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The final year (SS) builds on the knowledge you have acquired in the first part of the business language programme and on the experiences of the year abroad and work placement. It provides you with theoretical insights and practical skills in the areas of intercultural communication and management, including negotiation and working in cross-cultural teams. The programme also hones your skills in written and oral persuasion and includes components in business translation and minute taking. You will write your final year dissertation in German on a business topic, which you select yourself. In researching and writing your dissertation you have the opportunity to bring together all the skills which you have learned over the four years.
Course Structure LANGUAGE FLUENCY:
GR4011 SS BSG Language (3h per week MT, 1h per week HT, TT)
GR4000 BSG Translation (1h per week all year)
GR4004 SS Grammar (1h per week)
GR3041 Spoken German (see below)
OPTION
GR4012 Intercultural Communication (2h per week all year)
GR4013 Dissertation Seminar
GR4012 INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION: (3 hours per week HT, TT): This component embraces both the theoretical and practical dimensions of management and communication in intracultural and intercultural business settings, including issues such as intercultural negotiation and working in multi-cultural teams. Emphasis is placed on developing a critical understanding of face-to-face and non face-to-face interaction between individuals within organisations and societies, using taxonomies such as those established by Hofstede, Adler and Laurent. This, in turn, provides the basis for exploring the extent to which organisational behaviour and communication are culturally determined.
Recommended Texts :
Intercultural Communication:
-Adler, N.J., 1997: International Dimensions of Organizational Behavior. Cincinnati: South-Western College Publishing.
-Bergemann, N., & Sourrisseaux, A.L.J., 1996: Interkulturelles Management. Heidelberg: Physica.
-Hickson, D.J., & Pugh, D.S., 1995: Management Worldwide. London: Penguin.
-Hofstede, G., 1984: Culture's Consequences. International Differences in Work-related Values. Beverly Hills: Sage.
1997: Lokales Denken, globales Handeln: Kulturen, Zusammenarbeit und Management. München: C.H.Beck.
-Kieser, A., Reber, G., & Wunderer, R. (eds.), 1995: Handwörterbuch der Führung. Stuttgart: Schäffer-Poeschl.
-Perlitz, M., 1994: Internationales Management. Stuttgart: Lucius & Lucius.
-Reeves, N., 1996: Business Environment Germany. London: Thomson.
-Schein, E., 1995: Unternehmenskultur. Frankfurt: Campus.
-Usunier, J. C., & Walliser, B., 1993: Interkulturelles Marketing. Mehr Erfolg im internationalen Geschäft. Wiesbaden: Gabler.
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GR4011 SS BSG LANGUAGE: This course has two components.
Protokoll (2 hours per week MT only): This component is primarily video-based and aims to develop the listening and productive skills involved in minute-taking. The material used for analysis is representative of a range of discourse types, including non-business discourse, and promotes the ability to analyse and synthesise.
Rhetorik/Kommentar (1 hour per week MT, HT, TT): This course develops written and oral skills of persuasion and rhetoric in the L2, preparing students for presentations, discussions and the writing of Kommentare. The materials used will include a variety of text-types and videos and will focus on business and socio-cultural topics. back to top
GR4000 BSG TRANSLATION: (1 hour per week HT, TT): The course concentrates on advanced translation from German to English and incorporates relevant aspects of the methodology of translation. The texts comprise a mixture of quality journalism, editorials, essays on current affairs, political, economic and social topics.
GR4004 SENIOR SOPHISTER GRAMMAR TUTORIAL: (1 hour per week MT, HT, TT): Revision of a range of grammatical structures. back to top
GR4013BSG DISSERTATION (1 hour per week MT, HT): The course provides students with the skills necessary for the preparation of the dissertation. It includes a focus on understanding research methodology, structuring longer pieces of written discourse and presentation of primary and secondary material, including footnotes and bibliographical material. back to top
GR3401 SENIOR SOPHISTER SPOKEN GERMAN: All advanced (JS, SS) students attend the German evening which takes place fortnightly on Wednesday nights, beginning in Week 2 of Michaelmas Term. A series of German films will be shown, beginning at 6 p.m. in Room 5086. Afterwards (from 8 p.m.) staff and students gather in one of the local pubs, where they can speak German in a relaxed atmosphere. There will also be weekly conversation class.
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