BBS Second Year Syllabus (English)

1.     Business Communication Skills

I.       The Communication Process.

·        Elements of communication process

·        Methods of communication

·        The writing process

·        Oral communication process

·        Group work and collaboration process

·        Communication structures and systems

·        Management style and communication

·        Barriers of business communication

 

II.   Business Communication.

·        Defining business communication

·        Nature of communication

·        Historical perspectives

·        Purpose of business communication

·        Functions of business communication

·        Importance of business communication

·        Components of business communication

·        Types of business communication

·        Principles of effective business communication

·        Challenges for business communication

 

III.      Skills and values in Business Communication.

·        The importance of communication skills

·        Identifying communication skills sets

·        Organizational communication skills

·        Leadership communication skills

·        Professionalism in business communication

·        Elements of professionalism

·        Ethical values

·        Intercultural sensitivities

 

IV.       Electronic and other messages

·        Memos

·        Notices

·        Letters

·        Using emails

·        Blogs

·        Advertisements

·        Press release

 

V.    Report and Proposals

·        Business plan

·        Reports

·        Proposals

 

VI.  Oral communication

·        Presentations and speeches

·        Telephone calls

·        Other oral communication situations

·        Enhancing oral communication

·        Using visual aids

·        Using nonverbal communication

 

VII.   Visual communication

·        Pictures

·        Charts

·        Graphics

 

VIII.   Employment communication

·        Planning and conducting a job search

·        Resumes and cover letters

·        Job interview

 

 

2.     Discourse in Disciplines

 

I.       Culture and Society

·         New Nepal

·         Looking for a rain God

·         Dover beach

·         Shooting an elephant

·         The unknown citizen

·         The parrot in the cage

 

II.   Money and Management

·         Advertise your business

·         Eveline

·         The company man

·         Light my lucky

·         The ideal of craftsmanship

 

III.  Science and Environment

·         Religion and science

·         The new physics

·         Root cellar

·         On warts

·         The etiquette of freedom

·         The rights of animal

 

IV.  Gender and Women

·         Professions for women

·         The use of force

·         The stronger

·         Here I love you

·         The kiss

·         Girl

·         Farewell

·         Popular mechanics

 

V.      Life, Death and Beyond

·         The fly

·         Jest and earnest

·         The old man at the bridge

·         Once more to the lake

·         The hundredth dove

·         The lunatic

 

VI.  Art and Philosophy

·         An essay in aesthetics

·         The clock tower

·         Beauty

·         From the fountainhead to the future

·         What I, think I am

·         All-pervading poetry

·         The allegory of the cave

·         Her first ball

·         Not the non-existent