Key words
French, IWETO code H460 French language and literature
Objectives
Being able to analyse texts and articles about the profession and being able to render their contents.
Being able to express oneself correctly in speech and writing in professional contexts and when looking for a job.
Being able to actively use and integrate general economic and professional vocabulary.
Being able to analyse creatively, summarise and assess critically.
Learning how to work cross-course and applying language command to the contents of specific transportation subjects. Working in a team.
Being able to summarise and do guided self-study.
Topics
Authentic materials (texts, videos, …) on expedition, distribution, transport and vocabulary on professional subjects.
Grammar structure is reviewed and supplemented wherever necessary.
Written communication: job application (cv and letter of motivation), reporting, correspondence, …
Oral communication: job interview and dialogue in professional contexts (telephoning, dialogues) descriptions (graphs), presentation of a current issue.
Extensive lexicon of transport terminology.
Prerequisites
Knowledge and skills from the first and second year.
Final Objectives
Knowledge:
General:
Job-related:- Written and spoken command of French in logistics management
Skills:
General:- Capacity for project work
- Working on one's own
- Communication skill: being able to communicate information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialists and laymen in French
General and job-related:- Ability to work in a team
- Being able to negotiate
- Making information available and spreading it (multilingual communication)
- Written reporting in French
- Expressing oneself correctly in French
- Being able to make a report on one's own in French
Job-related:- Being communicative towards internal and external customers
- Contacting professional organisations and institutions, customers in French
- Informing and advising customers on transport and logistics
- Researching, listing and collecting efficiently any sources containing ransport related information
- Collecting, registering and classifying professional data
- Expressing oneself fluently in speech and writing in French
Attitudes:
General and job-related:- Coordinating with others
- Communicative attitude
- Willingness to listen
- Assertiveness
Job-related:- Service attitude towards customers and fellow workers
- Keeping up professional reading
- Willingness to look for advice
- Critical attitude
Materials used
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Syllabus
Study costs
Photocopies at the current Hogeschool Gent rate
Expenses linked with assignments
Study guidance
Consultation with the lecturer and by e-mail
Teaching Methods
Lectures and seminars, skimming and scanning, translation, dialogue, individual work and group work
Assessment
- First exam session: 60% written exam and 40% continuous assessment
- Second exam session: 60% written exam and 40% continuous assessment
Students registered for the examinations only: - First exam session: 60% written exam and 40% oral
- Second exam session: 60% written exam and 40% oral
Lecturer(s)
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