Communication, what's that?

Students from the study Business and Applied Mathematics have a course each year in the first three years of their four year study. During this course they learn how to be a chairman in a meeting. They learn how to get in contact with companies. Communication covers a wide area. So what do the students learn when they are following this course?

In the first year, they learn how to get in contact with a company. They have to ask someone from the company to give a presentation for all the students. So you learn how to approach someone from a company. You have to use formal language. When the person from the company comes to your school you have to guide him around. You have to make an announcement to your class who he is. You thank him afterwards.

During meetings, you learn how to be a chairman. The chairman makes an agenda so there is structure during the meeting, he guides the meeting. He has to make sure that people don't talk when someone is already talking. Another function that has to be fulfilled during a meeting is the function of secretary. The secretary makes notes of the things everybody says. Afterwards the secretary makes a document so everyone can read what the meeting was about.

During all this you learn how to write correctly in Dutch. That's important if you're going to work in a company later. When you are doing all this you get feedback from you're fellow students. You also give feedback to them.

This is just the first year. In the years that follow you learn how to apply for a job, work on your English and how to make contact with an English company. So you learn a lot during those years.

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