70 hours
Credit value: 9 ECTS
Summary:
You are expected to improve your knowledge of modern French language in informal and business situations. In general communication situations: informal and formal communication, spoken and written language, language misunderstandings and discrimination.
Business French: the recognition of business opportunities (job offers), writing a motivation letter and CV, preparing for a job interview, business correspondence, polite forms, website writing, new media communication (blogs, Twitter), organising business meetings/trips, writing a description of products and services.
Presenting local culture in the francophone world: identifying opportunities, selecting a project based on certain arguments, summing up essential advantages and disadvantages, elements of argumentation in discourse (agreeing, disagreeing, causes, consequences).
Tourism: tourism as an element toward multiculturalism and against discrimination, professions within the tourist industry, tourism on a global scale, neurodiversity as a basis for understanding interculturalism.
Learning Outcomes and Objectives
After taking this course, you will gain knowledge in:
- The need for understanding specifics of different cultures
- The role of French language in relation to international social processes
- Argumentative techniques
- The efficient application of business communication in Francophone countries
- Decision-making in mediating linguistic, historical or administrative specifics into another culture
- Reflection via the critical evaluation of intercultural communication
- Preventing negative effects of wrong linguistic decisions
Teaching and Learning Methods
Frontal teaching, working in smaller groups or pair work, independent student work, e-learning. Teaching methods will include explanation, conversation/discussion, working with texts, case studies, roleplay, and student presentations.
Assessment
Presentations, coursework activities, project work, classroom cooperation and classroom presence
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