English I

Description of the course

Degree: Tourism
Department: Philology I
Course Title: English I Code: 2003003
Type of course: Compulsory Area of knowledge:
Year of Study : 1st Level of course: 1st cycle Mode of delivery: on-campus
Semester: 1st ECTS Credits: 6 Number of Groups: 
Pre-requisites and co-requisites: None
Name of lecturer/s: María Luisa Blanco Gómez, Ángela Olivares Gullón, María Antonia Urquía Muñoz

Course Contents:

Content Unit Topic
I. What is Tourism? 1. What is Tourism? What is your kind of tourism?
II. Travel enquiries. Careers in tourism and hospitality 2. Travel enquiries. Careers in tourism and hospitality
III. Accomodation and Hospitality Research 3. Accomodation
4. Hospitality Research
IV. Customer Relations and Tourism Marketing 5. Customer Relations
6. Tourism Marketing
V. Traveling and the Business of Events Tourism 7. At The Airport
8. The Business of Events Tourism
VI. Paradise Found and Means of Transport 9. Paradise Found
10. Means of Transport

Recommended or Required readings:    

Título English for Tourism & Hospitality (2008)
Author H. Mol
Publisher Garnet
   
Título Tourism 2 (2007
Author R.Walker & K. Harding
Publisher Oxford University Press.
   
Título Checkpoint. English in Tourism (1992, 2nd ed.2000)
Author Gallego, J., Mioduszewska, M., Olivares, A., Urquía, M. A.
Publisher Ceura.

 

Planned learning activities and teaching methods: Group and individual works to be presented in written and exposed in the class during the semester.
Assessment methods and criteria: The acquisition of skills related to this course and its learning outcomes will be assessed through continuous evaluation. The different activities to be jointly evaluated include theoretical and practical exams, participation in class, individual and group works, workshops as well as participation in complementary activities. All activities will be evaluated within the grade scale from 1 to 10. For successful completion of the course, the student shall obtain a final mark equal to or higher than 5. Each activity will form a part of the final grade in equivalent percentage value, which will not exceed 40%. The student is entitled to two evaluations. The second evaluation process will be carried out only for those activities, which shall be revaluated. The students, who fail to obtain the required skills through activities that cannot be revaluated, will have to register again for the course in the following academic year for the purpose to acquire those competences.
Language of instruction: English Work Placement: Fuenlabrada