Foreign Language Skills I: Current Topics

Contents

• Development of a technical vocabulary with an emphasis on economy and politics
• Basic principles of research, processing and evaluation of news
• Contextualizing of selected aspects of the contents taught in the economic lectures
• Provision of regional topics
• Encouragement of listening and reading comprehension as well as oral and written capability of expression

Learning outcomes
Students acquire apart from the competent handling with different news media the critical treatment of current topics from the fields of politics, society and economy. This includes research according to basic scientific rules and the comparison of different sources, as well as the critical examination with varying approaches and culturally coined views. Apart from the acquisition of technical economic vocabulary, the goal of this seminar is the fortification of the communicative competencies and language skills in their respective contexts.

Necessary prerequisites
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Recommended prerequisites
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Examiner Performing lecturer

Christiane Koch Linh Thlang Linh Thlang, Christiane Koch