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Indicative contents:

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   Oral communication in professional contexts, e.g.
   
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     Presentations and debates
     
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     Discussions and negotiations with English-speaking colleagues
     
2. 
   Written communication in professional contexts, e.g.
   
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     Summaries and reports
     
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     Business letters and emails
     
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     Essays
     
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   Listening and reading, e.g.
   
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     Following speakers and lectures
     
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     Understanding news and reports on the radio and television
     
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     Interpreting and summarizing information from English-language professional publications
     
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   Discussions on topics relevant to the profession, e.g.
   
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     Ethics and rights when working with children and adults
     
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     Communicational competence
     
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     International work
     

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   Subject-related competencies according to individual level
   
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     Increased ability to communicate using professional and specialist foreign language; Improvement in individual competence level (A1-C1)
     
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     Understanding and use of English specialist terms in the field of work
     
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     Competence in reading and writing
     
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     Ability to discuss with individuals and groups
     
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     Ability to deal with English-language texts while studying and in research
     
2. 
   Generic competencies
   
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     Ability to use strategies to decipher the unknown, e.g. other cultures, unfamiliar thoughts or behaviour, challenging texts, unknown words and sentence structures
     
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     Ability to see language as a means to recognize diverse cultural rationalities, to enable intercultural competence, to develop the willingness to accept and respect people from different linguistic and cultural communities
     
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     Strategies for independent learning, e.g. using dictionaries
     

2 credits: 15 hours (lectures), 15 hours (seminars), 30 hours (independent study supervising), 30 hours (independent study).