ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Academic Year 2017/2018 - 1° Year
Teaching Staff: Douglas Ponton
Credit Value: 6
Scientific field: L-LIN/12 - Language and translation - English
Taught classes: 36 hours
Term / Semester: 2°
Credit Value: 6
Scientific field: L-LIN/12 - Language and translation - English
Taught classes: 36 hours
Term / Semester: 2°
Detailed Course Content
This course opens a window on the global economic and financial situation, through the guided reading, translation and discussion in English of texts that deal with a variety of economic, commercial and political issues, mainly taken from the magazine 'The Economist'. The texts deal with the causes of the crisis, the European experience, testimonies from experts such as Sir James Goldsmith: a second part present ancient and new solutions to world economic problems, studying the case of the India of Ghandi and the high technology companies of Elon Musk.
Textbook Information
collection of texts available on Studium