Oral communication skills are essential to professional success. In this course, students improve their ability to lead meetings, conduct telephone and conference calls, and communicate with superiors, colleagues, employees, and clients. Activities focus on simulated role-plays, practice exercises, and oral communication strategies.

Giving effective presentations is critical to professional success. In this class, students learn how to organize messages, choose appropriate language for informing, persuading and influencing audiences in different professional contexts and deliver interactive and engaging formal and informal presentations using PowerPoint.

This course is designed for those who would like to sound more professional in front of colleagues, bosses and clients. Students work closely with the instructor to improve their accent and pronunciation. Classes are small so exercises and activities in stress, intonation, modulation and consonant and vowel sounds are individualized to help students achieve personal goals. This course is designed for native speakers of English as well as very highly advanced non-native speakers of English. (For non-native speakers of English, please see courses listed under ESL.)