Course Topics
The Advanced Technical Language course aims to prepare students for the presentation of a start-up company they have designed themselves. The lessons cover topics that lead to this goal. When planning and implementing the project, the necessary language skills are presented and practised in a realistic context. Topics covered • Job profiles; • Companies: organisation, key data and presentation, corporate identity; • Trade fairs, orders, sales; • Product, manufacturing, marketing.

Teaching format
Active participation of course participants in teaching activities; partner and group work as important social forms of teaching.

Educational objectives
Knowledge and understanding (A4b2) Area: Economics Knowledge of the mechanisms underlying effective communication of theoretical and empirical economic arguments in three languages: Italian, German and English Area: Understanding business management Knowledge of the underlying mechanisms for effective communication of theoretical and empirical economic arguments in three languages: Italian, German and English Area: Law Knowledge of the underlying mechanisms for effective communication of legal topics in three languages: Italian, German and English Area: Quantitative methods for decision making Knowledge of the mechanisms underlying effective communication of quantitative topics in three languages: Italian, German and English Ability to apply knowledge and understanding (A4b2) Area : Economics Be able to communicate the results of economic analyses prepared according to international professional standards in three languages: Italian, German and English. Area: Understanding business management be able to apply appropriate concepts, models, tools and techniques to analyse markets, market strategies, programmes and activities in teamwork and communicate research results in accordance with international professional standards in three languages: Italian, German and English be able to communicate the results of strategic analyses prepared according to international professional standards in three languages: Italian, German and English Field: Law be able to find and use national, European and international legal sources be able to communicate the results of legal analyses prepared according to international professional standards in three languages: Italian, German and English Area: Quantitative methods for decision making be able to communicate the results of quantitative analyses carried out according to international professional standards in three languages: Italian, German and English Communication skills Very good and specialised communication skills in three languages Learning skills Obtaining information to update the constantly changing general and specific reference context Obtaining information from databases, scientific literature, laws and guidelines required in everyday working life

Additional educational objectives and learning outcomes
Acquisition of the following language skills: • Reading: Understanding authentic texts from the university environment and the world of business, as well as challenging texts from everyday life; • Writing: Writing clear, concise texts that take into account the register and style of technical German; writing in economics; • Listening: Understanding spoken texts from an academic context as well as dialogues, interviews and lectures on economic topics; • Speaking: Expressing oneself correctly, appropriately and in a differentiated manner in an academic or professional context. Knowledge and understanding: Recognise and apply the characteristics of technical language, such as clarity, comprehensibility and economy. Application of knowledge and understanding: The focus is on consolidating and expanding the language skills that students of the Faculty of Economics should have in their current everyday studies and later in their professional lives.

Assessment
The written examination tests skills in reading, writing, vocabulary and grammar. The use of a monolingual dictionary is permitted. During the course, three written assignments are completed as part of the examination (for students who attend at least 60% of the lessons). Non-attending students must write a paper (250 words) in addition to the listening, reading and lexical exercise sections of the final examination. The oral examination consists of: - Presentation of your own start-up company

Evaluation criteria
Examination • written examination (max. 30 points) • in lectures (max. 10 points) • oral examination (max. 30 points) The clarity of the answers, command and correctness of language at level C1, ability to synthesise, judgement and ability to make connections to the topics covered will be assessed.

Required readings

none

Supplementary readings

none

Further information
Online materials from newspapers and specialist journals, links to databases and dictionaries are shared with students via the OLE platform.