English for Professionals

Ano letivo: 2018/2019 - 1S

Cursos

Responsável Docente Responsabilidade Elisabete Cristina Simões Lopes Responsável

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Língua de Ensino

Inglês

Objetivos de aprendizagem (conhecimentos, aptidões e competências a desenvolver pelos estudantes)

•Development of reading and comprehension strategies in the area of business;
•Become familiar with technical vocabulary (terms and concepts) used in the business/professional context;
•Understanding and discussing articles in the context of business;
•Produce texts in the context of business;
•Development of critical reasoning when analysing business articles/documents;
•Acquisition of knowledge to present a topic by using PowerPoint;
•Improving team-work skills;
•Apply grammar structures in a correct way.

Conteúdos programáticos

•Career Management;
• Intercultural communication/ business;
• Company culture;
• Leadership;
•Entrepreneurship;
•Marketing and advertising;
•Innovation;
•Business and Technology /E-business);
•Case-studies discussion;
•Other topics relevant in a business context;
• Grammar recycling.

Demonstração da coerência dos conteúdos programáticos com os objetivos de aprendizagem da UC

Active methodologies (task-based learning) and collaborative work (in-class and outside classes).

Metodologias de ensino

Continuous assessment.

Metodologia e provas de avaliação

Continuous assessment.

Test 1 and Test 2 = 50%
Group Project: Business Report and PowerPoint Presentation - 50%

Minimum mark: 10

Exam (for students who score less than 10):
Written exam- 50%
Business Report and PowerPoint Presentation - 50%

Regime de assiduidade

Not applicable.

Bibliografia

Articles taken from periodicals related with the business area: Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, Business Spotlight.

Observações

Students who are unable to attain a minimum grade -10- in the period of the continuous assessment, will be eligible for a recovery test.

The group project is a mandatory part of the assessment (50%) and its mark will also be taken into account as far as the recovery test is concerned (50%). Therefore, students who don't submit it, will not be graded.