Interactive lectures, oral presentations, projects and discussions will allow for the learning 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 developing specialised skills such as initiating basic communication in the world of business and in various language specific contexts, talking about the company as a workplace, the production of oral discourse in basic situations within the administrative and commercial activity of the company, initiating and maintaining telephone communication, client communication, interviews, note taking; developing basic techniques for the preparation of the main administrative and commercial documents, reading comprehension exercises, writing various types of correspondence and using audio-visual support, the press and authentic material to show aspects in the professional, economic and commercial areas in Spain and in Latin America. 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 at the basic level;
2. Read and understand press articles about professional, economic and commercial topics;
3. Write business correspondence at a basic level;
4. Express themselves orally in Spanish about economic and commercial topics at a basic level;
5. Participate in professional communicative situations at basic level;
6. Interact both orally and in writing in the area of business, economics and administration at a basic level;
7. Ask for clarifications orally in case any difficulty arises in comprehension.