Course 2019-2020 a.y.

The most important topics we consider during this course are the following:

• The objectives of professional communication.
• The soft skills used to reach those objectives.
• The language choices that facilitate or impede professional communication.
• Adapting your English to professional situations.

• Recognize the elements of effective professional communication.
• Identify the relationship between the purpose of the communication and the soft skills used
• Communicate using the skills learned

• Develop clearer, more effective written messages.
• Develop clearer, more effective spoken messages.
• Use their soft skills in English to make it easier to achieve their objectives.

• Face-to-face lectures
• Exercises (exercises, database, software etc.)
• Interactive class activities (role playing, business game, simulation, online forum, instant polls)

During the seminar, students experience short face-to-face lectures exploring various aspects of communicating in the workplace, as well as discussions of the language and soft skills used in professional situations. They spend much of their time on activities, role-plays, and simulations designed to help them identify effective language choices and improve their ability to use their English to communicate in the workplace.

With the purpose of measuring the acquisition of the above-mentioned learning outcomes, the student assessment is based on two main components:

• In class participation (75% attendance and active participation required for Attending Student status).
• Final written exam (individual grade, 100% of the final grade), based on the tasks and situations explored during the seminar.

Non-attending students additionally need to demonstrate their ability to use the communications skills used by Attending Students during their participation in the seminar.

The main course material, for both attending and non-attending students, is:

• Materials provided during the course. Students need to refer to the Bboard platform.

The duration of the seminar course (pass/fail for the final test) is half a semester (24 hours) and it is scheduled in the 2nd year.

Four time-slots per year are offered (two in 1st and two in 2nd semester).

The student chooses (when enrolling in his/her 2nd year) their preferred time-slot by taking into account his/her other academic activities. Double/Joint degree students who are required to spend the whole 2nd year abroad are allowed to attend the seminar course in their 1st year.

The topics covered are as follows: development of soft skills (both written and oral) in the professional environment (e.g. participating and negotiating in a variety of professional situations, creating effective business reports, cover letters etc.).
Details in the course syllabus.

Il seminario (con test pass/fail) si svolge in metà semestre (24 ore) al secondo anno.

Sono previste 4 edizioni (due al 1° e due al 2° semestre).

Lo studente sceglie (nel periodo di iscrizione al 2° anno) il semi-semestre in funzione dei propri impegni accademici.

Possono anticipare la didattica al primo anno gli studenti dei programmi di double/joint degree che prevedono la permanenza all’estero durante tutto il secondo anno.

Il programma prevede lo sviluppo di soft skills (linguaggio orale e scritto) applicate al contesto professionale (per esempio: partecipazione e negoziazione in diverse situazioni professionali, creazione di business report efficaci, cover letter, ecc.).
Per dettagli consultare il programma d’aula.

Students will acquire an advanced level of knowledge of the language to be used in the business environment (proficient users).

Lo studente avrà acquisito una conoscenza di livello avanzato del linguaggio da utilizzare nell’ambiente di lavoro che consente padronanza di espressione e comprensione.

Students will be able to interact in written and oral form spontaneously, fluently and effectively in a multicultural and multilingual working environment (write complex analysis and summary documents, read and understand in detail technical and specialized documents, make oral presentations characterized by a high level of fluency and correct pronunciation; thoroughly understand the point of view of other persons and interact naturally in meetings.

Lo studente saprà interagire in forma scritta ed orale in modo sicuro, appropriato ed attivo in contesti lavorativi caratterizzati dalla presenza di persone con lingue e culture diverse (produrre documenti di analisi e sintesi complessi, leggere e comprendere nel dettaglio documentazione tecnico – specialistica, presentare relazioni con padronanza e sicurezza di linguaggio e pronuncia, comprendere ed interpretare il pensiero degli interlocutori e partecipare con disinvoltura ai meeting di lavoro).

• Face-to-face lectures
• Exercises (exercises, database, software etc.)
• Interactive class activities (role playing, business game, simulation, online forum, instant polls)

During the seminar, students experience short face-to-face lectures exploring various aspects of communicating in the workplace, as well as discussions of the language and soft skills used in professional situations. They spend much of their time on activities, role-plays, and simulations designed to help them identify effective language choices and improve their ability to use their English to communicate in the workplace.

La valutazione dell’apprendimento (effettuata attraverso test Bocconi) è finalizzata a valutare le writing soft skills da utilizzare in un contesto lavorativo.

È previsto unicamente un test scritto con valutazione pass/fail.

È necessario iscriversi via punto Blu.

I frequentanti possono sostenere il test subito dopo il termine del semi-semestre di didattica frequentato (test modalità frequentanti) e/o nei quattro appelli disponibili: dic/gen, feb, giu, sett (test con modalità “unica” per frequentanti e non).

I non frequentanti possono sostenere il test nei quattro appelli disponibili: dic/gen, feb, giu, sett - (test con modalità “unica” per frequentanti e non).

Per maggiori informazioni consultare il programma d’aula.

The assessment method (in case of Bocconi internal assessment) consists of a written test focused on writing competencies to be used in a working environment.

Students are given a pass or fail grade.

Registration via “Punto Blu” is required to sit the test.

Attending students are allowed to sit the test immediately following the attended seminar course (end of first/second part of the 1st/2nd semester – “attending students” test) and/or in four “general” sessions which are held throughout the year (Dec/Jan, Feb, Jun, Sept - in this case the test is the same for both attending and non-attending students).

Non-attending students are allowed to sit the test in four “general” sessions which are held throughout the year (Dec/Jan, Feb, Jun, Sept - the test is the same for both attending and non-attending students).

Further details in the course syllabus.

Teaching materials are the same for both attending and non-attending students; namely:

Student Pack available through Blackboard and teacher’s own personal materials.

Sono previsti gli stessi materiali didattici per studenti frequentanti e non; in particolare:

Materiali disponibili sulla piattaforma Blackboard e materiali a cura del docente.