Professional Communication in English Laajuus (3 cr)
Course unit code: LTK6012
General information
- Credits
- 3 cr
- Teaching language
- English
- Responsible person
- Johanna Nieminen, Vastuuopettaja
Objective
You are able to take part in English discussions and persuade other people professionally in everyday situations at the workplace. You are able to participate in a design process in English, in speaking and writing. You are able to describe and present processes in English. You are able to represent company and its services and products at a trade fair in English. You are able to take part in projects in spoken and written situations in English.
Content
Contents
- Features of academic English and formal language
- Technical process descriptions
- Spoken presentations in an engineer's job, trade fair communication
- Company terminology, project terminology, process terminology
- Formal and technical writing; reading texts
- Description of statistics and trends (graphs and charts)
- Business messages in the technical field
- Written reports and spoken briefings; summarising
- Communication in meetings
- Persuasive language
- Customer Service
- Communication in projects
- Technical texts