Avoin yo: Business Studies for English Competence

About this programme

This course is a phenomenon-based learning experience which has a focus on the major language learning skills areas such as reading, writing, speaking and listening as well as field-related vocabulary expansion. This course is held entirely in Zoom. Moodle is used as the main workspace and active participation in the course is mandatory. The course includes individual work and pair or group work and the course is project-based and all projects must be completed successfully. All deadlines must be met as well. The course includes 8 projects and the course includes the adoption of entrepreneurial ways of thinking and operating such as creative and strategic thinking and planning, thinking on your feet, flexibility, commitment and the ability to pivot when needed. These skills are practiced within the context of different fields of business as the course is integrated with courses in the subject studies through the shared use of the same textbooks which are required reading for the subject courses of Management, Accounting, Marketing and Economics. In this course, the student is at the same time learning and practicing entrepreneurial mindset and skills, many generic skills, learning and practicing English and learning the same content that must be learned in the subject courses. This course supports the student as he or she makes the first contact into the linguistic world of these areas of study.