This course is designed for non-native speakers who seek a structured setting for developing their "professional competence" in English. The course is dually structured so as to provide communicative and interactive tasks, which parallel both the business and legal world. From the business end, the course will center around team-building exercises utilized in management training courses. Participants will be placed in a variety of contexts, which will require them to explore and expand their capacity to communicate – in English – on a professional level; at the same time students will be given practical experience and insight into the dynamics of teams. From the legal side, the course will primarily draw from Cambridge International Legal English materials with an emphasis on tasks mirroring those professional activities undertaken by lawyers on a day-to-day basis such as counseling clients, drafting legal memos and working with contracts.

Effective presentation requires the synthesis of many skills. This course is designed as a hands-on workshop focusing above all on the "mechanical" aspects of presentation, e.g. body language, eye contact, voice modulation, the use of pause, interactive dynamics. Consideration will also be given to the concept of structuring information in digestible units. Each week, attendees will prepare and deliver a brief presentation to their fellow workshop participants who will subsequently provide comments, feedback and suggestions.  Moreover, students will be filmed in order that they may benefit from the insight, which can only be gained by actually and critically observing oneself. This course is ideal for those individuals who wish to develop their confidence in standing before a group in order to convey information. Those students who successfully participate in the workshop will receive a transcript notation.

This course intends to help students develop their practical negotiating skills through participation in a variety of simulations and bargaining games. Working either alone or in small teams, students will prepare and complete a mock negotiation during each meeting of the course. Following the conclusion of the negotiation, a debriefing will take place where participants can critically assess both the dynamic of the negotiation as well as their individual strengths and weaknesses. Additionally, the course will present students with some general negotiation theory on distributive and integrative negotiations, bargaining styles, tactics and negotiation strategies. Students completing Negotiation Workshop I may with instructor approval subsequently enroll in Negotiation Workshop II where more complex and multiparty negotiations will be considered. Those students who successfully participate in the workshops will receive a transcript notation.