UNIcert IV/2 Englisch der Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften - Einzelansicht

Note:

This course will be held fully online until further notice at its scheduled times starting the week of April 12. You will receive access information on the evening before the course begins via e-mail from your teacher if you have been admitted to it.

Dieser Kurs wird bis auf Weiteres komplett online durchgeführt. Genaue Zugriffsinformationen erhalten Sie am Abend, bevor der Kurs beginnt, von Ihrer Lehrkraft per E-Mail, falls Sie bis zu diesem Zeitpunkt zugelassen worden sind.

Literature

Course material, provided online through the course Moodle, is compiled from but not limited to the following sources:

• THE CASE STUDY HANDBOOK. William Ellet. Harvard Business Review Press 2007. 978 1 4221 0158 2.
• ANALYZING A CASE STUDY. Vanessa van der Ham. Pocket Study Skills, Kate Williams, ed. Macmillan 2016. 978 1 137 56620 1.
• PRESENTATION ZEN (2d ed.) by Garr Reynolds.
• ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC RESEARCH.  Adrian Wallwork.  Springer 2013.  978-1-4614-4267-7.
• ENGLISH GRAMMAR IN USE (3rd ed.) by Raymond Murphy. Cambridge 2004. Third edition.
• OXFORD ACADEMIC ENGLISH by Ken Paterson.  Oxford

Prerequisites

Certificates

The number of credit points awarded for successful completion of each course is determined by the Course and Examination Regulations (StPO) of each student’s degree program.

Certificate: THIS IS THE CERTIFICATE COURSE.  

The certificate UNIcert® IV English for Economics/Business Studies and Social Sciences -- is awarded upon successful completion of the UNIcert® IV certificate exams at the end of this course.

Final Exam: A four-part exam, each testing a separate language skill area: reading comprehension, listening comprehension, written expression, oral expression.

Each exam is given separately and on different days. 

The four test scores (reading comprehension, written expression, listening comprehension and oral expression) are weighted equally to determine the final grade for this course and the level of proficiency to be indicated on the certificate.

Learning Content

The aim of this course is build on the success of the previous semester to strengthen a student’s English language skills to the level of an extremely competent academic level, using business case studies developed by leading business schools as a platform to exercise reading comprehension and text analysis, as well as develop analytical and critical thinking abilities, reasoning skills (deductive reasoning), and rhetorical constructions in written and oral expression in either positing solutions to actual problems or critiquing an implemented solution

Target Group

Students with advanced English language skills who wish to improve their academic writing, critical thinking, argumentation and presentation skills, and have successfully completed the previous semester English IV/1 course.