Number of hours
- Lectures -
- Projects -
- Tutorials 48.0
- Internship -
- Laboratory works -
- Written tests -
ECTS
ECTS 2.5
Goal(s)
This course is designed to help students do the following:
- communicate with ease in a number of professional situations, adapting their language, register and style to the context.
- improve their written communication skills. Students should demonstrate an ability to organise and structure their ideas in order to communicate efficiently in various professional tasks.
- improve their skills as critical readers and thinkers.
- develop intercultural awareness and acquire better understanding of the international professional context.
Responsible(s)
Sophie BELANGER
Content(s)
In this course students are given opportunities to USE English in a variety of useful situations to help them carry on improving their fluency in English, their communication skills and their intercultural competence in order to achieve their academic and professional goals. Students are asked to do several practical tasks, including researching, reviewing, attending meetings, developing arguments and points of view, presenting, writing a CV, being interviewed, debating, writing an abstract, all of which should help prepare them for professional life.
The various tasks proposed will explore the following professional contexts and topics:
- Attending a Think Tank to provide advice and ideas on specific political or economic problems
- Giving a motivational speech
- Looking for a job - replying to a job offer, being interviewed, communicating about one's professional projects
- Debating (formal debates)
- Communicating about one's science project: - poster session presentation & abstract writing
- Developing professional intercultural awareness and understanding
-level B1 in English
Test
Continuous assessment only, no resit for this course.
After a period of preparation, your teacher will ask you to write, present or perform a task which will be marked and form part of the continuous assessment grade. A variety of linguistic, communication and professional skills will be assessed following specific evaluation grid for each assignment. The program is divided into different projects or tasks with the following graded assignments:
Think Tank 15%; job file 20% ; giving a speech 15% ; poster presentation 20%; Abstract 15%; Debating 15%
The ‘English for your career’ continuous assessment grade counts towards the validation of the ‘Module Professionnel’. Please note that a 0/20 will make you fail the entire 'Module Professionnel'.
The exam is given in english only 
Calendar
The course exists in the following branches:
- Curriculum - Master of Engineering GEE - Semester 7-8 (this course is given in english only
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Additional Information
Course ID : 4EMAENG9
Course language(s):
You can find this course among all other courses.
Bibliography
All Ense3 2A ALT 'English for your career' course material is available on the CHAMILO platform. Guidelines and various course material are in the 'documents' section of the course, you also have direct access to useful links (listed below) in the 'links' section.
On-line training sites:
Boost'English
VALET
STEP
Dictionaries:
Cambridge dictionary
Word reference
Grand dictionnaire
Fonetiks
Thesaurus
On-line web radios or TVs and others:
BBC
CNN
CBC
TED Talks