Częstochowa, Poland

Specialized English for Business

Master's
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⇑Specialized English for Business at UJD

Language: EnglishStudies in English
Subject area: languages
Kind of studies: full-time studies, part-time studies
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University website: www.en.ujd.edu.pl

⇑Test: Is Specialized English for Business the right fit for you?

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10 questions · two minutes

1. You need to email a client to decline their request while keeping the relationship strong. How do you approach it?

2. How do you feel about analysing business discourse – how negotiators, executives or advertisers use language to persuade?

3. A company asks you to translate its annual report – financial terms, legal phrasing and an executive summary. How do you react?

4. Which task would you choose?

5. In a negotiation simulation, your partner from another culture keeps avoiding a direct ‘no’. What do you do?

6. Classes are taught entirely in English, and your group includes graduates from many countries with different native languages. How do you see that?

7. How do you feel about a Master’s thesis based on a collection of real business texts, such as comparing press releases or company reports?

8. Your manager needs a clear executive summary of a forty-page market report by the end of the day. How do you react?

9. Which future role sounds most like you?

10. What motivates you most to pursue a Master’s degree in Specialized English for Business?

⇑Definitions and quotes

Business
Business is the activity of making one's living or making money by producing or buying and selling goods or services. Simply put, it is "any activity or enterprise entered into for profit. It does not mean it is a company, a corporation, partnership, or have any such formal organization, but it can range from a street peddler to General Motors." The term is also often used colloquially (but not by lawyers or public officials) to refer to a company, but this article will not deal with that sense of the word.
Business
All businesses operate below their true potential. That is unavoidable, given the fallibility of human beings.
Robert Heller, British management journalist and author. 'The Competitors', Chapter 10, The Decision makers (1989).
Business
[A Jew] should make Torah his principal occupation and his work his casual one. He should minimize his business pursuits and occupy himself with Torah. And he should remove fleeting pleasures from his heart, and work each day enough to maintain himself. ... The rest of the day and night, he should occupy himself with Torah.
Rema, Shulchan Arukh, Yoreh De'a, 246:21, in "Separation from the Worldly (Perishut)"
Business
Everybody knows by now, all businessmen are completely full of shit; just the worst kind of low-life, criminal, cocksuckers you could ever wanna' run into – a fuckin' piece of shit businessman. And the proof of it, the proof of it is, they don't even trust each other. They don't trust one another. When a business man sits down to negotiate a deal, the first thing he does is to automatically assume that the other guy is a complete lying prick who's trying to fuck him outta his money. So he's gotta do everything he can to fuck the other guy a little bit faster and a little bit harder. And he's gotta do it with a big smile on his face. You know that big, bullshit businessman smile? And if you're a customer – Whoah! – that's when you get the really big smile. Customer always gets that really big smile, as the businessman carefully positions himself directly behind the customer, and unzips his pants, and proceeds to service...the...account. 'I am servicing this account. This customer needs service.' Now you know what they mean. Now you know what they mean when they say, 'We specialize in customer service.' Whoever coined the phrase 'let the buyer beware' was probably bleeding from the asshole. That's business.
George Carlin, You Are All Diseased (1999)

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