Course detail

German for Business Communication 2

FP-NOP2Acad. year: 2012/2013

The course follows up on language studied at the secondary school. It requires good knowledge of general language at pre-intermediate level as minimum. 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

Successful completion of the course is conditional on regular completion of the course in the winter 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 50% points as minimum.
Examination has a written and an oral part.The credit test and exam have 1 regular term and two resits.

Course curriculum

1. Product
2. Order processing
3. Business travel
4. Transport –car, weather
5. Orientation
6. Hotel, Business lunch
7. Advertising
8. Marketing, Trade fair
8. Payments
10. Accounting
11. Presentation
12. Argumentation
13. Credit test

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

Students’ participation and their work in the exercises are systematically controlled. Absence may be compensation for by the agreement with the teacher.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Studijní opory:ke kurzu: www.vutbr.cz/elearning (CS)
M. Hiiemäe - Němčina v obchodní praxi - Handelskontakte, LEDA, 2001, ISBN: 80-85927-77-2 (DE)

Recommended reading

Studijní opory:http://www.kj.fme.vutbr.cz/studopory/de/grammar/mluvnice.pdf (CS)
Studijní opory:http://www.kj.fme.vutbr.cz/studopory/de/topics/Geschaftskontakte.pdf (DE)
Studijní opory:http://www.kj.fme.vutbr.cz/studopory/de/topics/Geschaftskorrespondenz.pdf (DE)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme MGR Master's

    branch MGR-UFRP , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective

  • Programme BAK Bachelor's

    branch BAK-EP , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch BAK-UAD , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch BAK-EPM , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective

Type of course unit

 

Language exercise

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

PhDr. Zdeňka Myšková