Academic year
2021-22
Is found in:
- International Curriculum Business, Retail and Languages, programme stage 1
This is a single course unit.
Study load:
5 credits
Weight:
5,00
Total study time: 125,00 hours
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: Mijlemans Birgit
Languages: English
Scheduled for: Semester 1
Final objectives
| As an ambassador of the company or organization, and a connector in the company or organization, communicate in a service-oriented and creative manner in an intercultural, international and multidisciplinary context in Dutch, French, English and either German or Spanish (to be selected) 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 / German or Spanish: CEFR level B1) |
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 emails and social media policy into his or her professional communication in English.
- Take care of business communication regarding purchase and sales in English.
- Describe and apply language structures in English correctly.
- Recognize and parse basic structures and express themselves in a grammatically correct manner
Contents
- In function of correct manners, email, social media policy and business communication: language skills (reading, listening, writing, interaction in a business and professional context of translation and communication), with attention for grammar, vocabulary, style and spelling
- Email and social media policy
- Business letters and emails:
- content: give and get information (written), quotations, orders
- context: everything is offered in the business and professional context of translation and communication
- 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
- Insight in language structures
- sentence structure: 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
Organisation of education
Contactonderwijs48,00 hoursEvaluation
Evaluation(s) for first exam chance
| Moment | Form | % | Remark |
| Inside Regular exam schedule | Skills test | 0,00 | prerequisite to pass: obtain at least 70% on basic module |
| Inside Regular exam schedule | Written examination | 70,00 | |
| Outside exam schedule | Skills test | 30,00 | |
Evaluation(s) for re-sit exam
| Moment | Form | % | Remark |
| Inside Regular exam schedule | Skills test | 0,00 | prerequisite to pass: obtain at least 70% on basic module |
| Inside Regular exam schedule | Written examination | 100,00 | |
This course unit is marked out of 20 (rounded to an integer).
Re-sit exam: is possible.
Study costs
The Standard Student Shop will invoice the cost of books and syllabi. You can check prices on their website: https://hogent.standaardstudentshop.be/nosso. Special study costs related to the programme will be invoiced by the faculty per semester.
Study costs related to the programme are general costs, such as copies, business gifts, maintenance of teaching material, etc. These costs will be invoiced in relation to the credits total per academic year. If you take up:
- 0 to 20 credits : 0 euro
- 21 to 40 credits : 5 euros
- 41 - ... : 10 euros
Other costs that will not be invoiced by the faculty but that students need to pay for themselves: printing costs for Chamilo documents, transportation (abroad, field trips, business sightings, workplace, etc.), external and individual seminars, buying a laptop, etc.
There could be extra costs for guest lectures or field trips if an opportunity would arise.
Possible deadlines for learning account: 01.12.2021 ()