Department of European Studies & Modern Languages, Unit Catalogue 2009/10 |
EU20387: Business German option 1B |
 Credits:
| 6 |
| Level:
| Intermediate |
| Period: | Semester 1 |
| Assessment:
| CW 40%, EX 60% |
| Supplementary Assessment: | EU20387 Re-assessment work (where allowed by programme regulations) |
| Requisites:
| Before taking this unit you must take EU20386 |
| Description: | Aims: The course continues to revive, develop and consolidate foreign language skills in order to enable students to operate effectively in the sphere of business and management. Learning Outcomes: On successful completion of this unit students will be able to read and understand business reports, understand and respond to business letters, understand and comment on business statistics, summarise business-related reports, understand and react to audio and video material related to business. Skills: * Speaking, listening, reading, writing in German - all assessed * Cultural understanding - taught and facilitated * Team skills - facilitated * Autonomous learning - facilitated * Cognitive - taught Content: Further development of linguistic proficiency using the same methods as in Semester 1. The second part of the course is concerned with more real world material such as economics magazines and TV news items, on which the study of many aspects of the foreign business environment will be based. Continued emphasis on overall fluency and grammatical accuracy. |