Course detail
English for Risk Engineering
ÚSI-RSAIRAcad. year: 2022/2023
The course focuses on the acquisition and deepening of practical language skills. As part of their studies, students will learn to use professional knowledge, skills and competences in the field of risk management in English.
Language of instruction
Number of ECTS credits
Mode of study
Guarantor
Department
Learning outcomes of the course unit
The ability to communicate in selected situations connected with company management, to present a company and its products, to discuss company matters in the oral and written form. The ability to negotiate at various levels.
Corresponding expansion of specific vocabulary.
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
Another condition for the successful completion of the subject is active participation in seminars, the fulfilment of tasks set by the tutor, and good attendance.
Course curriculum
2. Risk engineering methods, tools and techniques - vocabulary, specialised texts, conversation
3. Legal terms - basic vocabulary and common phrases
4. Basic terms from the field of economics and finance - vocabulary, conversation
5. Basic terms from the field of risk management - vocabulary, specialised texts, conversation
6. Annotation of a selected article from a foreign periodical, revision of articles, the passive voice and word order
7. Recordings of foreign lectures connected with technical fields - listening
8. Cover letter and application for employment in a technical field
9. Interpretation of a selected specialised article by the student, discussion on the topic
10. Interpretation of a selected specialised article by the student, discussion on the topic
11. Preparation of a presentation on the topic of the student’s Master’s thesis
12. The student´s own short presentation on the topic, with the Master’s thesis
13. The student´s own short presentation on the topic, with the Master’s thesis
Work placements
Aims
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
Recommended optional programme components
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
Downes, Colm: Cambridge English for Job-hunting, Cambridge University Press, 2008 (CS)
Grussendorf, Marion: English for Presentations, Fraus, 2008 (CS)
Ibbotson, Mark: Professional English in Use, Engineering, Cambridge University Press, 2009 (CS)
Ostrom, Lee T a Cheryl A. Wilmhelmsen: Risk assessment: tools, techniques, and their applications. Hoboken: John Wiley, 2012 (CS)
Štepánek, Libor, de Haaff, Janice a kol.: Academic English, Grada Publishing, a.s., 2011 (CS)
Recommended reading
Classification of course in study plans