This business course is for future engineers. You will be provided with an opportunity to consider whether setting up or joining a start-up is for you. Are you a future entrepreneur or a future manager? You will also get a chance to practice your pitch skills in English. We will look at how company culture plays an important role in driving productivity, innovation and employee satisfaction. Success – what is it and how it is perceived? Continuous assessment.
- Gestionnaire: Kehoe Bridget
Cours ouvert à 9h45 et à 11h30 seulement
Your job interview has been going very well and then you’re asked this question: “How many grains of sand are there on the Plage du Prado?” You don’t know the answer. Nobody does. Will you tell the interviewer that? Tell them it’s a stupid question? What if the question were not about getting the right answer but rather how you answer it? However, what exactly are they looking for and how will you convince them you have it?
This course is about interpreting difficult workplace situations and building strategies to deal with them so as to survive and turn them to your advantage. Job interviews provide a starting point, in which we look at decoding employers’ expectations, building effective CV and CL strategies, getting body language right and giving the answers that will get you the job. Each student will be given a full length interview in which the skills they have learned will be put to the test. In order to understand the process more thoroughly, it is you who will set the criteria for success, conduct the interviews and evaluate the performance of the candidates.
In the second part we will move on to negotiating pay & conditions and, most notably, crisis management. When things go seriously wrong you don’t want to be like a rabbit in the headlights. We will start by analysing a crisis situation to establish the rules for dealing with one before doing exactly that.
The evaluation is essentially oral and principally based on your performance in your interview. The content of this will be evaluated by students. The written part consists of a short essay in which you look back on your choice of specialisation and evaluate this choice.- Gestionnaire: Airey John
Why is Trump and the American far right trying to ban teaching US History? In this module we will study an overview of race relations in US History. Understanding civil rights struggles led by African Americans and immigrants is fundamental to understanding US culture and civilization. Texts will include articles from the NY Times, “1619 project”, writings by W.E.B.Dubois, Martin Luther King, and others - as well as podcasts focused on civil rights and race in the US. Evaluation will be through continuous assessment - oral presentations, and individual, in-class written work (essays).
- Gestionnaire: Kobliska Michael
Contemporary music has from the 50/60s to our present time played an important role in society, and has continually evolved in parallel with social, cultural, political, economic or technical change.
So what have been some of the major moments that have changed and influenced the path of music and musicians, directly or indirectly?
In the 60s & 70s music was used as a tool for protest and now that it has become a free commodity, has it still maintained a force in society to enable change.
With the use of articles, videos, debates, research and presentations we will study all this with a major focus on America and British music.
Evaluation will be through continuous assessment (written/oral/comprehension).
- Gestionnaire: Atkinson Patrick
Should making money still be the only goal of companies today?
Through a selection of contemporary articles and videos, we will look at the ways some businesses try (or pretend?) to take people and the planet into account. We’ll consider fair trade, pink washing, greenwashing among others to broaden our vision together.
Continuous assessment on written and oral activities: role plays, debates, presentations to the group, essays to express one’s opinion.
- Gestionnaire: Durbec Valérie