to provide teaching and research value beyond the limits of communication schools or faculties. This, however, requires active research into the application context of communication, in this case the realities of contemporary organizations. For a general overview on the communication faculties and departments of US universities we recommend the following link: http://www.vii.org/afercp.htm. The following list includes brief descriptions of more than thirty managerial communication courses at

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... American, Asian, Australian and European universities. The links in the last column of each course provide pointers to additional resources, such as reference literature, course assignments, professor backgrounds, andin some instancespresentation slides or lecture transcripts. Typical course contents that are emphasized in these syllabi (and that we have highlighted in bold) include persuasion, (visual) data presentation, dealing with the media, managerial writing and speaking skills, meeting communication, change communication, cross-cultural communication, conflict communication, communicating for decision making, networking, and communicating strategically. Typical teaching methods include case study discussions, role playing, technological experiments, providing research-based guidelines and offering personalized feedback on the communicative performance of students during exercises.