The course helps students to improve their ability to speak both extemporaneously and with advance preparation on a range of topics as well as to improve listening skills through conversation, interviews, media broadcasts, lectures, audiotapes, and films. These two morning sessions will help students to increase their academic and professional vocabularies as well as their everyday vocabulary. This course provides an introduction to management theory and practice. Instructors make use of the case method to explore business concepts and terminology. Readings, case analyses, class discussions, and student presentations stimulate students to use American English in the business context.
Participants explore the historical roots and basic institutions of the American legal system.
The seminar also offers an introduction to concepts and methods of American legal analysis. It gives students practice in written and oral communication within the context of such contemporary American legal issues as free speech, the separation of Church and State, capital punishment, and the right to privacy. Students visit state and federal courts and the United Nations to meet with lawyers and UN officials. Students will learn about current medical issues in the United States, from managed care and public health issues to questions of medical ethics, and will study how medical technology has changed the practice of medicine. Students will also explore the effects of culture on medical practice and practitioners.