SPR2010 Business and Management English

This course serves as an integral part of the international programme for exchange students. Norwegian students will also be admitted.

Objective

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 in order to take the examinations.

Assessment

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

Contents

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

Syllabus literature

• To be decided.