Бакалавриат
2025/2026
Английский язык для международных отношений и бизнеса
Статус:
Курс обязательный (Мировая экономика)
Когда читается:
3-й курс, 1-4 модуль
Охват аудитории:
для своего кампуса
Язык:
английский
Кредиты:
4
Контактные часы:
136
Course Syllabus
Abstract
English for International Affairs and Business aims at shaping the communicative and professional competence in English that underlies the language and professional development of a BA (Bachelor of Arts) majoring in Economics and International Affairs. The communicative and professional competence in English implies an ability to interact in English in the context of cross-cultural professional communication.This course offers two sub-courses: English for International Business and English for Political Studies. Language skills that lead to the competence in English being shaped are developed when studying authentic texts on a wide range of professionally relevant topics. This allows students to acquire knowledge on topical issues related to international affairs, politics and business. Due to instruction techniques, learning is practice-oriented.
Learning Objectives
- - to broaden and expand the students’ proficiency and knowledge of English; - to develop the students’ listening skills to enable them to understand and to use the information from the input; - to develop the students’ reading skills for the gist and detailed information, to make inferences and deduce the meanings from the context; - to develop the students’ speaking skills to enable them to produce a structured talk on the issue in question.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- be able to discuss the foundations of the modern international relations system
- use the vocabulary necessary to describe global governance and its evolution
- conduct a case study using professional terms and academic vocabulary
- be able to discuss the UN’s role in global governance
- use the vocabulary necessary to talk about the United Nations’ problems and goals
- use the cliché phrases appropriate for international organizations’ meetings
- write a policy paper identifying problems related to the professional field and offering solutions
- be able to discuss NGOs as actors of international affairs
- use the vocabulary necessary to describe strong and weak sides of nongovernmental organizations
- conduct PEST analysis using professional terms and academic vocabulary
- be able to discuss the role of states as protectors and abusers of human rights
- use the vocabulary necessary to describe key forms and areas of domestic human rights protection as well as major human rights violations
- be able to make/decline/accept a proposal in a negotiation process using appropriate vocabulary
- apply negotiation strategies during professional debates
- be able to analyse discuss the role of states as protectors and abusers of human rights
- be able to discuss international human rights institutions and mechanisms
- use the vocabulary necessary to describe the areas of NGOs’ human rights activities and limits to NGOs' global operation
- apply active listening skills during debates and negotiations
- be able to participate in interviews related to professional topics
- be able to discuss global economic governance
- use the vocabulary necessary to describe key economic governance institutions and their areas of operation
- read and analyze foreign language texts related to professional topics
- analyze foreign language presentations and interviews related to professional topics
- - understand and use Business terminology specific to human resource management - read, analyse and discuss authentic articles from professional journals and magazines - understand and discuss authentic interviews on Business news channels - use idiomatic expressions (sea idioms) - deliver a well-structured and focussed talk on the topic of HR management - take part in group discussion of a case in HR, offering a solution with good quality arguments - make a group presentation of the solutions
- - understand and use Business terminology specific to change management and disruptive innovation; - read, analyse and discuss authentic articles from professional journals and magazines; - understand and discuss an authentic lecture on crowdsourcing; - use phrasal verbs, nouns formed from phrasal verbs, collocations with ‘set’; - deliver a well-structured and focused talk on the topic of Disruptive Innovations; - take part in group discussion on creativity in business
- - understand and use Business terminology specific to social responsibility of business and ESG; - read, analyse and discuss authentic articles from professional journals and magazines; - understand and discuss a documentary on tax avoidance and tax evasion; - use phrasal verbs, - use a variety of negative prefixes; - deliver a well-structured and focused talk on the topic of ESG; - take part in group discussion of ethical and unethical behaviour
- - understand and use Business terminology specific to corporate governance - read, analyse and discuss authentic articles from professional journals and magazines - understand and discuss a documentary on executive compensation - use idiomatic expressions - deliver a well-structured and focussed talk on the topic of corporateb governance - take part in group discussion of various challenges related to the need to change the way a company is managed
- - understand and use Business terminology specific to resource management; - read, analyse and discuss authentic articles from professional journals and magazines; - understand and discuss an interview on alternative energies; - use idiomatic expressions; - deliver a well-structured and focused talk on the topic of resources; - take part in a debate on the future of nuclear energy
- - understand and use Business terminology specific to leadership in business; - read, analyse and discuss authentic articles from professional journals and magazines; - understand and discuss an interview on power politics; - use English proverbs; - deliver a well-structured and focused talk on the topic of leadership; - take part in a discussion of various leadership styles; - make a group presentation of a case study on leadership
- - understand and use Business terminology specific to marketing and e-marketing; - read, analyse and discuss authentic articles on marketing from professional journals and magazines; - understand and discuss an interview on digital technologies in marketing – recognize puns in English-language advertising; - deliver a well-structured and focused talk on the topic of e-marketing; - take part in a discussion of innovative approaches to e-marketing; - write a press-release
- - understand and use Business terminology specific to risk management; - read, analyse and discuss authentic articles on risk management from professional journals and magazines; - understand and discuss an interview on types of risks in business – recognize loanwords; - deliver a well-structured and focused talk on the topic of risk management; - take part in negotiations; - write a report on the results of negotiations
- - understand and use Business terminology relate to corporate crime; - read, analyse and discuss authentic articles on corporate crime from professional journals and magazines; - understand and discuss an interview on types of whitecollar crime – recognize and use euphemisms; - deliver a presentation on a high-profile case of misconduct
- learn about power and ways to measure it, about soft and hard power, their actors
- research countries' soft power initiatives
- learn the structure of issue debate and try it out
- learn about responsbility to protect
- research various actors' initiatives in the sphere of R2P
- discuss humanitarian intervention
- debate the issue
- learn about the just war theory, rules of war
- discuss changes in the way war is waged and the future of war
- discuss collateral damage from a novel angle
- learn about types of diplomacy, principles of negotiation, stages of negotiation
- discuss negotiation strategies
- create a checklist for negotiation
Course Contents
- International Relations 1. The State System and Its Weakness
- International Relations 2: The UN
- International Relations 3: NGOs
- International Relations 4: States as Protectors and Abusers of Human Rights
- International Relations 5: International Human Rights Institutions
- International Relations 6: Global Economic Governance
- Business English 1: Human Resources
- Business English 2: Disruptive Innovation
- Business English-3: ESG
- Business English - 4: Corporate Governance
- Business English 5: Competition
- Business English 6: Leadership
- Business English 7: E-marketing
- Business English 8: Risk Management
- Business English 9: Misconduct
- International Relations 7. Power
- International Relations 8. R2P
- International Relations 9. Armed Conflicts
- International Relations 10. Diplomacy. Negotiations.
Assessment Elements
- IR M1 participation
- IR M2 participation
- IR M3 participation
- IR M1-2 quizzes
- IR M3-4 quizzes
- IR home reaction paper
- IR M3 team case study
- IR M4 Human rights summit
- IR M4 policy paper
- IR M1 Debate in writing
- IR M3 Roundtable
- IR Term 1 Exam
- IR Term 2 Exam
- BE M1-2 participation
- BE M3-4 participation
- BE M1-2 quizzes
- BE M3-4 quizzes
- BE M1-2 Listening
- BE M3-4 Listening
- BE M1-2 Business communication tasks
- BE M3-4 Business communication tasks
- BE M1 Test
- BE M3 Test
- BE Term 1 Exam
- BE Term 2 Exam
Interim Assessment
- 2025/2026 2nd module0.025 * BE M1-2 Listening + 0.025 * BE M1-2 participation + 0.05 * IR M2 participation + 0.1 * BE M1 Test + 0.05 * IR M1 participation + 0.2 * BE Term 1 Exam + 0.1 * IR M1 Debate in writing + 0.2 * IR Term 1 Exam + 0.025 * BE M1-2 Business communication tasks + 0.05 * IR home reaction paper + 0.025 * BE M1-2 quizzes + 0.025 * IR M1-2 quizzes
- 2025/2026 4th module0.1 * BE M3 Test + 0.025 * IR M3 participation + 0.2 * IR Term 2 Exam + 0.025 * IR M3 team case study + 0.025 * BE M3-4 participation + 0.025 * IR M3-4 quizzes + 0.025 * BE M3-4 quizzes + 0.025 * IR M4 Human rights summit + 0.2 * BE Term 2 Exam + 0.025 * BE M3-4 Listening + 0.05 * IR M4 policy paper + 0.1 * IR M3 Roundtable + 0.025 * BE M3-4 Business communication tasks
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
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- Adressing the challenges of globalization : an independent evaluation of the World Bank's approach to global programs, , 2004
- An introduction to the international law of armed conflicts, Kolb, R., 2010
- Catalysts for change : how the UN's independent experts promote human rights, Piccone, T., 2012
- Citizen e-participation in urban governance : crowdsourcing and collaborative creativity, , 2013
- Climate change and water resources, Rosales, J., 2019
- Contests for corporate control : corporate governance and economic performance in the United States and Germany, O'Sullivan, M., 2001
- Diplomacy : a very short introduction, Siracusa, J. M., 2010
- Diplomacy. Vol.1: Theory of diplomacy, , 2004
- e-Marketing : applications of information technology and the Internet within marketing, Molenaar, C., 2012
- E-marketing, Strauss, J., 2012
- Encyclopedia of white-collar & corporate crime. Vol.1: A - I, , 2005
- Encyclopedia of white-collar & corporate crime. Vol.2: J - Z, , 2005
- Humanitarian intervention and the United Nations, MacQueen, N., 2011
- Managing human resources : personnel management in transition, , 2005
- New directions in global economic governance : managing globalisation in the twenty-first century, , 2004
- NGOs and organizational change : discourse, reporting, and learning, Ebrahim, A., 2005
- Renewable energy and climate change, Quaschning, V., 2020
- Risk management in plain english : a guide for executives, Marks, N., 2018
- Routledge handbook of ethics and war : just war theory in the twenty-first century, , 2013
- Shaping business leaders : what B-schools don't do, Bhandarker, A., 2008
- The European Union at the United Nations : intersecting multilateralisms, , 2006
- The G8, the United Nations, and conflict prevention, , 2004
- The politics of responsibility to protect : problems and prospects, Niemelä, P., 2008
- The Routledge handbook of soft power, , 2020
- The United Nations : an introduction, Gareis, S. B., 2005
- The United Nations and international law, , 2001
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- A dictionary of human rights, Robertson, D., 2005
- Baidu : как китайский поисковик с помощью искусственного интеллекта обыграл Google, Ли, Р., 2021
- Cases in corporate governance, Wearing, R., 2005
- Competition and corporate governance in Korea : reforming and restructuring the chaebol, , 2004
- Constituting Europe : the European Court of Human Rights in a national, European and global context, , 2013
- Creative destruction and the sharing economy : Uber as disruptive innovation, Schneider, H., 2017
- Diplomacy games : formal models and international negotiations, , 2007
- Diplomacy. Vol.2: History of diplomacy, , 2004
- Diplomacy. Vol.3: Problems and issues in contemporary diplomacy, , 2004
- English for human resources, Pledger, P., 2007
- Hard power, soft power and the future of transatlantic relations, , 2006
- Humanitarian intervention : ideas in action, Weiss, T. G., 2016
- Humanitarian intervention: a history, Simms, B., 2011
- International authority and the responsibility to protect, Orford, A., 2011
- International development co-operation : selected essays by H.W. Singer on aid and the United Nations system, Singer, H. W., 2001
- Just war theory, , 2013
- Making global economic governance effective : hard and soft law institutions in a crowded world, Kirton, J., 2010
- Negotiating decolonization in the United Nations : politics of space, identity, and international community, Patil, V., 2008
- NGOs as newsmakers : the changing landscape of international news, Powers, M., 2018
- Stock market efficiency, insider dealing and market abuse, Barnes, P., 2009
- Straight from the CEO : the world's top business leaders reveal ideas that every manager can use, Dauphinais, G.W., 1998
- The politics of nuclear energy in China, Xu, Yi-chong, 2010
- World history. Vol.2: Since 1500: the age of global integration, Upshur, J.-H. L., 2012