Business English (5 cr)

Evaluation scale

H-5

Content scheduling

• Studies and work experience
• Operations and organisation of a company
• Presenting and pitching
• Marketing
• Purchasing process and sales negotiations
• Financing and profitability

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 2021" - course material given in the lessons

Teaching methods

Contact lessons, individual and group studies and assignments, online learning and lessons using Zoom-application

Pedagogic approaches and sustainable development

Future work life related innovation pedagogy

Student workload

5 credits = 135 h student work for contact lessons, individual studies and course assignments as well as group assignments, online learning and lessons

Evaluation methods and criteria

ACTIVE PARTICIPATION IN ALL LESSONS
ABSOLUTE MINIMUM ABSENCE 25%
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

For some of the course assignments a web camera is a requirement !! For example the official individual VideoCV course work.