Business English: Schedule
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This schedule will be updated occasionally.
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Week of 2/22
- Create mailing list
- Choose presentation groups and order
- Homework: Print the activities package: http://cailab.net/topics/business/buseng/busengact.zip.
Week of 3/1
- Discussion: What business?
- Media: Hawaii
- Free time to work on projects in groups
- Homework - group 1 and read Marriage and Money
Week of 3/8
- Presentation group 1 - Memo to Starbucks Fans
- Review Marriage and Money
- Activity: TBA
- Homework: Read group 2 and listen to Bubble Tea
Week of 3/15
- Presentation group 2 - The Future of Green Building
- Media: Bubble tea (Have you heard this before?)
- Activity: TBA
- Homework: Read group 3 and read Siemens
Week of 3/22
- Presentation group 3 - Ads Posted on Facebook Strike Some as Off-Key
- Review Siemens
- Activity: Begin Activity 2 by viewing Netflix media and discussing the activity
- Homework: Read group 4 and listen to both Zipcar and Zipcar thieves
Week of 3/29
- Presentation group 4 - Famed Spanish Chef Ferran Aria Wants to Turn his Restaurant into a Thank Tank for Culinary Invention
- Review Zipcar and Zipcar thieves
- Activity 2: Finish
- Write questions for midterm
- Homework: Read group 5 and read Facebook ads
Week of 4/5
SPRING BREAK
Week of 4/12
- Presentation group 5 - Employment: What the Students Think
- Review Facebook ads
- Read Rent-A-Family in class
- Write questions for midterm
- Homework: Read group 6 and read Netflix
Week of 4/19
- Presentation group 6 - Starbucks Can Smell Growth
- Review Netflix
- Write questions for midterm
- Homework - Prepare for midterm.
Week of 4/26
- Midterm
- Homework: Read group 7 and group 8
Week of 5/3
- Presentation group 7 - How Karl Lagerfeld put a break through on Chanel’s couture
- Presentation group 8 - World's Richest Women
- Homework: Read group 9 and read Cash cards and read One more reason to dump Facebook.
Week of 5/10
- Presentation group 9 - Wal-Mart enters the battle of TV vs. the Internet
- Review Rule of 72 reading
- Review Cash cards
- Review One more reason to dump Facebook
- Homework: Read group 10 and read Inflation
Week of 5/17
- Presentation group 10 - Today's Homebuyers are Thinking Small
- Review Inflation
- Homework: Read group 11 and read Hollywood
Week of 5/24
- Presentation group 11 - Taiwan's Two Million Tweens
- Review Hollywood
- Homework: Read group 12 and read Speed dating 1 and Speed dating 2.
Week of 5/31
- Presentation group 12 - Apple's cold war with Google heats up - doc
- Review Speed dating articles
- Homework: read group 13
- Homework: Read group 14
Week of 6/7
- Presentation group 13 - Who Wants to Buy a Digital Elephant?
- Presentation group 14 - America's Best Independent Retailers - doc
- Speed Dating activity!
Week of 6/14
- Final exam
Week of 6/21
- No class
