LEARNING OUTCOMES (LOs)
After successfully completing this course, students will be able:

• (LO1) to demonstrate a level of English communicative competence equivalent to B2 on the Common European Framework with respect to reading, writing, and listening skills;
• (LO2) to understand and apply important concepts from the fields of business communication, company organization, marketing, customer relations, and business transactions, and to recall and appropriately use the essential terminology and other typical features (structures, collocations, etc) associated with them;
• (LO3) to combine the various abilities mentioned above in order to understand intermediate level written texts about these business fields, and to write appropriate passages of communications relating to them;
• (LO4) to write various types of business correspondence for the purposes of
  informing and of responding to requests, questions and complaints;
• (LO5) to understand and interpret content from a variety of recorded oral business communications and lectures.

In addition, this course fosters the ability:

• to explain and summarise, in German (or other native language), English texts relating to the business fields mentioned; and
• to engage in spoken business communication in a variety of conexts such as telephone conversations, meetings and presentations.

The course is divided into ten units, each centred on an aspect of one of the business fields mentioned in learning outcome LO2 above. Classes (one for each of these units) involve a range of activities, including:

• discussion of tricky content issues;
• vocabulary development and reinforcement of grammatical structures;
• listening comprehension;
• text production; and
• examination preparation.

If you satisfy the attendance requirement above (see 'Regelung zur Anwesenheit'), your final score will be made up of the following elements:

• Mid-Semester Test - 20%
• Home Exercise - 5%
• Participation - 5%
• Final Test - 70%

In general, no dictionaries or other reference materials are allowed in the two tests. Exceptionally, if you are neither a German nor an English native speaker, you may use a bilingual dictionary of German and your mother tongue (but NOT any form of electronic translation device) in the Final Test only.

If you do not take the Mid-Semester Test or submit the Home Exercise, and you attend no classes after Unit 5, you will receive no grade, and you will not lose an 'Antritt'. Otherwise, your grade will be based on your final score, as follows:

• 0-59% - grade 5
• 60-67% - grade 4
• 68-75% - grade 3
• 76-84% - grade 2
• 85-100% - grade 1

This LV is a PI, so if you receive a grade 5 you will have to re-take EBC1 in a later semester in full (i.e., including class attendance and all 4 assessment elements).