Universität Wien

040034 UK Russian - Business Communication in the Second Foreign Language I (2022S)

8.00 ECTS (4.00 SWS), SPL 4 - Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Continuous assessment of course work
MIXED

Diese Lehrveranstaltung ist strikt für Studierende der SPL 4 kontingentiert.

Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 30 participants
Language: Russian

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

Attention: from 24.3 till 1.5 - digtal learning!

Tuesday 01.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Digital
Thursday 03.03. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 16 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 3.Stock
Tuesday 08.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Digital
Thursday 10.03. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 16 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 3.Stock
Tuesday 15.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Digital
Thursday 17.03. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 16 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 3.Stock
Tuesday 22.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Digital
Thursday 24.03. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 16 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 3.Stock
Tuesday 29.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Digital
Thursday 31.03. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 16 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 3.Stock
Tuesday 05.04. 11:30 - 13:00 Digital
Thursday 07.04. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 16 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 3.Stock
Tuesday 26.04. 11:30 - 13:00 Digital
Thursday 28.04. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 16 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 3.Stock
Tuesday 03.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Digital
Thursday 05.05. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 16 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 3.Stock
Tuesday 10.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Digital
Thursday 12.05. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 16 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 3.Stock
Tuesday 17.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Digital
Thursday 19.05. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 16 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 3.Stock
Tuesday 24.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Digital
Tuesday 31.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Digital
Thursday 02.06. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 16 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 3.Stock
Thursday 09.06. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 16 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 3.Stock
Tuesday 14.06. 11:30 - 13:00 Digital
Tuesday 21.06. 11:30 - 13:00 Seminarraum 14 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Thursday 23.06. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 16 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 3.Stock
Tuesday 28.06. 11:30 - 13:00 Digital
Seminarraum 5 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
Thursday 30.06. 13:15 - 14:45 Seminarraum 16 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 3.Stock

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Aims:
- Improvement of general language skills at the level A2-B1 (acc.to CEFR) thru sufficient oral & written communication activities.
- Buildup of grammar competence focusing on verbal aspects & declination of nouns, pronouns, adjectives, numerals in a context.
- Advancement of reading & writing skills, as well as listening & comprehension.
- Facilitation of specific business vocabulary, idioms and means of expression for statistics, as well as intercultural communicative specifications in a Russain-speaking environment.
Content:
- Small talk & paving the way for business, appointments & meetings, phone talks, inquiries, time expressions.
- Invitations, advertising, promotions, presentation/offer of products & services, presentation & market analysis of a region.
- Forms of business enterprises in Russia today, activities, tendencies.
- Functions & duties of associates, job description.
- Business trips, air-tickets, hotel, means of transport, public transport, restaurants, payment.
Teaching methods:
- Communicative, inter-active, analytical. The students are supposed to cooperate with the peers, submit their group & individual work in due time.

Assessment and permitted materials

written & oral forms.
Advanced students with Russian at the level of native or second native language might be offered upgraded assignments.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

The final grade consists of 3 parts of the language activities to be tested:
1. Midterm Test for Grammar B1, listening & comprehension, reading, translation, business vocabulary - 30%, middle of May.
2. Oral tests "Business Phione Calls" & two oral presentations "Product marketing" & "Market analysis of a region" - delivery of individual performances within the arranged deadline starting from the 9.th term-week - 30%, May-June
3. Final written exam: translation D-R & speech production - 30%, end of June
100 - 91 points very good
90 - 81 points gut
80 - 71 points satisfactory
70 - 60 points sufficient
under 60 points insufficient
Attendance:
Students missing more than 4 times will be checked out of the course (in case of illness proved thru a medical note), otherwise they will be evaluated negatively.
Students who cut the first lesson without an excuse, will be checked out of the course.

Examination topics

exact information to each kind of a test will be given at least 2 weeks before an examination

Reading list

Manual for Business Communication in Russian:
E.Saprykina, D.Pribyl "Wirtschaftsrussisch–Praktische Wirtschaftsthemen in Dialogen, Texten und Übungen". 3. überarbeitete & erweiterte Auflage Oldenburg Verlag, München 2012, ISBN 978-3-486-71349-7 eISBN 978-3- 486-71714-3

SCRIPT
Herndlhofer Galina "Script mit Arbeitsunterlagen für WiKo-I Russisch", Fakultas Uni Wien, 2021

Additional teaching & learning aids, as well as the keys with the correct answers to the tests will be provided during the term and uploaded at the Moodle plattform of the Russian language course.

Association in the course directory

Last modified: Th 11.05.2023 11:26