As anyone who’s been to college will tell you, you often end up taking courses that are the lesser of two evils just to fulfill some requirement. “Do I want to take The History of Conjunctions or would I rather take English Prose from 1612-1680? Neither, but I’ve got to choose one to graduate.”
Sometimes you’re lucky and you end up loving the class and want to learn more–and you might even switch majors. If you’re somewhat lucky, you learn a thing or two and don’t fail. And then sometimes you wonder when you’ll ever remember one factoid of that information.
It’s easy for adults to say to students, “Oh, you’ll need that one day.” But to give you a little inspiration, our CBCampus ambassadors are filling you in on the classes they took that they see as beneficial to their careers. First up is Kristina.
Organizational Communication
This class explained the different elements that keep an organization running. Some of these include the roles of a manager, subordinate, human resources specialist, even Millennials and many others. These relationships and the mission of that organization will shape the culture and ideology of the employees and the vision seen by their consumers. This class showed me what type of business I want to work in, including how I want to be managed. When I began job searching and interviewing, I learned to research and pick up on each organization’s culture and to understand whether it was highly human relations oriented or strictly top-down communication.
Managerial Communication
This class was different than any other class I’ve taken in college. Instead of the standard textbook, the teacher had us order a subscription of the Wall Street Journal to use a basis for the class. Each day we discussed the management stories as well as headliners to relate back to the lecture, case studies, and theories of workplace communication. As another way to explain the differences in organizations, we had roundtable discussions and question and answer sessions with monprofit, corporate, and government managers from several different companies to explain their job and what they deal with on a daily basis. I learned what type of organization I want to work for as well as a more practical and useful view of how what I learn can be related to my day to day life and what is happening in the world today.
These classes gave me a more hands on view of what I want for my future organization and job title. This helped me develop more beneficial skills that make me feel more confident in my career path. Hopefully in the future, more college courses can take lesson plans past simple definitions and tedious memorizing to more relatable and helpful material.
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