554.013 (18S) English I: Social English and Presentations c
Overview
- Lecturer
- Course title german English I: Social English and Presentations c
- Type Course (continuous assessment course )
- Hours per Week 2.0
- ECTS credits 2.0
- Registrations 28 (20 max.)
- Organisational unit
- Language of instruction English
- possible language(s) of the assessment English
- Course begins on 07.03.2018
- eLearning Go to Moodle course
Time and place
Course Information
Intended learning outcomes
In this foundation course students do approx. 30 hours of interactive training to build up confidence and fluency in using English for business purposes. Written tasks train the basics of reader-friendly business writing. We will focus on the thematic area Carinthia/Carinthian businesses to bring English "close to home" as a global lingua franca for dealing with local and international issues.
Targeted learning outcomes include:
1. Grounding in giving effective presentations in English - able to hold a short, effective, well-structured business presentation.
2. Ability to make effective results-oriented phone calls for business.
3. Ability to write short, focussed, well-structured business emails to handle routine business situations and problem situations.
4. Training in using English for relationship and rapport building, social skills.
Teaching methodology including the use of eLearning tools
- Communicative interactive methodology (pair and group work)
- Presentations training - 4 short presentations with varying training focus, i.e. delivery, structure, rhetoric, audience contact, visual support
- Process writing training - feedback loop and editing stages
- Short teacher and other inputs combined with communicative student tasks
- Pair work phoning practice
- Peer and teacher feedback
- Individual diagnostics of grammar problems, training on selected topics with elearning support
- Monolingual vocabulary training in relevant fields of business and legal English with elearning training tasks
Examination information
Examination methodology
Presentation Test (25% of grade); Telephoning Test (15%); Written test - email inbox assignment (15%); Online monolingual vocabulary test (10%); 2 homework assignments (business emails) 15%); Classwork and homework assignments (20%).
i. 4-minute business presentation ii. 7-minute sales call to set up a sales meeting (call held with instructor,student's own choice of company which they choose to represent) iii. Inbox email test: 3 emails (chosen from 5 oder 6) onbusiness topics, e.g. payment difficulties, mix-ups, applications, internship program (1 hour test, written on the computer) iv. Online vocabulary test - 50 monolingual test items, e.g. definitions, prepositions, fixed phrases, word partnerships (see practice tests on Moodle) |
Grading scheme
Grade / Grade grading schemePosition in the curriculum
- Bachelor's degree programme Applied Business Administration
(SKZ: 518, Version: 14W.3)
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Subject: Business Language in Context
(Compulsory subject)
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§9(1) English I: Social English and Presentations (
2.0h KS / 2.0 ECTS)
- 554.013 English I: Social English and Presentations c (2.0h KS / 2.0 ECTS)
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§9(1) English I: Social English and Presentations (
2.0h KS / 2.0 ECTS)
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Subject: Business Language in Context
(Compulsory subject)
- Bachelor's degree programme Information Management
(SKZ: 522, Version: 17W.1)
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Subject: Englische Wirtschafts- und Technikkommunikation
(Compulsory elective)
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8.1 Englische Wirtschafts- und Technikkommunikation (
0.0h XX / 8.0 ECTS)
- 554.013 English I: Social English and Presentations c (2.0h KS / 2.0 ECTS) Absolvierung im 5., 6. Semester empfohlen
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8.1 Englische Wirtschafts- und Technikkommunikation (
0.0h XX / 8.0 ECTS)
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Subject: Englische Wirtschafts- und Technikkommunikation
(Compulsory elective)
- Bachelor's degree programme Information Management
(SKZ: 522, Version: 12W.1)
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Subject: Englische Wirtschafts- und Technikkommunikation
(Compulsory elective)
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4.1.1 Englische Wirtschafts- und Technikkommunikation (
0.0h XX / 8.0 ECTS)
- 554.013 English I: Social English and Presentations c (2.0h KS / 2.0 ECTS)
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4.1.1 Englische Wirtschafts- und Technikkommunikation (
0.0h XX / 8.0 ECTS)
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Subject: Englische Wirtschafts- und Technikkommunikation
(Compulsory elective)
- Bachelor's degree programme Business and Law
(SKZ: 519, Version: 12W.3)
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Subject: Business English in Context
(Compulsory elective)
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English I: Social English and Presentations (
2.0h KU / 2.0 ECTS)
- 554.013 English I: Social English and Presentations c (2.0h KS / 2.0 ECTS)
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English I: Social English and Presentations (
2.0h KU / 2.0 ECTS)
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Subject: Business English in Context
(Compulsory elective)
Equivalent courses for counting the examination attempts
- Sommersemester 2024
- Wintersemester 2023/24
- Sommersemester 2023
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Wintersemester 2022/23
- 554.011 KS English I: Social English and Presentations a (2.0h / 2.0ECTS)
- Sommersemester 2022
- Wintersemester 2021/22
- Sommersemester 2021
- Wintersemester 2020/21
- Sommersemester 2020
- Wintersemester 2019/20
- Sommersemester 2019
- Wintersemester 2018/19
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Wintersemester 2017/18
- 554.013 KS English I: Social English and Presentations Ic (2.0h / 2.0ECTS)
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Sommersemester 2017
- 554.013 KS English I: Social English and Presentations c (2.0h / 2.0ECTS)
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Wintersemester 2016/17
- 554.013 KS English I: Social English and Presentations c (2.0h / 2.0ECTS)
- Sommersemester 2016
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Wintersemester 2015/16
- 554.013 KS English I: Social English and Presentations c (2.0h / 2.0ECTS)
- Sommersemester 2015
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Wintersemester 2014/15
- 554.013 KU English I: Social English and Presentations c (2.0h / 2.0ECTS)
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Sommersemester 2014
- 554.016 KU English I: Social English and Presentations f (2.0h / 2.0ECTS)
- Sommersemester 2013