course. I have tried to identify shareware/open source applications so that you do not have the burden of purchasing expensive software. If you already have a program that you are familiar with that is similar to one of the programs, feel free to use the item you already have.

HSS408-Outline of Tasks with  points

Figure 1 gives the due dates for the class tasks and the overall point total