Professional English for Construction EngineeringLaajuus (2 cr)

Objective

The students are able to deepen and broaden their oral and written language skills supporting their field-specific competence. They are able to use terminology, language structures and style appropriate in each situation and they are motivated to maintain and advance these language skills as part of their professional identity.The students e.g.:
• are familiar with central terminology of their own field
• can prepare and deliver presentations related to their field, based on the nature of the audience and the situation
• can act in typical communication and interaction situations of their field appreciating diversity and considering multicultural characteristics
• can create documents and messages in an appropriate style.

Content

Construction engineering terminology and concepts
Business terminology
Presentations related to company operations and the students' own field of study
Customer contacts, e.g.:
- meetings and negotiations
- trade fairs
- problem situations and complaints
Official-style texts and electronic communications, e.g. reports, summaries and emails

Qualifications

English for Working Life

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

The general criteria of the competences that the Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees awarded by Finnish Universities of Applied Sciences provide can be found on JAMK’s web pages (http://www.jamk.fi/english/forstudents/studyguid e).

The learning outcomes of individual courses are assessed in relation to the objectives of the course concerned. Unless otherwise defined in the curriculum, a course accepted as completed is assessed on the following five-step scale: 5 (Excellent), 4 (Very Good), 3 (Good), 2 (Satisfactory), 1 (Sufficient), If the student does not meet the minimum criteria set for the course, the grade is 0 (Fail). In special cases, a course may be graded as Pass/Fail, marked as “S (Pass)” and “0 (Fail)”.
More exact information about the learning assesment criterias to be used shall be given during the first contact meetings of the course.