French for Professional Contexts I (A0→A1 Beginner)

This course is the first step in the four-semester French language track of the Brussels College Level 6 program. Designed for complete beginners (A0), it develops French language skills to CEFR A1 with consistent focus on professional workplace contexts relevant to French-speaking Belgium. Students build foundational vocabulary for professional, professional and daily-life situations, develop basic receptive skills in listening and reading, and begin producing simple written and spoken French in predictable professional scenarios.

Develop basic French receptive and productive skills at CEFR A1. Build a core professional vocabulary for greetings, introductions, office contexts and everyday Belgian workplace situations in French. Train students to read and write simple professional texts and to interact in basic French in predictable situations.

1. French alphabet, pronunciation and key phonological rules
2. Greetings, introductions and personal information in a professional context
3. Core vocabulary: office, workspace, Belgian administration
4. Numbers, dates, times and the Belgian calendar in French
5. Basic sentence structure and subject pronouns
6. Present tense regular (-er, -ir, -re) verbs and common irregulars
7. Nouns, gender and articles in French
8. Simple questions (est-ce que, inversion basics) and short answers
9. Reading simple French notices, short emails and instructions
10. Basic professional writing: short messages and simple emails in French

1. Understand and produce basic French greetings, introductions and personal information (CEFR A1).
2. Use core workplace vocabulary in simple French sentences with correct basic grammar.
3. Apply present tense verbs (regular and common irregulars) in professional sentences.
4. Read simple French notices, short messages and basic professional emails.
5. Write simple professional emails and short internal messages in French.
6. Interact in basic French in predictable Belgian professional situations.

Course materials and exercises assigned by the lecturer. Recommended: A1 French beginner materials appropriate to Belgian professional contexts.

This is an introductory microeconomics course. The aim of the course is to develop an understanding of elementary microeconomics analysis and its applications. By the end of the term, the student will have acquired a basic understanding of the main microeconomics topics, including analysis of the consumer, the firm, the economics of public sector and product markets. The material covered as part of this course will help students to organize their ideas about economics.

Learning economics at the introducing level. Why we are studying economics? Why do we need science of economics? Basic concepts of economics. Tools of economics. The logic of economics. Markets and government in a modern economy. Basic elements of supply and demand. Applications of supply and demand. Comprehending of economic life, analyzing of firm behaviors and deciding processes, analyzing of factor markets and firms deciding strategies in different markets, analyzing of firm behaviors in monopoly, monopoly competition and oligopoly markets and analyzing factor.

1. Central concepts of economics.
2. Demand, supply and market equilibrium.
3. Demand and consumer behavior.
4. Analysis of costs.
5. Overview of macroeconomics.

1. The student will be able to use basic economic concepts and learning of using tools of economics.
2. The student will be able to identify the economic deciding processes of a rational consumer in ordinal and cardinal consumption theory.
3. The student will be able to choose the appropriate decision making in the market by consumers and producers.
4. The student will be able to examine how market, demand, and supply functions as mathematically and theoretically.
5. The student will be able to prove how economic models can be applied to different markets.

Economics, P.A.Samuelson-W.D.Nordhaus , 20th ed., Mc Graw-Hill Ins.,2019 Economics, M. Parkin, Pearson; 12 edition (2015)