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 specialised information seeking, research, the preparation and processing of administrative and commercial documents, the preparation of business reports and summaries, the translation of specialised social and economic articles, and the use of audio-visual support, manuals, specialised publications and authentic material, critical reading, academic writing and many others. 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 highly specialised level of linguistic competence in the language and world of business;
2. Debate and talk about current socio-economic and commercial issues;
3. Present orally and in writing a highly specialised economic and commercial topic, fluently and coherently and without using notes or other aids;
4. Read and understand authentic material and specialised documents about companies and texts on economics and commerce, such as specialised press, manuals, statistics, charts, etc.;
5. Produce complex writing, such as reports, summaries, syntheses, etc.;
6. Switch from formal to informal register and present, both oral and in writing, defending their viewpoint and presenting their arguments on any specialised topic;
7. Write a text of between 300 and 350 words developing a specialised topic;
8. Write a technical paper, such as an official, commercial or mercantile document of at least 200 words;
9. Translate specialised articles of a social and economic nature.