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

• (LO1) to demonstrate a level of English communicative competence equivalent to B2 (upper) 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, specifically the principles and thinking behind creative management, change management and certain aspects of accounting (e.g. costing), 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 discuss the above fields in an appropriate manner;
• (LO4) to understand the principles of paragraphing, argumentation, and graph descriptions, and to apply these in short written texts;
• (LO5) to understand and interpret content from a variety of recorded oral business communications.

In addition, this course fosters the ability:

• to explain and summarise English texts relating to the business fields mentioned;
• to engage in spoken and written business communication in a variety of contexts, with a focus on achieving communicational goals (in particular in decision-making and negotiating);
• to deliver a well-structured and engaging oral presentation.