OPF:SVBPPDS Personal Develop. Skills for M - Course Information
SVBPPDS Personal Development Skills for Mobilities
School of Business Administration in KarvinaSummer 2015
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/1/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- PhDr. Krystyna Heinz (lecturer)
PhDr. Krystyna Heinz (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Emil Horký, PhD. (seminar tutor) - Guaranteed by
- PhDr. Krystyna Heinz
Departament of Economics and Public Administration – School of Business Administration in Karvina - Prerequisites
- No conditions must be fulfilled and the subject can be registered indepedently.
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is offered to students of any study field.
- Course objectives
- The goal of the subject is to develop students´ linguistic, communicative, socio-cultural and intercultural skills as a preparation for student´s and professional mobilities during which students can face misunderstandings, conflicts, problems with adaptation to target cultures and various stereotypes and prejudice. The students will be able to use their skills on their future job positions in public sector institutions and in social work. The main output of the course in creating of a portfolio comprising documents and questionnaires related to the recruitment procedure, including self-reflection evaluation as the basis for the design of an own case study and its presentation.
- Syllabus
- I Socio-Cultural Knowledge
1 Language and social interaction
2 Culture values and theory of cultures
3 Adaptation to target culture
4 Stereotypes, prejudice and discrimination
II Placement and career plan
5 Recruitment process
6 Intercultural team management
7 International negotiating
8 Public speaking
III Marketing yourself - creating a portfolio of documents
9 CV, a letter of application and a covering letter
10 A videotaped presentation in front of the class with the following analysis
11 Working with self-evaluating documents and questionnaires
12 Creating an own case study and presenting it to the class
13 Revision
ad 1) Lingua Franca, Politeness theory, Pragmatics
ad 2) Division of cultures, Hofstede´s research, Trompenaar´s dimensions
ad 3) Acculturation, acculturation models, Culture shock, Overcoming culture shock
ad 4) Reasons for creating stereotypes, Prejudice in Europe, Discrimination in history and nowadays
ad 5) Preparation for a job interview, Coping with confusing questions, Documents connected with recruitment
ad 6) Specifics of working in a multicultural team, International business styles, Barriers to doing business internationally
ad 7) Steps in the process of negotiating, Culture specifics, Gift giving
ad 8) Preparing a presentation, Content and structure, Delivery of a presentation
ad 9) Characteristics of the written style, Basic rules of formal writing, Appropriate language structures
ad 10) Video-recording of presentations, Their analysis, Recommendation of improvements
ad 11) Filling in questionnaires, Their evaluating, Comparing with other students
ad 12) Creating of a case study, Elaborating the text, Presenting it to other students
ad 13) Revising the most important items, Evaluating the course - a questionnaire, Evaluating the performance of students and teachers
- I Socio-Cultural Knowledge
- Literature
- required literature
- HEINZOVÁ, K. Personal Development Skills. Karviná: OPF, SU, 2011. info
- Teaching methods
- Skills demonstration
Seminar classes - Assessment methods (in Czech)
- Kombinovaná zkouška
- Language of instruction
- English
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
- Teacher's information
- Presentation of a case study, creating a portfolio and a credit test, 70% participation in seminars.
Activity Difficulty [h] Ostatní studijní zátěž 79 Přednáška 13 Seminář 13 Zkouška 40 Summary 145
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