This course is designed to enhance students' professional skills for communication purposes, with an emphasis on effective oral and written forms of communication via extensive practices. The training draws heavily on relevant theories in intercultural communication, organizational communication, and business communication, which provides intellectual foundations for the design, production, and delivery of professional communication messages. Also emphasized throughout the training are professional codes of ethics and values. At the end of the training, students are expected to be able to master a variety of oral skills such as interviewing, presentation, negotiation, and discussions and to be able to produce written documents for a variety of contexts such as news releases, policy reports, business proposals, and academic papers.