Academic year
2018-19
Is found in:
- International Curriculum, programme stage 1
This is a single course unit.
Study load:
3 credits
Weight:
3,00
Total study time: 75,00 hours
Possible deadlines for learning account: 01.12.2018 ()
Organisation of education
This course unit is marked out of 20 (rounded to an integer).
Re-sit exam: is possible.
It is not possible to enrol in this course unit under
- exam contract (to obtain a credit).
- exam contract (to obtain a degree).
Special admission is required to enrol in this course unit under credit contract.
Co-ordinator: Lips Marie
Language course: Yes, English
Languages: English
Scheduled for: Semester 1
Objectives
- Use the productive and receptive language skills purposefully in a general and professional context in English at the CEFR B1 level.
- Integrate the basic principles of email and social media policy into his or her professional communication in English.
- Take care of medical communication regarding asking for information (purchase/sales) in English.
- Describe and apply language structures correctly in English.
Contents
- In function of correct manners, email, social media policy and medical communication:
- Language skills: reading, listening, speaking, writing, interaction in a context of care and a medical context
- With attention for: grammar, vocabulary, style, spelling
- Email and social media policy
- Business letters and emails
- Give and get information (written)
- Quotations
- Orders: context of medical products (instruments, medicines, medical representative)
- Grammar: nouns, possessives, pronouns, articles, demonstratives, quantifiers, prepositions, adjectives, adverbs, tenses, future forms, modal verbs (to express politeness), word order, negatives, question forms, relative clauses
- Basic insight in language structures:
- Sentence structures: simple/compound/complex sentence, basic sentence analysis (subject, verbal group, necessary and unnecessary complements)
- Word types: noun, adjective, adverb, pronoun, conjunction, preposition, verb, articles
- Apply grammar and vocabulary correctly in a business context (oral and written)
- Grammar: nouns, possessives, pronouns, articles, demonstratives, quantifiers, prepositions, adjectives, adverbs, tenses, future forms, modal verbs, word order, negatives, question forms, relative clauses
Order of enrolment
There are no prerequisites for this course.
Final objectives
| As an ambassador of the health care organization, and a connector in the health care organization, communicate in a service-oriented and medically correct manner in an intercultural, international and multidisciplinary context in Dutch, French and English with internal and external stakeholders with various profiles. (Dutch: CEFR level C2 / English: receptive skills CEFR level C1, productive skills level B2 / French: receptive skills CEFR level C1, productive skills level B2) |
Evaluation
Evaluation(s) for first exam chance
| Moment | Form | % | Remark |
| Periodic | Written examination | 100,00 | |
Evaluation(s) for re-sit exam
| Moment | Form | % | Remark |
| Periodic | Written examination | 100,00 | |