Código y Nombre de la Asignatura: IGL 1370 - BUSINESS ENGLISH III |
División Académica:
Instituto de Idiomas
Departamento Académico: Dpto. Lenguas Extranjeras IGL 1360 Calificación Mínima de 3.0 o Homo. Inglés Negocios Int. 003 o Certificado Inglés Negocios In 003 o Examen Clasif.Inglés Negocios 003 Número de créditos: Intensidad horaria (semanal para nivel pregrado y total para nivel postgrado): 4.000 Horas de Teoría 0.000 Horas de Laboratorio Niveles: Educación Continua, Educación Superior Pregrado Tipos de Horario: Teoría This course is addressed to the International Business students who have reached a B1.1 level of the CEFR on their placement test or to those who have completed the previous level, Business English II. This level focuses on developing the four linguistic skills: reading, writing, speaking and listening with an emphasis on vocabulary related to the area of Business. 3. Rationale. Globalization has brought many challenges that all professionals need to face in order to be more competitive and marketable. Among these challenges is the need to adopt a foreign language that would facilitate communication within the international environment at a professional and personal level. The Instituto de Idiomas has designed this Business English program for students in the International Business program in order to contribute to their intellectual, professional and cultural development through English. 4. Course goal. This course provides students with a general introduction to Business themes while developing their communicative competence in English in the four linguistic skills—listening, reading, speaking, and writing. Students will also build their business and critical thinking skills while continuing to use and learn international business-related vocabulary. Students during the course should be developing a B1.2 level of English. 5. Specific objectives. At the end of the course, students will be able to: Identify general and specific information within a text and make inferences. Use context to identify meaning. Write simple, compound and complex sentences. Write a recommendation report usomg memo format, and write a press release. Identify genera and specific information within monologues, and hort and lond conversations. Identify communication strategies dusring a telephone call. Take part of a discussion where students will share and support ideas. Discuss and build on knowledge and vocabulary on culture, organizational structure, organizational management, and supply chain management. In addition, the following grammatical structures will be covered in the course: review of tenses; modals, passive voice, and question forms in a variety of tenses. These will be taught in-class and through laboratory work throughout the semester. 6. Course topics Topic 1 Culture and its impact Topic 2 Organisations and their structures Topic 3 Managing organisations Topic 4 Supply chain management (SCM) 7. Bibliography of the course Business Advantage (Intermediate) |
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