Global English in Business

Catalog description

'Global English in Business' focusses on enhancing communicative and cultural competency skills as they apply to the use of World Englishes in business contexts. It is designed to explore one of the World Englishes’ variations used in Business as a profession and social practice. The course seeks to analyze the interdiscursive texts of professionals in the business world to understand how language builds new relationships that are unique within their own spaces. Precisely, we examine varied samples of global business literature and theories written in World Englishes to critically evaluate how English as a professional communicative language vary in different business cultures around the world. Lastly, learners in this course are tasked with interrogating the role of World Englishes and how it generally applies to multiple business cultures around the globe. Language skills addressed in this course include business communicative competency, writing and speaking fluency in World Englishes, and business vocabulary development skills. This course is open to students who are interested in studying, working or interning in a business-related environment abroad. The course has a service-learning component that fulfills both tier I and II Tulane service-learning requirement. The course is open to all undergraduate students.