Business + Culture

The Berlin School of Economics and Law (Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Recht Berlin; BSEL)

Required Intensive Language Courses

Intensive Beginning German
This course is designed for students who have never studied German or have had one semester of German prior to enrolling in the study abroad program. The class opens with sessions on survival language skills and is designed from a communicative perspective to help true beginners of the German language develop fundamental linguistic language skills in listening comprehension, oral communication, reading, and writing. The course encompasses all of the key areas of grammar and vocabulary typically encountered in a first semester German course.

Intensive Intermediate German
This class is designed for students with intermediate language skills. The syllabus is organized functionally around objectives that students need to adjust to living and studying in the German culture and Berlin. Through a communicative methodology, students work to improve their language skills in reading, writing, listening, and speaking German. Students focus on real-life application of language. By the end of the course, students cover the basic range of grammatical tools necessary to communicate effectively. These include the present, past, and future tenses, direct and indirect object pronouns, prepositions and adverbs, and selected aspects of the subjective and conditional moods.

Intensive Advanced German
This class is designed to challenge students with increasing language ability to improve on the skills they have already acquired. The syllabus is organized functionally around objectives that students need to adjust to living and studying in the German culture. The course covers all four communicative skills (listening comprehension, oral communication, reading, and writing) with special emphasis on complex aspects of the language that are particularly challenging for English speakers. The course covers abstract functions of language such as expressing opinions, resolving conflicts, formulating complaints, making arguments, and negotiating. Grammatically, emphasis is placed on the correct use of the tools needed to achieve these aims - complex aspects of the various past tenses, the full range of subjunctive and conditional moods, and formal and informal registers.

Required Semester-Long German Language Courses
All Berlin School of Economics and Law semester-long German language courses will introduce vocabulary related to banking, business communications, meetings, résumé terms, taxes, marketing, finance, etc. All students must enroll in one of the following:

• Business German Beginner 1
• Business German Beginner 2
• Business German Beginner 3
• Business German Beginner 4
• Business German Intermediate 1
• Business German Intermediate 2
• Business German Intermediate 3
• Business German Intermediate 4
• Business German Advanced

Elective Courses Taught In English at The Berlin School Of Economics And Law*
*Not all courses are offered every semester, and some courses have prerequisites. The final list of courses is made available during the enrollment period on site.

• Basics of External Accounting
• Basics of Internal Accounting/Controlling
• Business Application
• Business Mathematics
• Business Mathematics and Economics
• Business Organization, Company, Work Seen from the Perspective of History and the Social Sciences
• Business Simulation
• Communication and Interaction on the Job
• Communication Strategies and Consumer Behavior
• Corporate Finance
• Cost Accounting
• European Economic Policy
• Finance and Investment Policies in Business
• Financial Analysis and Valuation
• Fundamentals of Business Law
• Fundamentals of Corporate Finance
• Group Accounting and Managerial Accounting
• History, Politics, and Economics of the Host Country
• Human Resource Management
• Human Resources and Organization
• Instruments of Controlling
• Intercultural Communications
• International Business Accounting
• International Law & Human Conflicts in Regions of Africa
• International Management
• Internationalization of Economic Processes - Goals, Instruments, & Actors of Regulation
• Introduction to Business Information Systems
• Introduction to Financial Accounting
• Investment and Finance
• Labor Market and Social Welfare State in Europe
• Macroeconomics I: The Economic Cycle and Employment
• Macroeconomics II: World Market and Currency
• Macroeconomics: The Economic Cycle and Employment
• Management Accounting and Controlling
• Management Issues: Business Ethics
• Management Issues: International Project Management
• Management Issues: Management Consulting
• Management Issues: Multinational Enterprises in Emerging Markets
• Management Issues: Total Quality Management
• Market Research
• Marketing
• Mathematics for Business and Economics
• Microeconomics: Allocation and Distribution
• National and International Financial Relations
• Operations Management
• Organizational Behavior in International Companies
• Political Economy and Social Structure of Modern Society
• Principles of Business Information Systems
• Principles of Financial Accounting
• Principles of Corporate Finance
• Product and Distribution Management
• Regional Studies
• Selected Issues in Business Finance
• Selected Issues in Marketing
• Self-Management
• Statistics
• Strategic Management
• Work, Business, and Society