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French Working Environment and PR French

(le monde de l’entreprise francaise et la communication écrite professionnelle)

  • Code:  FRE4LE007
  • Extent: 3 ECTS (81 h)
  • Timing: Semester 3
  • Language: French/ English
  • Competency level: B1
  • Level: professional studies
  • Type: elective*

*required of students who have chosen compulsory French

Prerequisites

Basic Business French 2

Learning outcomes

Upon successful completion of the course, the student

  • understands the French working environment
  • understands the concepts linked to French business life
  • understands cultural differences and can implement this knowledge into practical situations.
  • knows basics of PR-french
  • is able to write more demanding Business documents
  • knows how to find information about enterprises

Course contents

  • vocabulary and concepts of the French economy and business life
  • Case studies and searching of information
  • Business and PR-letters
  • invitations and programmes layout
  • telephone conversation

Teaching and learning methods

Contact hours 32 h
Self-study 48 h
Self-assessment of learning 1 h

Mandatory attendance  80 %

Alternative ways to complete the course

Not attending the contact hours but doing the coursework and taking the test
One alternative available to students is that they complete all of the coursework and take the final exam, without attending the actual contact hours.

Recognition of prior learning (RPL)

A student can demonstrate his or her equivalent language skills relating to the course objectives and content. This must be agreed upon with the teacher no later than two weeks before the course begins. Each student may attempt this only once in the period prior to the giving of the course. Evaluation is on a scale of 1-5.

Contact teachers

Catherine Métivier, Pasila

Course materials

Web-pages
Material provided by the teacher.

Assessment criteria/scale 5-1.

5 excellent 3 good 1 satisfactory

The student:

  • has strong skills in telephone
    communication and is fully
    capable of maintaining a professional
    conversation by phone.
  • has an excellent command of key
    concepts in Business French and
    understands fully the French working
    environment on a cultural basis.
  • can write Business and PR
    documents independently and
    successfully.

The student:

  • has good skills in telephone
    communication and manages
    a professional conversation by
    phone.
  • has an excellent command of
    key concepts in Business French
    and understands to some extend
    the French working environment
    on a cultural basis.
  • can in certain cases write Business
    and PR documents independently and
    successfully.

The student:

  • has limited skills in telephone
    communication and manages
    short and simple professional
    conversations by phone.
  • has limited understanding of the
    French working environment.
  • knows only the basics of French
    Business and PR Communication
    and needs support to write
    Business and PR documents.

Written exam for French vocabulary and terminology of business
Written exam for Business letters and PR documents 60 %
Telephone conversation exam 40 %
Assignments

The self-assessment of learning assignment does not impact your grade. The
assignment is the same for all courses/modules and your answers will be used
also for course/module development. The assignment is completed online in
WinhaOpaali.

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