General entry requirements + English 6

The course is designed to develop the student's ability to communicate accurately and effectively in English, both orally and in writing, in a wide range of professional situations.

The course focuses on the following aspects:

1. professional attitude and behaviour;

2. careful organization of textual and visual communication with regard to genre, audience, and purpose;

3. clarity, correctness and concision in writing, as well as detailed proof-reading skills;

4. the acquisition of a varied and accurate contemporary professional vocabulary;

5. teamwork and cross-cultural awareness; and

6. discussion activities and presentations (both impromptu and formal).

After successfully completing the course, the student will be able to:

1. understand professional communication in terms of the interaction of audience, purpose, and genre;

2. use both formal and informal register appropriately;

3. choose grammatical structures which accurately express desired meaning, and edit texts for common errors of grammar, punctuation and style;

4. demonstrate knowledge of vocabulary and natural expressions in English relating to a variety of contemporary business topics and concepts, such as intercultural networking, global relations and finance;

5. understand the dynamics of teamwork and demonstrate an ability to participate actively as a team member;

6. demonstrate rhetorical awareness of the compositional design elements of an image;

7. deliver a formal oral presentation that gains and sustains audience interest in an accent that is understood by a majority of English speakers; and

8. explain what it means to communicate as a professional as well as demonstrate a professional approach, e.g. an ability to work to agreed timetables, manage workloads, and meet deadlines

Learning activities are lectures, seminars, written assignments, oral presentations, self-study of course literature, and independent work.

Assessments together with grading scales, credits and outcomes primarily tested:

Online examination: writing with clarity, correctness, and concision (U/G/VG – 3 credits – learning outcome 3)

Oral presentation (U/G – 3 credits – learning outcomes 1, 5-8)

Writing Assignment 1 (U/G/VG – 3 credits – learning outcomes 1-4, 6, 8)

Writing Assignment 2 (U/G/VG – 3 credits – learning outcomes 1-5, 8)

Portfolio (U/G – 3 credits – learning outcomes 1-4, 8)

Canavor, N. (2018). Business Writing Today: A Practical Guide. 3rd edition. Los Angeles. Sage Publications. ISBN: 9781506388328

Taylor, S. (2009). Communication: Your Key to Success. Singapore. Marshall Cavendish Business. ISBN: 9789812616753

You may be provided with other course material by your course tutor as appropriate, up to a maximum of 250 pages.

Malmö University provides students who participate in, or who have completed a course, with the opportunity to express their opinions and describe their experiences of the course by completing a course evaluation administered by the University. The University will compile and summarise the results of course evaluations. The University will also inform participants of the results and any decisions relating to measures taken in response to the course evaluations. The results will be made available to the students (HF 1:14).

If a course is no longer offered, or has undergone significant changes, the students must be offered two opportunities for re-examination based on the syllabus that applied at the time of registration, for a period of one year after the changes have been implemented.

If a student has a Learning support decision, the examiner has the right to provide the student with an adapted test, or to allow the student to take the exam in a different format. The syllabus is a translation of a Swedish source text.