Course detail

Professional German 2

FP-PN2KAcad. year: 2011/2012

The course is focused on characteristic features of business professional communication. It provides students with the relevant specialist language and professional communication skills they will need in the workplace.

Language of instruction

German

Number of ECTS credits

4

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

PhDr. Zdeňka Myšková

Department

Institute of Foreign Languages (ÚJ)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

The course is intended to deepen the student’s language skills necessary for professional communication using relevant vocabulary. It will familiarise the students with basic economic terminology and enable them to understand professional economic texts.

Prerequisites

It follows up on the language knowledge and skills obtained in the previous semester.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Course-unit credit is awarded on condition of having attended the seminars actively and worked out all assigned tasks. Students have to pass a credit test reaching 60% points as minimum.
Examination has a written and an oral part.

Course curriculum

1. Financial economy
Banks and money
Office; Marketing
Companies, sectors; Product
Departments; Trade fairs

2. Job safety; Legal forms of companies
Order processing; Private companies
Payments; Capital companies
Accounting; Consolidation of corporations

3. Product; Economic competition
Advertising; Patent office
Marketing; Taxes

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

The aim of the course is to acquaint the students with language skills used in professional communication (reading, listening, speaking, writing) and provides them with basic terminology and specific structures of professional language.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Attendance at seminars is systematically checked by the teacher. Absence may be in justified cases compensated for by the agreement with the teacher.
Direct teaching:
- obligatory 15 hours
Indirect teaching:
- Self-study related to the 1st part 45 hours
- Self-study related to the 2nd part 45 hours
- Self-study related to the 2rd part 45 hours
Consultations 5 hours

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Materiály ÚJ FSI VUT v Brně.

Recommended reading

BECKER, Norbert, BRAUNERT, Jörg, SCHLENKER Wolfram. Unternehmen Deutsch Aufbaukurs, Stuttgart: Klett ISBN: ISBN: 978-3-12-675745-4
BUHLMANN, Rosemarie, Geld- und Bankwesen, Warszawa: Poltext 2000. ISBN 83-86890-80-0
Studijní opory ke kurzu na www.vutbr.cz/elearning.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme MGR-KS Master's

    branch MGR-ŘEP-KS , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch MGR-PFO-KS , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

39 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

PhDr. Zdeňka Myšková