Business English (5 cr)
Code: 3011391-3024
General information
- Enrollment
- 21.12.2020 - 20.01.2021
- Registration for the implementation has ended.
- Timing
- 11.01.2021 - 04.06.2021
- Implementation has ended.
- Number of ECTS credits allocated
- 5 cr
- Local portion
- 2 cr
- Virtual portion
- 3 cr
- Mode of delivery
- Blended learning
- Campus
- Kupittaa Campus
- Teaching languages
- English
- Seats
- 0 - 52
- Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Business
- Teachers
- Anne-Marie Jünger
- Päivi Nygren
- Pirjo Kavander-Agge
- Course
- 3011391
Evaluation scale
H-5
Content scheduling
• Studies and work experience
• Operations and organisation of a company
• Marketing
• Purchasing process and sales negotiations
• Financing and profitability
During the course weeks
Objective
The student can both orally and in writing:
- describe the content and structure of his/her studies, training and working experience,
- introduce the operations and organization of a company and tell about different types of company forms as well as types of duties within a company,
- compile a professional job application and act in a job interview,
- communicate using right formality, vocabulary and phrases through a purchasing process (from an enquiry to an order, complaints, adjustments),
- analyze and tell about current business news in various Finnish media
- make and maintain contacts by phone, email, face-to-face
Content
Telling about the student’s own education, training and work experience. The student understands and can use appropriate business vocabulary and phrases both orally and in writing when describing the operations of a company, business environment, products and processes.
Making and maintaining contacts, discussing current business news, practising presentation skills. Compiling a job application and CV, acting in a job interview. Documentation used in a purchasing process.
Materials
Becoming an Entrepreneur 2020
Teaching methods
Distance lessons using Zoom-application, individual and group work, individual and group studies and assignments, online learning
Student workload
5 credits = 135 h student work
Evaluation methods and criteria
Active participation in all lessons (online), absolute minimum 75%
Course works evaluation according to Common European Frame of Reference (eurooppalainen arviointitaulukko)
All the course assignments have to be completed
Failed (0)
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Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1-2)
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Assessment criteria, good (3-4)
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Assessment criteria, excellent (5)
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Further information
Opetustunnit toteutuvat etäopetuksena. Kutsu Zoom (tai Teams ympäristöön) lähetetään hieman ennen kunkin opetuskerran alkua jokaisen opiskelijan sähköpostiin.
Tarvittaessa opettaja on tavattavissa yksittäisen opiskelijan kurssiin liittyvien kysymysten puitteessa koululla erikseen sovittava aikana.