• Understand specialised texts within the legal, financial and economic areas covered during the course, and select and reproduce relevant content of such specialised texts in a way that fits the frame of understanding of a new audience, e.g. a non-expert audience
• Select communicative and linguistic strategies that match a given situational context and genre, and explain these choices
• Implement a concrete communication by producing written texts in professional English based on the relevant strategic choices made in the given situational context

The aim of the course is for students to acquire knowledge about selected areas within the domains of law, finance and economics, and to develop skills to communicate such knowledge in professional English across occupational sub-cultures and between experts and non-experts. Both English and Danish texts and cases will be used during the course in order for students to gain knowledge about comparisons between selected areas of Danish and English professional language. Additionally, students will acquire theoretical communicative and linguistic knowledge required for successful professional communication.

The focus will be on selected areas within the knowledge domains of law, economics and finance. Examples of thematic modules covered during the course could be companies’ financial reporting, mergers and acquisitions and employment law. Furthermore, students will gain a theoretical and practical understanding of communicative and linguistic aspects which are relevant for successful professional communication, including aspects such as genre and register, reformulation and popularization strategies, crisis communication strategies and argumentative structure. The language of instruction will be a mixture of English and Danish.

Students who wish to obtain the best possible understanding of the areas covered and who wish to develop their competences within these areas must be prepared to engage actively in classwork (e.g. peer review, workshops with cases). Furthermore, students are expected to come prepared for the classes, since otherwise their benefit from the materials and activities will be limited.

A number of textbook chapters and journal articles, to be published on the course platform prior to semester start, covering the relevant knowledge domains and communicative and linguistic topics dealt with during the course.