PJI2F Foreign Language I/2 - French

Faculty of Economics and Administration
Spring 2009
Extent and Intensity
0/4/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Helena Hušková (lecturer)
Mgr. Kateřina Sedláčková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Kateřina Sedláčková, Ph.D.
Language Centre, Faculty of Economics and Administration Division – Language Centre
Contact Person: Mgr. Lenka Skoupá
Timetable of Seminar Groups
PJI2F/1: Tue 10:15–11:50 S315, Thu 10:15–11:50 S315, K. Sedláčková
Prerequisites
PJI1F Foreign Language I/1 - F
Succesful completion of the subject PJI1F
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/20, only registered: 0/20, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/20
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
In the second semester the course develops skills covered in the PJI1A course and provides an opportunity to master further topics and skills typical for a more complex communication, and to apply them to professional activities typical of the business environment, such as: - interpretation of graphical data, - communication over telecommunication devices, - taking minutes and - writing up messages. This subject further develops students’ general and business vocabulary as well as grammatical structures typical for technical language. The stress is again put not only on the development of communication skills, but also on the ability to use the acquired knowledge actively. At the end of this course, students should be able to: - understand a general economic text of upper-intermediate difficulty level, - discuss covered economic topics and - orientate themselves in French economic terminology relating to the covered topics.
Syllabus
  • Additional Assistant's Responsibilities: Work Schedules, Business Trips Arrangements
  • Setting Up a Business: Founder's Profile, Raising Capital, Establishment, Start-Up Procedures, Legal Forms of Business, Winding Up
  • The Market and Business Performance, Market Factors
  • Marketing, Market Research, Product Definition, Price, Forms of Customer Communication
  • Doing Business: Points of Sale, Distribution, Selling, Selling Online
  • Business Correspondence: Standard Letter Layout, Enquiry, Offer
Literature
  • BLOOMFIELD, Anatole and Béatrice TAUZIN. Affaires a suivre :cours de français professionnel de niveau intermédiaire. Paris: Hachette, 2001, 192 s. ISBN 2-01-155164-1. info
  • SACHS, Rudolf and Renata POHORSKÁ. Francouzská obchodní korespondence : Correspondance commerciale (Souběž.). 1. vyd. Plzeň: Fraus, 1999, 224 s. ISBN 80-85784-84-X. info
  • PENFORNIS, Jean-Luc. Affaires.com : [méthode de français des affaires : niveau avancé]. Paris: Cle International, 2003, 127 s. ISBN 2090331763. info
Assessment methods
This course is taught only in the form of seminar sessions and it is completed with conferring a credit. Credit requirements include the following: - 80% active participation in seminars (systematic continuous preparation and fulfilling assigned tasks), - 60% success rate in the final credit test, - elaborating a seminar paper (a summary of economic text, written up according to an instructor’s guidelines and handed in by a deadline set by an instructor). If a student commits a prohibited act, such as using various forbidden tools (e.g. cheatsheets), cribbing, taking out any part of the credit test or any other form of cheating, the teacher is allowed to interrupt the test and to grade the student with F, FF or even FFF, according to the seriousness of the offence. The described procedure applies to all the activities that are included in the final evaluation of the course (seminar work).
Language of instruction
French
Follow-Up Courses
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2001, Spring 2002, Autumn 2002, Spring 2003, Autumn 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008.
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