Interactive lectures, oral presentations, debates and discussions will allow for the deeper learning and expansion of the various topics outlined in the syllabus. Participants will also develop the various learning skills through exercises performed individually, in pairs and in groups. The teaching/facilitating process will focus on improving highly specialised skills such as telephone communication for banking transactions, the preparation of correspondence, hiring personnel, business management, publicity; searching, asking for and giving information and data on a professional topic, writing, preparing and replying to commercial correspondence, writing advertisements to offer employment, summarising meetings and reports, translating various types of commercial documents and socio-economic texts, and using audio-visual support material effectively. Individual assignments, projects and extensive readings will aim at broadening the specialised knowledge of participants in all the areas listed in the syllabus.

Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:

1. Function using a level of linguistic competence in Spanish in the area of business both orally and in writing;
2. Understand and prepare oral and written messages in almost any register within the area of business;
3. Use the Spanish language freely, fluently and efficiently in the area of business;
4. Prepare written text in the professional area coherently and without major errors, and be able to summarise it;
5. Summarise in a few words orally the contents of specialised text, without the use of notes or any other support material. This will be done fluently and coherently ;
6. Switch from and to formal and informal register and talk about any topic that does not require specialisation;
7. Read and understand a specialised text, summarise it and express an opinion about it;
8. Write a commercial or administrative text and a concise professional text;
9. Translate specialised articles of a social and economic nature.