UNIcert III/2 Englisch der Wirtschaftswissenschaften - Einzelansicht

GROUP 1: THE ONLINE COURSES WILL TAKE PLACE AT THEIR SCHEDULED TIMES STARTING THE WEEK OF NOVEMBER 02.

GROUPS 2 and 3: THE ONLINE COURSES WILL TAKE PLACE AT THEIR SCHEDULED TIMES STARTING THE WEEK OF NOVEMBER 09.

THE DAY BEFORE THE COURSE BEGINS, YOU WILL RECEIVE ACCESS INFORMATION TO YOUR COURSE. 

This ONLINE COURSE OFFERING is the second part of the UNIcert® III English for Economics and Business Studies certificate course which introduces students to the business case study analysis process, and uses this context to strengthen reading comprehension and text analysis, as well as develop analytical and critical thinking abilities, problem solving, reasoning skills, and rhetorical constructions in written and oral expression in positing solutions to business problems.

Working in a strict timeframe, each student will choose a case study to analyze based on their expressed area of interest and then develop a case analysis and present possible solutions to the business problem in an ONLINE presentation, giving evidence based on the text and independent research and discovery why their proposed solution is the optimal of possible alternatives.

From the library of ONLINE study materials available, each student will also complete an independent study portfolio of their own creation to expand their vocabulary, strengthen their grammar knowledge and practice, and increase their language comprehension skills.

Course material is compiled from but not limited to the following sources:

• 10 ACT PRACTICE TESTS by Steve Dulan. McGraw-Hill. (Reading comprehension, sentence correction)
• ADVANCED GRAMMAR IN USE by Martin Hewings.  Cambridge
• CAE PRACTICE TESTS.  Pearson Education. (Reading comprehension)
• CAMBRIDGE PRACTICE TESTS FOR IELTS Editions 1-14. Cambridge 1995-2018. (Reading comprehension)
• THE CASE STUDY HANDBOOK, A STUDENT'S GUIDE by William Ellet.  Harvard Business Review Press.
• THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO THE TOEFL TEST by Bruce Rogers.  Academic ESL. (Vocabulary)
• ENGLISH GRAMMAR IN USE by Raymond Murphy.  Cambridge.
• National Public Radio podcasts (www.npr.org) (Listening comprehension)

This course requires the successful completion of any UNIcert® III/1 English course at the University of Potsdam in order to enroll OR a score of 80% or higher on the placement test.  

Any student who has successfully completed a UNIcert® III/1 in an area other than Economics and Business Studies at the University of Potsdam is invited to register for this course, BUT is advised to speak to the course instructor prior to enrollment.

Please be aware that a score of 90 – 100% on the placement test ALSO qualifies a student to take UNIcert® IV/1 English for Economics and Business Studies offered this semester (Winter Semester 2020/21)..