| 1. General language competences
Building on French Communicative Skills and Business French 1 & 2, students extend knowledge of language learning strategies and communication strategies appropriate to B2.2 level. They are able to produce and understand French at a B2.2 level according to the CEFR.
2. Specific language competences
The students have a clear awareness of challenges in intercultural communication and issues of conducting business in contemporary multilingual and multicultural settings.
Students are keenly aware of register variation in French and can use a wide repertoire of language skills appropriately depending on interlocuter and communicative context. They can summarise, interpret and present clearly and reliably in French information and salient points expressed in another language they know; therefore, acting as reliable mediators in multilingual business contexts.
They are able to define and express the main distinctive features of their national culture, and to detect and analyse certain salient points which may interfere in their relations or communication with representatives of the target country.
They are able to interpret certain ways of thinking, acting and communicating that are specific to the target country's culture and to react to them in an appropriate manner.
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Learning Outcomes
- Assess one's identity and and culture or the value systems on which they are based, followed by appropriate comparisons with the target culture(s).
- Analyse stereotypes about one's own and the target culture.
- Identify culture-specific patterns of thought, behaviour and action of the target culture in various situations and areas (e.g. communication, meetings, problem-solving approaches, advertising, politics and social life, attitudes towards and the value of money and work, etc.) and compare these with those of their own culture in order to recognise, prevent or defuse potential conflicts which may result from them.
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- Culture and cultural identity : components and definitions
- Brief theoretical approach to intercultural communication through an introduction to the main concepts and theories of the discipline
- National identities; self-perception vs perception of other cultures : values, heroes and stereotypes
- Perception of space and its implications in various areas
- Perception of time and its implications : monochrony/polychrony; high vs low-context cultures, etc.
- Cuture and economy :
a) Relevance and valuation of politics, money and economics for individuals & society; status symbols; consumer and savings behaviour; attitude to globalisation, technology, etc.
b) Relevance and valuation of work for individuals and society : motivation, self-realisation through work; relationships & conflicts at work
Learning Outcomes
1. Acquisition of knowledge relating to...
... the most important theoretical approaches and models of intercultural communication and their implications in a range of concrete situations, not least in professional and business life
... individual, specific, business-relevant phenomena or socio-political problem areas in the target culture
2. [if needed] Aspects of grammar and vocabulary development necessary for linguistic and communicative competences at B2.2 level
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