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Students who have taken this course are able to co-operate and work in multicultural virtual teams. They are able to communicate efficiently and fluently in work-related interactive situations with emphasis on meetings and negotiations. The students can write texts and written messages demonstrating the control of communicative professional situations.
The students can also efficiently understand and summarize texts. They are able to use academic style and use references properly in their written production. The students are ready to develop their professional identities through self-reflective tasks during the course.
This course corresponds to the CEFR language levels C1-C2. (CEFR = Common European Framework for Languages).
This six credit course focuses on professional communications, virtual team and project work, multicultural co-operation, academic and professional writing, and professional self-development.
The course includes two mandatory online sessions at the beginning of the course and three online group simulations later during the course. The two online sessions will be held in the evenings with the teacher and the whole group present.
After the online sessions, the students will be divided into groups. Each group will do three online group simulations organized according to the students’ own schedule. Furthermore, the students complete twelve written individual assignments related to the different course topics supporting the online group simulations.
The assignments are tailored based on the findings of language needs studies and are based on real working life communication situations. For example, the case company of the negotiation simulations is a local, existing company.
The course is meant for students who have completed their compulsory English courses in their degree programmes. The students on this course should have control of their basic field-specific vocabulary in English and seek to develop their confidence further in communicative situations.
Please notice Like a Pro is an updated version of the previous course Moving On! Professional English Communication, so if you have completed that Averko course, do not register to Like a Pro!
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Satisfactory (1-2)
After completing the course, the students are able to take part and work in multicultural virtual teams. They are able to communicate to some extent in work-related interactive situations with emphasis on meetings and negotiations. The students can write texts and written messages even though there are still lacks in communicative professional conventions and language. The students can also summarize texts. They are able to use some academic style and include references in their written production. The students try to develop their professional identities through self-reflective tasks during the course.
Good (3-4) After completing the course, the students are able to co-operate and work with some success in multicultural virtual teams. They are able to communicate understandably in work-related interactive situations with emphasis on meetings and negotiations. The students can write functional texts and written messages demonstrating some control of communicative professional situations. The students can also understand and summarize texts. They are able to use academic style and use references to some extent in their written production. The students aim at developing their professional identities through self-reflective tasks during the course.Excellent (5)
After completing the course, the students are able to co-operate and work successfully in multicultural virtual teams. They are able to communicate efficiently and fluently in work-related interactive situations with emphasis on meetings and negotiations. The students can write effective texts and written messages demonstrating full control of communicative professional situations. The students can also efficiently understand and summarize texts. They are able to use academic style and use references properly in their written production. The students are willing to develop their professional identities through self-reflective tasks during the course.Course implementation is 100% online.
Learning material and additional links are placed in Itslearning learning environment.
6 credits course requires approximately 162 hours of work.
Digital learning environment in Centria and for this course is itslearning. The student needs a computer and working internet access.
Note! The cancellation time has changed. Cancelling studies is possible while the enrollment time is active. Cancellation is done by submitting a written notification to avoinamk@centria.fi
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Schools that are already using Cross-Institutional Study Service are HAMK, HUMAK, TurkuAMK, XAMK