Professional English for Construction Engineering (2 cr)

Evaluation scale

0-5

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

Location and time

Lectures 1: 7 Sept - 30 Nov
or
Lectures 2: 9 Sept - 2 Dec

Materials

Teacher’s material will be used. Support material is provided by the teacher during the course if needed.

Teaching methods

Due to the current corona virus situation, contact classes will be held on Zoom instead of classroom. Remote learning will be the mode of delivery at least until the end of October.

Choose either Lectures 1: 7 Sept - 30 Nov (Mondays)
or
Lectures 2: 9 Sept - 2 Dec (Wednesdays)

The learning environment of the course is Optima.

You do both independent and pre-structured oral and written exercises provided by the teacher. You also work in groups. The course includes oral and written assignments which are assessed and commented by the teacher in speech or writing. 80% attendance is required in face-to-face learning.

Student workload

- face-to-face learning 12 - 14 h ON ZOOM
- studying of material, exercises, learning assignments 40 - 42 h

Total 54 hours (one credit equals 27 hours of student work)

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.

Qualifications

English for Working Life

Further information

The assessment is based on continuous assessment and feedback, and learning assignments.