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Week 11: The European Union Monday 4 th April

Mr. Niall Douglas. Week 11: The European Union Monday 4 th April. What I have been doing the last three weeks . Went on a business trip to London for a week Wrote and submitted an academic paper Sold some phones (bloody FedEx!)

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Week 11: The European Union Monday 4 th April

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  1. Mr. Niall Douglas Week 11: The European UnionMonday 4th April

  2. What I have been doing the last three weeks ... • Went on a business trip to London for a week • Wrote and submitted an academic paper • Sold some phones (bloody FedEx!) • Started conducting information warfare against Google no less ... 

  3. Schedule for Today • 9am-9.30am: Week 6 and 7 exam results • 9.30am-9.45am: Business Critical Thinking Skills Lecture Plan • 9.45am-11am: Video worksheet on “The Century of the Self (part 1)” • 11.20am-12pm: Pronunciation • 12pm-12.40pm: Business vocab • 12.40pm-1.20pm: Reading work

  4. Exam results for Week 6

  5. Exam Results for Week 6

  6. Exam Results for Week 7

  7. Exam Results for Week 7

  8. Exam Results for Week 7 • One definite problem was that all but one of the spreadsheets supplied in Week 7 didn’t follow the design specified in the task. The spreadsheet MUST have: • An input sheet containing ONLY the inputs • A calculations sheet • A report sheet containing ONLY the outputs (Show an example sheet ...)

  9. Averages • Week 6: International Law • Week 7: Banking and Finance

  10. Questions? • Questions?

  11. Business Critical Thinking Skills • We are now into our last two weeks together ... Boo hoo! <sad panda> • My opinion is that we ought to make best use of it in improving you • I am very glad to report that early this morning (2am!) Carol Springer from Georgia State University gave me permission to use the full Business Critical Thinking Skills syllabus – all eight stages from her 2004 and 2007 papers

  12. Business Critical Thinking Skills • This is the continuation of the Safe Night Out (SNO) group task you had in Week 7 • Here is what I am proposing: • You stay in the groups you were in Week 7 • We reduce how much readings and vocab you must do (we have two weeks for the European Union) • We move to doing a Group Task starting tomorrow (Tuesday) due for Thursday • When then have TWO Group Tasks starting Thursday due for Monday next week

  13. Business Critical Thinking Skills • And then next week, to put you in a very realistic Business environment: • Very small readings and vocab on the EU next week • And a SNO group task each night due for the following morning • This will cover all eight of the SNO syllabus stages • Each group task is the format as before: (i) Spreadsheet (ii) Presentation and (iii) Report

  14. Business Critical Thinking Skills • This wouldn’t affect your TOEIC prep and other English language studies • We normally have two hours of theory and two hours of ELT each day, so this only affects the theory part • I suppose it depends on how much you like “the theory of the European Union” ...

  15. Business Critical Thinking Skills • Why would this be a good idea? • Remember from surveys of Business that Presentation skills are highly lacking in typical Business school graduates • Remember that effectively organising oneself and one’s group is also typically highly lacking in graduates • And so are critical thinking skills in general ... • It will be a lot of work for both me and for you – I have to grade all these each night! • Do you think you can cope with this?

  16. The Century of the Self • Remember how I have been telling you about “cultural software”? • This is “programmed” by corporations to make us all behave a certain way (i.e. Buy stuff we don’t need) • For example, when women feel bad about themselves they feel an impulse to go shopping for a new dress or new shoes. This is programmed into women by corporations – it never happened 100 years ago ...

  17. The Century of the Self • The following documentary is about the history of propaganda (nowadays called “public relations”) • This is the first part of four parts – it is about a man called Edward Bernays • He invented public relations – and had a massive influence on each and every one of you, and your parents, and your grandparents

  18. The Century of the Self • He invented “the consumer” • He changed how we used to perceive society as us being citizens/subjects to us being consumers • He invented making people buy stuff they don’t want or need • And interestingly, he did this for our own good ...

  19. Pronuciation

  20. Business Vocab

  21. Tonight’s reading • Explain Tonight’s reading

  22. This Week’s Group Task • Explain this week’s Group Task

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