IBM: Business English

  • Credits: 4
  • Ending: Examination
  • Range: 2C
  • Semester: summer
  • Year: 3
  • Faculty of Business Management

Teachers

Included in study programs

Business Economics and Management

Teaching results

Knowledge:
- Developing soft skills in English; working with authentic materials; focusing on expressing a position and defending it, reasoning and problem solving in case studies. Global and selective reading of authentic text. Practicing writing a project, an email, a report. In the teaching of grammar and lexis, practicing communication skills as an integrated whole. Practicing skills to master company and product presentation.
Competence:
- Understand lectures, presentations and interviews on professional topics as well as authentic professional texts.
- be fluent on selected professional topics
- express their views in discussions and presentations and respond appropriately and promptly to suggestions
- formulate ideas, opinions and solutions to problems in writing, while maintaining an appropriate style and structure
Skill:
- Apply acquired soft skills in practice
- be able to express oneself fluently on selected professional topics
- be able to express opinions and requirements in discussions and presentations
- respond appropriately and promptly to stimuli

Indicative content

1. Introductory lesson - defining the conditions for taking the course, getting to know each other
2. IBM as a Company
3. Delivering Quality Work (DQW)
4. Problem Solving (Cognitive Biases, Six Thinking Hats)
5. Enterprise Design Thinking
6. Communicate for Impact
7. Presentation Workshop
8. Emotional Intelligence
9. Visual Basic
10. IBM Skills Build
11. IBM Manager/Senior professional quest speaker session
12. Business Case study work
13. Final lesson - presentations and course output

Support literature

Basic literature:
1. Internal company materials
Supplementary literature:
1. https://skillsbuild.org/

Requirements to complete the course

40 % classroom activity and solving intermediate assignments, 60 % presentation of projects

Student workload

104 h (attendance at seminars 26 h, preparation for seminars 26 h, preparation for exam 52 h)

Date of approval: 09.02.2023

Date of the latest change: 23.05.2022