Chinese for Business Communication

2023/2024

Category 'Best Course for Career Development'

Category 'Best Course for Broadening Horizons and Diversity of Knowledge and Skills'

Category 'Best Course for New Knowledge and Skills'

Type: Mago-Lego

Delivered by: Department of Foreign Languages

When: 3, 4 module

Open to: students of one campus

Instructors: Svetlana Shalimova

Language: English

ECTS credits: 6

Contact hours: 48

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Abstract

“Chinese for Business Communication” is a two year course delivered in English for the first-year and second-year master students. The material is given sequentially according to the degree of increasing complexity. Depending on the performance of the group, the rate at which students master the material may vary. If the group learns the material faster, the teacher can give additional materials for mastering at home and in the classroom (materials from other teaching and reference books, adapted texts for home reading or texts from the Internet). If the group masters the material more slowly than envisaged in the programme, a delay in the presentation of the material is allowed in order to better study aspects that cause difficulties for students.

Learning Objectives

1. Provide students with basic Chinese knowledge and skills required for business and economic activities in China
2. Provide students with knowledge of business custom and rules, in additional to background information of Chinese culture.

Expected Learning Outcomes

Use appropriate expressions on polite social occasion of meeting, greeting, introduction, congratulation and apology.
Use appropriate expressions in negotiating, writing a plan, bargaining, discussing a way to cooperate.
Write a CV for work in China.
Implement the knowledge of Chinese etiquette in common business activities, as giving and getting gifts, organizing meetings and banquets, conducting business negotiations.

Course Contents

1. Introduction to the course. Apply for job in China
2. Preparation of business meeting
3. The first meeting and rules of etiquette
4. Preparation of a banquet
5. "Face" and gifts
6. Business correspondence
7. Preparing and conducting business negotiations
8. Types of companies
9. Organizational structure of the company
10. Introduction of the company
11. Company registration. Startup creation.
12. Marketing
13. E-commerce in China

Assessment Elements

Сlass activity and homework
Weight: 40% of the accumulative mark The homework tasks include written translation from English to Chinese, dictations and preparation to discussion.
Tests in class
Weight: 60% of the accumulative mark The tests are designed to evaluate both language competences and theoretical knowledge acquired by students for each topic in the course.
Exam: Group presentation
Weight： 60% of the 4th module mark Students must divide into groups of three and prepare and give a presentation about their company. The presentation must contain: company name, company mission. Description of the scope of activity. Date and place of foundation. Description of infrastructure, presence of branches. Capital structure. Organizational structure of the company. Examples of completed projects. Company contacts. Students must answer audience questions and exchange business cards with other companies.

Interim Assessment

2023/2024 4th module
Module 3 = HW 3*0,4 + Tests 3*0,6 • HW 3: accumulative mark for all homework in the 3rd module • Tests 3: accumulative mark for all tests in the 3rd module Module 4 = (HW4*0,4 + Tests4*0,6)*0,4 + Exam0,6 • HW4: accumulative mark for all homework in the 4th module • Tests4: accumulative mark for all tests in the 4th module • Exam: the final exam in the 4th module There are no blocking elements in the course. ИТОГОВАЯ ОЦЕНКА ЗА КУРС: Final = Module 3*0,5 + Module 4*0,5 Final: the final mark for the course Module 3: the final mark for the 3rd module Module 4: the final mark for the 4th module

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

Chinese culture, Han, J., 2018
Experiencing Chinese. Business communication in China, , 2007
New Silk Road Business Chinese (+CD), , 2009
Дашевская, Г. Я. Китайский язык. Культура и практика делового общения : учебник / Г. Я. Дашевская. — 2-е изд., испр. и доп. — Москва : ВКН, 2021. — 240 с. — ISBN 978-5-7873-1870-8. — Текст : электронный // Лань : электронно-библиотечная система. — URL: https://e.lanbook.com/book/263696 (дата обращения: 00.00.0000). — Режим доступа: для авториз. пользователей.
Китайский язык для делового общения (+CD) : Учебник, Дашевская, Г.Я., 2011
Китайский язык. Культура и практика делового общения (+ CD) : учебник, Дашевская, Г.Я., 2018

Recommended Additional Bibliography

Global expansion: the Chinese way, , 2018

Authors

SHALIMOVA SVETLANA VLADIMIROVNA
URSUL Natalia VALEREVNA

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