Professional English

Why?

Whether you’re a manager, a researcher, a lawyer or a student, you need to communicate effectively with your colleagues, your clients, your fellow students or your prospective employer. Our Professional English courses are are tailored to meet your specific needs, focusing primarily on English terminology and useful language for your working environment.

Advocacy and Communication Skills

Target

The Course, organised by UniTo Law Department in collaboration with IUSE, is intended for Law Department students. It is part of a wider project aimed to develop and foster the English knowledge, as a key competence for future academic and international activities.

Duration

40 hrs – 13 lessons

Objectives

Advocacy is a political process by which an individual or group aims to influence decisions within political, economic, and social systems and institutions. Advocacy can include many activities (media campaigns, public speaking and publishing research or lobbying).

Effective communication skills are fundamental in being persuasive and determining changes.

The course will provide the participants with an overview of the most common strategies and tools required for effective communication. Each lesson will include role plays, pair work and teamwork, case studies, simulations, writing reports and summaries.

Students will work on the fundamentals of the target language, reviewing, improving their knowledge of the English language, particularly, Legal English.

List of topics

Body language and active listening
Reading and Writing skills
Meetings
Negotiations
Presentations and Pleading

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