English Business Communication

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English Business Communication

English Business Communication

We belong to the Department of Foreign-Language Business Communication.
Our main office is located in UZA 4 (Nordbergstr.15, A-1090), 5th floor (A-513).
For general inquiries, please contact our secretaries at 31336-4985.

Opening Hours of the Institute and the Library:
during the Summer Break and the Exam Week:
TUE / WED / THU 10-12
during the Semester:
MON 10-12 / TUE 9-12 / WED 10-12 & 16-18 / THU 9-12 / FRI 9-12

News

Diplomstudium

WIKO 1 (Diplomstudium)

As of SS2010, Wiko 1 (Diplomstudien) will no longer be offered as a course. The exam itself will be held as long as required.

WIKO 3 (Diplomstudium)

IMPORTANT INFORMATION: We will CONTINUE to offer Wiko 3 also in future semesters. Please ignore any rumors that may suggest differently.

Spezialgebiete I/II (Diplomstudium)

Registration for Spezialgebiete classes is possible via LPIS only - lecturers cannot and will not register anybody not on the list. Please remember that registration for a course is required to be able to register for the exam.

If you pass Wiko 4 no later than at the second exam in March 2010, you will get a slot (if you so require) in a seminar and a Spezialgebiete 2 course in SS2010. HOWEVER, we cannot preregister you, nor can we guarantee a slot in any particular class.

General info (keywords etc) on Spezialgebiete I / Spezialgebiete II

Spezialgebiete I/II :

Exam dates for Sept./Oct. 2010

SONDERTERMINE September 2010 / Prof. ALEXANDER
für ENGLISH BUSINESS COMMUNICATION 4 bzw. SPEZIALGEBIETE II

Seminars (Diplomstudium)

WS2010/2011 - We are offering a seminar that will be completed by the end of the summer break; if you are interested in finance & terminology and will be available to do research throughout the summer, this seminar is for you. Registration will be effected in person at the secretaries' office (UZA4, A513) and will run from Monday, May 17, to Monday, June 21 (or until we have reached full capacity). NOTE: registration for the seminar is BINDING; this means that - should you need to drop out - you will not be able to register for another seminar until SS2011.

English seminars: Details can be found here.

Bachelor program

NOTE: Registration for any and all of our classes is done exclusively via LPIS - lecturers cannot and will not accept any requests for registration outside the system; please also read the statement below. Also, for any of our courses: If you have registered for a course, but will not need the slot, after all, please deregister to make it available to other students.

If you have registered for EBC3 or EBC4 and have NOT passed EBC2 (and are not taking the exceptional EBC2 test during exam week), please deregister again to make slots available for those who fulfill the requirements.

Fremdsprachliche Wirtschaftskommunikation I/II (EBC 1/2) (Bachelor program)

Please note: In order to register for an EBC 2 course, you must have passed EBC 1 at the end of the preceding semester at the latest.

Fremdsprachliche Wirtschaftskommunikation III (EBC 3) (Bachelor program)

As long as there are slots available in any of our EBC3 courses, we cannot add more slots to existing courses, as we have already reached numbers that are barely acceptable for reasonable teaching and learning efforts. Also, once we have all results from EBC2, those students who are registered for EBC3 but have not passed EBC2 will be deregistered (see below), which will result in those slots becoming available again.

As always, all students who fulfill the criteria will get a slot in ONE of the EBC3 courses, but there cannot be a guarantee for a PARTICULAR course.

Please remember that having passed EBC 1 and EBC 2 is a prerequisite for this course, which will be checked at the beginning of the semester; registrations without the necessary requirements will have to be deleted. Also, bear in mind that you can take EBC 3 and EBC 4 in the same semester, even though we do recommend you take them in order.

Fremdsprachliche Wirtschaftskommunikation IV (EBC 4) (Bachelor program)

IMPORTANT INFORMATION: You MUST register for the EBC 4 course to be able to take the exam at the end of the semester in which you register. Please see general info on EBC 4 below. (Thus, if you do not register in WS09, the earliest you can take the exam is June 2010, following the next summer semester.)

Additional slots will be added when and if all available slots have been filled; please remember these are oral exams, which is why there has to be an upper limit to the number of students allowed into each course.

Please remember that having passed EBC 1 and EBC 2 is a prerequisite for this course, which will be checked at the beginning of the semester; registrations without the necessary requirements will have to be deleted. Also, bear in mind that you can take EBC 3 and EBC 4 in the same semester, even though we do recommend you take them in order.

General info on EBC 4

EBC 4 Exam Dates for Sept./Oct.2010

SONDERTERMINE September 2010 / Prof. ALEXANDER
für ENGLISH BUSINESS COMMUNICATION 4 bzw. SPEZIALGEBIETE II

Other news & announcements

EBC2/WIKO 3 Need help with grammar? Prof. Mautner is offering the following course: Prüfungsvorbereitung - Language Workshop: Structures, Words and Strategies (0297). Registration is an essential and can be effected in the following ways: 'Bachelor' students: Pls. register via LPIS during the period of registration (starting on 24 February 2010, 2 p.m.) 'Diplomstudien' students: As you cannot register directly via LPIS, pls. send an e-mail from your WU account (!) to 'barbara.frodl@wu.ac.at'. You will then be registered by the Institute collectively at some later stage. As places are limited, register as soon as possible. Also note that this class is a supplementary class offered for those who want to brush up their grammar knowledge; it, however, does not constitute a 'Studienplanpunkt' nor can credits be obtained. For further information about contents, lecture time and place pls. go to the electronic course description (# 0297)
NOTE: Registration for any and all of our classes is done exclusively via LPIS - lecturers cannot and will not accept any requests for registration outside the system; please also read the statement below. Also, for any of our courses: If you have registered for a course, but will not need the slot, after all, please deregister to make it available to other students.
INFO ON AVAILABILITY OF SLOTS IN OUR COURSES We make every effort to provide a sufficient number of slots to all students fulfilling the requirements for the respective courses. Please bear in mind that we need to schedule far in excess of 100 different classes to accommodate literally thousands of students each semester (this is currently complicated further by the need to offer courses for Diplom as well as Bachelor students). You must understand that planning and administering our classes is done MANUALLY - in effect, this means that, even though in the end all students will almost certainly get a slot in a required class (even if not in their top preferences), it may sometimes take some time for us to react to the development in demand and adjust our classes accordingly. Traditionally, every student has been offered a slot in a required class - but we do hope it is obvious that we simply cannot accommodate individual timetables.
Bachelorstudium, Wahlfach: Please click here for info on registration procedure for EBC1
Masterstudium Wirtschaftsrecht: Information on registration for Einstiegskurs I & II will be posted here in due course.
Need help in coping with EBC classes? Click here to find out more about our tutoring program.
The Institute presents Online Resources - a smart way to start your websearch. A compilation of useful web links in a variety of areas such as language learning, newspapers, magazines, books and travel, with a particular focus on the English-speaking world.
EBC/WIKO results: Student grades [Noten - not point score] are entered directly into the LPIS system. For information on when grades will be available, and on how you can obtain sight of your own paper (Einsicht), please see the relevant page of the Learn@WU platform.
Downloadable version of the Department Brochure (pdf)

EBC2/WIKO 3

Need help with grammar? Prof. Mautner is offering the following course: Prüfungsvorbereitung - Language Workshop: Structures, Words and Strategies (0297).

Registration is an essential and can be effected in the following ways:

'Bachelor' students: Pls. register via LPIS during the period of registration (starting on 24 February 2010, 2 p.m.)
'Diplomstudien' students: As you cannot register directly via LPIS, pls. send an e-mail from your WU account (!) to 'barbara.frodl@wu.ac.at'. You will then be registered by the Institute collectively at some later stage.

As places are limited, register as soon as possible. Also note that this class is a supplementary class offered for those who want to brush up their grammar knowledge; it, however, does not constitute a 'Studienplanpunkt' nor can credits be obtained. For further information about contents, lecture time and place pls. go to the electronic course description (# 0297)

INFO ON AVAILABILITY OF SLOTS IN OUR COURSES
We make every effort to provide a sufficient number of slots to all students fulfilling the requirements for the respective courses. Please bear in mind that we need to schedule far in excess of 100 different classes to accommodate literally thousands of students each semester (this is currently complicated further by the need to offer courses for Diplom as well as Bachelor students). You must understand that planning and administering our classes is done MANUALLY - in effect, this means that, even though in the end all students will almost certainly get a slot in a required class (even if not in their top preferences), it may sometimes take some time for us to react to the development in demand and adjust our classes accordingly. Traditionally, every student has been offered a slot in a required class - but we do hope it is obvious that we simply cannot accommodate individual timetables.

Bachelorstudium, Wahlfach: Please click here for info on registration procedure for EBC1

Masterstudium Wirtschaftsrecht: Information on registration for Einstiegskurs I & II will be posted here in due course.

Need help in coping with EBC classes? Click here to find out more about our tutoring program.

The Institute presents Online Resources - a smart way to start your websearch.
A compilation of useful web links in a variety of areas such as language learning, newspapers, magazines, books and travel, with a particular focus on the English-speaking world.

EBC/WIKO results: Student grades [Noten - not point score] are entered directly into the LPIS system. For information on when grades will be available, and on how you can obtain sight of your own paper (Einsicht), please see the relevant page of the Learn@WU platform.

Downloadable version of the Department Brochure (pdf)

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