Business Italian for Intermediate Students III.
- Credits: 3
- Ending: Examination
- Range: 2C
- Semester: summer
- Year: 2
- Faculty of Commerce
Teachers
Included in study programs
Teaching results
Language knowledge: mastering the basic principles of professional language.
Language skills: the student is able to use receptive and productive language skills at the required level and is able to create a clear comprehensible text on professional topics, he/she understands the main ideas in a clear standard speech, understands texts, is able to react in various situations which are typical for private and professional life.
Language competencies: effective use of acquired language skills which are necessary for student’s successful application in practice and for social, academic or professional purposes.
Indicative content
1. Company Management
2. Business Negotiations
3. Products Brads “Made in Italy”
4. Inernational Market
5. Italy-Slovac trade cooperation
6. Case study
Support literature
Cherubini, N: Convergenze: Iperlibro di italiano per affari, Roma,Bonacci editore, 2012, 347 p. ISBN 978-88-7573-438-1
Pelizza, G. – Mezzadri, M.: L‘italiano in azienda. Perugia:Guerra Edizioni, 2002, 207p. ISBN 978-88-7715-605-1
Complementary articles from the current Italian press and the Internet.
Syllabus
Week 1 Company mangement (definition, management functions) Week 2 Leadership styles Week 3 Company structure Week 4 General principles of business negotiations Week 5 Preparation and course of business negotiations Week 6 Prestige of products “Made in Italy” Week 7 “Made in Italy” brands protection Week 8 International trade system, Italian economic background Week 9 Italian political and cultural environement Week 10 Italian capital in Slovakia Week 11 Business negotiations etiquette Week 12 Strategic Italian Businesses in Slovakia Week 13 Case study
Requirements to complete the course
Activity at seminars – 20 %
Homework assignments – 10 %
Results of the final exam – 70 %
Student workload
78h:
26 h participation at seminars
26 h preparation for seminars
26 h preparation for exam
Language whose command is required to complete the course
Italian
Date of approval: 14.02.2023
Date of the latest change: 11.01.2022