Spanish for Business 3 (LL312)

Summary

Level:

This is the core language module of the IB degree in the fourth year following student placement in a Spanish-speaking country during their third year. Students will already have taken LL128 and LL223 in their first and second years respectively.

Main Objectives:

The module will develop further students’ fluency and accuracy in written and spoken Spanish.

Weighting:

24 CREDITS

Teaching:

One 2-hour language class each week for 21 weeks plus independent learning.

Availability/Location of module within courses:

As the fourth year core module for the BSc (Hons) International Business degree (Spanish strand).

Tutor:

Susana Jackson-Houlston

Course Texts (must be bought by student):

Francisca Castro, Uso de la gramática española: nivel avanzado (Madrid: Edelsa, 2011) ISBN 978-84-7711-7148

Dossier of texts and articles from newpapers, journals and web-based material. (Provided by tutor).

Additional material:

Suplementary material will include articles, audivisual material and other authentic resources which will be available on the Moodle webpage of the module .

Learning Outcomes:

Understand and communicate effectively at near native speaker level using appropriate register, vocabulary and style.
Write reports, analyses, and other documents pertinent to international business and current affairs with a high degree of accuracy and with due regard to the formalities of conducting business in a range of Spanish-speaking countries.
Discuss in speech and writing a range of economic, political and educational topics.
Demonstrate an extensive knowledge of national structures and business practice and the contexts in which they operate in a number of Spanish-speaking countries.
Use a wide range of evidence in presenting and discussing topics using multiple approaches, sources and media, including documentary, bibliographical, statistical, etc.

Syllabus:

El mundo laboral: cartas y entrevistas de trabajo
El mundo laboral II: tipos de contratos
Franquicias y negocios hispanos
Inditex: la receta del éxito
Las compañías startup
El comercio justo
La "movilidad exterior" o cómo nos fuimos de España
El fin del bipartidismo en España
Las cumbres iberoamericanas. Mercosur
La mujer en el mundo laboral
La tecnología en la economía
La rebelión del consumidor.

Communicative skills:

Repaso del imperativo y la voz pasiva.
Ser y estar con expresiones idiomáticas.
Oraciones Condicionales y sus conectores.
Usos del subjuntivo.
Perífrasis verbales.
Verbos con infinitivo o gerundio
Modismos.
Acentuación.

Assessment Scheme:

Assessment

Marking criteria (written): Marking criteria (written) levels 6 and 7 Fr/Span

Marking criteria (oral): Marking criteria (oral) levels 6 and 7