Advanced Business German

Course Director: Kristina Knauff

The aim of the course is to extend and deepen knowledge of German as used in professional contexts. Students improve their language proficiency for everyday communicative situations in business-related contexts. Moreover, a special focus will also be given to the intercultural communication dimension.

Evaluation

This course will be evaluated in class at the last session. On the last day of the course you will receive a survey link sent to your SSE email. Ten minutes of class time will be spent on evaluating the course. Please make sure you have a device with access to the Internet when you attend the last class. In addition to this, a mid-course evaluation will be conducted.

Course Administrator: Anna.Meijerberg@hhs.se

The course promotes the acquisition of general and specific language skills (specialized vocabulary, mastery of fundamental grammatical structures). Communicative competence focuses on the following points:

• Oral communication in professional contexts: oral presentation, participation in simulated meetings, presentation of results and case analyses, debates, and defending position.
• Written communication in professional contexts, e.g.: shorter professional text, letters and e-mails, cover letters, meeting minutes, summaries.
• Commenting on graphs and tables.
• Understand authentic business-related documents: e.g. articles and specialized texts.
  Understand audio(visual) documents: interview, presentation and debate about business-related subjects.

Recommended level: B1-level on the CEFR.

In order to have a reasonable expectation of attaining these outcomes, students should have successfully completed course L00116 or already be proficient in German to the B1 level on the CEFR.

Authentic material, diverse texts and articles, links, formative grammar and vocabulary exercises. Material will be announced at course start.

The only grade granted is Pass

Continuous assessment of classroom activities and deliverables, which include one written submission, two individual oral presentations, one reading comprehension, grammar quizzes and other oral exercises as well as active participation in class.

Mandatory attendance (75% minimum).

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