This course is part of the Intermediate Spanish: People and Places ExpertTrack
Intermediate Spanish: Spanish for Education and Work
Explore education systems and learn to talk about your educational background, skills, and professional experience.
Duration
4 weeksWeekly study
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Course 3 of 3
Intermediate Spanish: Spanish for Education and Work
Advance your career and personal aspirations in the Worlds of Spanish
On this four-week course, you’ll investigate some of the differences between the educational systems in Spain and Latin America and learn how to talk about your own educational background with the use of past tenses.
You’ll explore the strong connection between education and employment by looking at the role of education, and particularly languages, in the job market.
Discover job and work experience opportunities using the Spanish language
You’ll find out about exchange scholarships, volunteering programmes, internships, and job opportunities, to help you determine whether you would like to pursue practising and developing your language skills in Spanish.
Then, this course will guide you through how to communicate effectively in professional and educational environments and will help you demonstrate skills such as how to express obligation, give instructions, and offer advice.
Make dreams of living in Spain or Latin America a reality
You’ll learn how to showcase your professional experience and talk about your skills in Spanish, discovering new structures and useful expressions to help you identify your employability skills and describe them. This will help you in interview and networking scenarios and could be the key to pursuing a new career in Spain and Latin America.
You will research different job and volunteering opportunities available online and choose one you are interested in.
By the end of the course, you will be able to put everything you have learnt into practice in order to apply for a position.
What topics will you cover?
- Education and employment in the Spanish-speaking countries
- Identifying and understanding skill requirements for educational/volunteering/professional opportunities
- Asking for information related to job opportunities and job skills
- Identifying and describing employability skills
- Applying for a job or a volunteering position in a Spanish-speaking country
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- Make your career dreams a reality.
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Learning on this course
On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
- Explore education systems and labour markets in Spanish speaking countries to discuss educational opportunities and employability
- Produce spoken and written Spanish communication, talking about your educational background, asking for information, and expressing your skills and professional experience
- Interpret spoken and written Spanish communication, describing educational opportunities, job requirements and working conditions
- Develop plans for future learning, career goals and personal development
Who is the course for?
This course is designed for those with a good basic knowledge of Spanish (fully at Level A2 of the Common European Framework of Reference), who would like to improve their competence in the language and deepen their understanding of different cultures
Who will you learn with?
Ms Eva Estrany MA DPSI is an Associate Lecturer at the Open University and a member of the Chartered Institute of Linguists. She has been designing and teaching Spanish courses for over twenty years.
With a strong background in Gender and Latin American Studies, Soledad works at the intersections of language, creativity and community engagement with multilingual communities in the UK.
Who developed the course?
The Open University
As the UK’s largest university, The Open University (OU) supports thousands of students to achieve their goals and ambitions via supported distance learning, helping to fit learning around professional and personal life commitments.
Established
1969Location
Milton Keynes, UKWorld ranking
Top 510Source: Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2020
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