Business and Management English

The course is taught entirely in English. The course is open for Norwegian students and exchange students.

Objectives
This course will help you improve your oral and written English for use in business and management situations, whether you need to write e-mail, letters or reports, or make a PowerPoint presentation to an international audience where English is the common language.

Course information
The course assumes students to have a working knowledge of English, and will focus on improving written and oral skills by examining common problem areas for non-native speakers of English, including sentence structure, paragraph construction, prepositions, punctuation and pronoun use. Students will also build their business and management vocabulary through assigned readings and mandatory oral presentations. There will be frequent take-home assignments to help students sharpen their written and oral skills. All students must complete all assignments in order to take the examination.

Assessment
The evaluation will consist of two parts: An individual written exam 4 hrs (75%) and an oral exam (25%).

Contents
Writing and grammar: Sentence structure, paragraph construction, prepositions, punctuation and pronoun use
Expanding business and management vocabulary
Presenting material orally in English
Contemporary business communication

Syllabus literature
Ian MacKenzie, Ian (2002) English For Business Studies : a course for business studies and economics students : student's book. 2.ed.  Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.