Business and Logistics English

Lehrinhalte

Topics: • Competition within industries • International trade • Entrepreneurship • International and strategic outsourcing: avoiding outsourcing pitfalls • The economic environment • Porter’s Five Forces • Theory of competition • Terms of economic convergence and divergence • Ways of fostering entrepreneurship • Government influence on the economic environment • The impact of signing a free trade agreement – reasons for and against from business and government perspectives • Operations Management • Production management • Manufacturing and engineering • Procurement and purchasing • Supply chain management and logistics • Lean management • Lean production • Quality • The work of a logistics manager • Globalization and economic policy • Reduction of carbon footprint • Sustainable logistics and warehousing Oral language skills: • Writing effective emails • Writing business reports with an accurate structure and layout. Report types: assessment report, memo report, proposal writing, executive summary

Art der Vermittlung

Präsenzveranstaltung

Art der Veranstaltung

Pflichtfach

Empfohlene Fachliteratur

Lisboa, Martin and Michael Handford: Business Advantage. C1-C2. Student’s Book Advanced with DVD. Cambridge University Press. Latest edition. Handouts from course lecturers. Magazines: The Economist, Supply Chain Management, The Wall Street Journal, Logistics Management Magazine, Inbound Logistics.

Lern- und Lehrmethode

Input, blended learning, discussion, online quizzes, pair and group work, presentations

Prüfungsmethode

Continuous assessment (50 %): active class participation, assignments, vocabulary quizzes, presentations and mini research projects. Online written exam (50 %): about the topics worked on in class and in self-study phases after the last class.

Voraussetzungen laut Lehrplan

European Framework of Reference for Languages: B2

Schnellinfos

Unterrichtssprache

Englisch

Studienjahr, in dem die Lerneinheit angeboten wird

WS2027

Incoming

Nein

Lernergebnisse der Lehrveranstaltung

After successful completion of the course, students are able • to describe, discuss and debate complex economic topics and issues in English, • to present these topics in English in a convincing and academically correct manner and express their opinion on them, • to write clearly formulated emails and business reports as well as executive summaries.

Kennzahl der Lehrveranstaltung

1392-21-01-BB-DE-10