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Instructors: Maura-Dell O Mahony
Event type:
Seminar
Displayed in timetable as:
BWL, Recht EN
Hours per week:
2
Credits:
6,0
Note: In your exam regulations, differing credits may have been specified.
Language of instruction:
English
Min. | Max. participants:
10 | 24
Comments/contents:
PLEASE ATTEND THE FIRST SESSION
Please have a look at the following: https://www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de/en/fachbereich-sozoek/studium/englisch-am-fachbereich.html
Target group:
Although this course caters specifically for students who have chosen to major in Business Administration or Labour & Commercial Law, students of Sociology and Economics are also welcome to participate.
Maximum no. of participants: 24
Possible placement test: beginning of term
Participation in the first session is a must; prior registration on STiNE is not sufficient to ensure a place.
Prerequisites:
Students must have a good, upper-intermediate level of English - Level B2, Independent User - according to the CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference).
Students should be in their third year of studies.
Students must be prepared to participate actively and also, where required, to work as part of a team.
Interdisciplinary openness and cooperation are expected of all students who wish to participate in this course.
Learning objectives:
- Oral presentations: students improve their English oral skills (passive and active).
- Preparing a subject-specific vocabulary list on a topic of interest and relevance: students improve their knowledge of specific and useful terminology and share this knowledge with the rest of the class.
- Reading the chosen texts: students improve their English reading comprehension skills.
- Questions-and-answers and discussion sessions after the presentations: students improve their active English oral skills.
- Discussion of the articles: students improve their active English oral skills.
- Presenting on their chosen topic as well as participating in questions-and-answers and discussions sessions, also on topics chosen by other students, should help students to improve their oral skills in the chosen field of study and interest.
- Writing the summaries and critiques: helps students to develop and improve their academic writing skills.
- Specific terminology should be actively acquired, activated and consolidated in this course (oral and written).
- Students will receive extensive feedback from the lecturer on their presentations and prepared material (vocabulary list, summary and critique).
- All of the above is done in a study-specific context.
Didactic concept:
- Individual, partner or group presentations on topics specifically related to the chosen area of study, i.e. Economics and Sociology.
- A vocabulary list per topic is to be prepared and made available to all members of the class in advance of each presentation.
- Topic-related texts/articles, written by native speakers, aimed at an 'expert' audience (selected by lecturer and/or those due to present); to be read by all class members in advance of each presentation.
- Each presentation is followed by a questions-and-answers session and discussion on the topic.
- Each presentation is followed by a discussion on the article.
- Each presentation is followed by feedback from fellow students and the lecturer.
- Each student is expected to write two 1,000-1,500-word texts on 1) the article on the topic of their own and 2) of another presentation. These texts are to consist of a summary and critique of the chosen articles.
Literature:
Documents selected and/or prepared by lecturer and/or students and posted on e-learning platform CommSy/MS Teams.
Additional examination information:
Regular and active participation, oral presentation, presentation materials (vocabulary list, discussion tasks), peer evaluation, academic writing (summaries and critiques of the chosen article).
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