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Course, academic year 2025/2026
   
German for Economics upper-intermediate II - JLB018
Title: Němčina pro ekonomy - pokročilí II
Guaranteed by: Centre for Language Learning and Pedagogical Training (23-KJP)
Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
Actual: from 2025 to 2025
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 3
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unknown / unlimited (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: German
Teaching methods: full-time
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
Guarantor: Ing. Regina Faltýnová
Teacher(s): Ing. Regina Faltýnová
Class: Courses for incoming students
Pre-requisite : JLB017
Annotation -
The course is designed for students of Economics studying for a BA or MA degree, is scheduled for summer semester and builds on the previous course.

Within the course, students will draft a project of their own fictitious company (with a partner or individually). While working on the project, students will apply their knowledge of business economics, practice and expand their vocabulary primarily in the field of economic German, but also general language. During the semester, individual parts of the project will be presented, partly as a simulation of business negotiations. The project will be finalized with a comprehensive presentation of the established company. Work on the project will require active communication, both verbal and written, in which students will practice the skills of argumentation and defense of opinion, including the basics of business correspondence.
Last update: Faltýnová Regina, Ing. (21.01.2026)
Aim of the course -

Drafting a comprehensive project to establish a fictitious company. Application of the acquired theoretical knowledge in the field of business economics, practice and improvement in communication in various, even new, linguistic situations, in writing, in relation to various fields of economics. The project will also help to facilitate reading and orientation in scholarly texts, active use of well-known grammatical phenomena, and it will also offer the use of modern technologies. The output will include a company diary and company presentation.

Last update: Faltýnová Regina, Ing. (21.01.2026)
Literature -

Compulsory literature:
R.Buhlmann, A.Fearns, E.Leimbacher: Wirtschaftsdeutsch von A-Z
V.Eismann: Wirtschaftskommunikation Deutsch 1
Iva Michňová: Deutsch im Beruf 1
Iva Michňová: Business Deutsch
Josef Wergen, Annette Wörner: Obchodní korespondence a komunikace
H.-J.Hantschel, V.Klotz, P.Krieger: Mit Erfolg zu telc Deutsch B2 - Übungsbuch

The materials provided to students and used during the course are exclusively for the purpose of study for registered members of the course German for economics. They are not intended for wider distribution.

Last update: Faltýnová Regina, Ing. (21.01.2026)
Teaching methods -

Seminar

There are situations and contexts within this course where you will be encouraged to use AI tools to explore how they can be used. This will only be done on a voluntary basis. Outside of those circumstances, you are asked not to use AI tools to generate content (text, video, audio, images) that will end up in any student work (assignments, activities, responses, etc) that is part of your evaluation in this course. 

When practising your language skills, it is ok to use AI to support your language development. You can use it for brainstorming, creating outlines, even when training written production. Remember it is not ok, however, to use AI to think for us or to do the hard work of figuring out how to express our ideas in our writing. WRITING = THINKING. 

As with all sources that are used in writing, your own words and thoughts should provide the bulk of your writing. If we wanted to know how Gen AI would write for example an essay, we would ask it. In our class, we are interested in how YOU write an essay and we want to hear your unique voice.

Any student  work submitted using AI tools should clearly indicate what work is the student’s work, what part is generated by the AI, which prompts have been used and how you worked with the generated content.  In such cases, no more than 25% of the student work should be generated by AI. Academically honest use of Gen AI includes providing a full transcript of any Gen AI generated content between you and the Gen AI as part of your working document using the correct citing format.

As far as teachers’ work with AI is concerned, any use of artificial intelligence tools will be carried out in a way that protects students' personal data. Student work will not be used to train AI models.

More information about AI use can be found in the guidelines set by FSV UK and ethical recommendations provided by Charles University

Last update: Faltýnová Regina, Ing. (21.01.2026)
Requirements to the exam -

Conditions for obtaining a classified course credit:

Founding a fictitious company:

- Determination of its organization and form

- Product concept

- Characteristics of the potential customer

- Design of advertising strategy

- Business contacts.

The process of starting a business will be documented in the company diary and continuously presented. At the end of the project, students will present their company. Active work on the project will also be evaluated, which requires active attendance at the seminar. Absences should only be exceptional and for serious reasons (no more than two).

Last update: Faltýnová Regina, Ing. (21.01.2026)
Syllabus -

Topics related to drafting the project:

Company foundation and business strategy

Legal forms of companies

Organizational structure of the company

Management

Marketing

Business correspondence

Last update: Faltýnová Regina, Ing. (21.01.2026)
Entry requirements -

Mastered grammatical structures of the language, comprehension of more challenging texts of general nature and its interpretation. Successful completion of the winter course of “German for Economics - upper-intermediate I,”

Last update: Faltýnová Regina, Ing. (21.01.2026)
 
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