Foreign Language Skills I: Español para economistas I
Contents
- Labor, occupations, environment and economy, tourism
- Globalization, crisis and unemployment
- Professional life in Spain and Latin America
- Information about corporations
- Sales and trade, acquisition and sales – technical vocabulary of the respective fields
- Sales: types of corporations and their structure
- Cultural studies: socio-political and cultural topics (history, political system, educational and health system, parties and trade unions…)
- Spain and the EU
- The economic condition of Latin America
- Consolidation of word pool in these fields and of different grammatical topics up to GER-level B1/
B2
Learning outcomes
By the end of the module students improved their listening and reading comprehension as well as their basics of language competencies. The students know a well-founded vocabulary and have a broaden cultural and economic knowledge.
Necessary prerequisites
At least 3 years of Spanish in high school with good results (respectively Level B2 of the “Common European Framework of Reference for Languages”; the selection is made with the help of a language test).
Recommended prerequisites
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| Forms of teaching and learning | Contact hours | Independent study time |
|---|---|---|
| Exercise class | 2 SWS | 4 SWS |
| ECTS credits | 2 |
| Graded | yes |
| Workload | 60h |
| Language | other foreign language |
| Form of assessment | Written and/ |
| Restricted admission | yes |
| Further information | FSK info session during first semester |
Performing lecturer | Lecturers of the School of Humanities |
| Frequency of offering | Spring semester |
| Duration of module | 1 semester |
| Range of application | B.Sc. Bus. Adm. |
| Preliminary course work | Obligatory attendance and sufficient participation |
| Program-specific Competency Goals | CG 3 |