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Career English (Country/Regional Projects)
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The course aims to train future business professionals to become active participants in the global society.
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AUTUMN
During the Autumn term students start each class by sharing information and insights from the core text in small groups about how to 'break through the invisible boundaries of global business'. During the second part of each class Students form project groups based on geographic regions to identify core differences between business culture in Japan and one other geographic country/region. Students work individually and collaboratively to discover --sometimes surprising cultural similarities-- and to innovative possibilities for creative, win-win, business partnering with the country/region of Students' choice. Output should demonstrate one or more strategy to 'break through the invisible boundaries of global business' and can be in the form of (1) a presentation with PowerPoint/Prezi slideshow or (2) a performance of a negotiation or other scene from a global business collaboration.
NOTE: This is not a lecture class. The teacher co-facilitates student-led discussion of the core-text groups during the first part of each class and draws on professional coaching skills to support Student-led project groups for the second half.
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Global business, win-win partnering, invisible cultural boundaries, geographic regions/countries STEEP challenges (Social, Technological, Economic, Environmental, Political.
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10/2 Introduction
10/9 1. Listening to the Air
10/16 2. The Many Faces of Polite
10/23 3. Why Versus How
10/30 4. How Much Respect do you Want?
11/6 5. Big D or little d?
11/13 6. The Head or the Heart?
11/20 7. The Needle, Not the Knife
(11/27) x
12/4 8. How Late is Late?
12/11 Epilogue
12/18 Country presentations/performance: Group 1&2, Q&A
12/25 Country presentations/performance: Group 3&4, Q&A
(1/1)
(1/8)
1/15 Country presentations/performance: Group 5&6, Q&A
n/a
AL(L2) 13 Norweigian stereotypes: Which apply to Japan too? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75z3GK_o3ig
AL(L11-13) Group rehearsal
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FALL
50% (5% x 10 weeks) Preparation of discussion-starter sentences based on core text (1%), Bottom lines (2%), Asking/answering questions (2%) & Peer vote for best global business communicator (5%)
50% Country presentation/performance : Content (20%), Communication (10%), Teamwork (10%) Q&A participation (10%)
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Weekly chapters (see schedule for page numbers)
TEXT: Meyer, E. (2014) Culture Map: Breaking Through The Invisible Boundaries of Global Business. NY: PublicAffairs, Perseus Books Group
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Purchase of *e-book*/*Kindle* rather than paper book will make country/region research more efficient (for group project).
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