English for Business and Entrepreneurship
Learn about the core aspects of the English language required to succeed in international business through the English for Business and Entrepreneurship Course.
Beginner
Online
5 Weeks
Free Quick Facts
| Medium Of Instructions | Mode Of Learning | Mode Of Delivery |
|---|---|---|
| English | Self Study | Video and Text Based |
Course Overview
The English for Business and Entrepreneurship Training Course is a beginner-level course provided by the University of Pennsylvania and financed by the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Office of English Language Programs. The course available on the Coursera website is taught in a 100% online mode.
The English for Business and Entrepreneurship Certification Course is a self-paced course that is suitable for non-native speakers of the English language who would like to explore more about the aspects of language in connection with the global economy and entrepreneurship sector. The course is delivered through interesting video lectures and authentic reading materials in the English language.
The English for Business and Entrepreneurship Online Course will help learners become proficient in the language topics required to emerge successful in the international business arena. The 5 weeks long will include core business concepts and notions along with business vocabulary and language features.
The Highlights
- Shareable certificate
- Self-paced course
- Beginner level
- Flexible deadlines
- 100% online
- 5 weeks duration
- 31 study hours
- Video lectures
- Authentic readings
- Reading materials by Newsela
- Practice quizzes
- Graded assignments
- Peer review
- Financial aid
- English medium
- Subtitles in Subtitles: English, Arabic, French, Portuguese (European), Italian, Vietnamese, German, Russian, Spanish
Programme Offerings
- Digital Shareable Certificate
- Self-paced Course
- Flexible Deadlines
- 100% Online
- English medium
- English Subtitles
- 5 Weeks Duration
- financial aid
- Peer review
- videos
- practice quizzes
- Academic Readings
- Graded Assignments
- 31 Study Hours.
Courses and Certificate Fees
| Fees Informations | Certificate Availability | Certificate Providing Authority |
|---|---|---|
| INR 2435 | yes | Coursera |
The fees for the course English for Business and Entrepreneurship is -
| Head | Amount in INR |
| Certificate fee | Rs. 2,435 |
What you will learn
After finishing the English for Business and Entrepreneurship Online Course, you will learn about the following topics:
- Basic concepts related to entrepreneurship
- English and vocabulary for business
- Language and reading skills for a business speaker
- Conducting market research for new products
- Listening strategies, questions and intonations
- Ways to create a business plan
- Different ways to attract investors
- How to create an effective pitch for business
Admission Details
Follow the given steps given to enroll in English for Business and Entrepreneurship Course:
Step 1: Click on the URL given below - https://www.coursera.org/learn/business
Step 2: Click on the “Enroll for Free” link and find the desired course.
Step 3: Fill in the required details and complete the process.
The Syllabus
Videos
- Welcome to English for Business & Entrepreneurship (Video 1)
- Course Introduction Part I - Course Overview (Video 2)
- Course Introduction Part II - Using the Course Site (Video 3)
- Unlockable Achievement
- What is Entrepreneurship? (Video 4 Part 1)
- What is Entrepreneurship? (Video 4 Part 2)
- Language Focus - Reading Skills (Video 5 Part 1)
- Language Focus - Reading Skills (Video 5 Part 2)
- Unlockable Achievement
- Why Entrepreneurship? (Video 6 Part 1)
- Why Entrepreneurship? (Video 6 Part 2)
- Ideas, Products, and Opportunities (Video 7)
- Unlockable Achievement
- Unlockable Achievement
- Creating Simple, One-Sentence Product Descriptions (Video 8 Part 1)
- Creating Simple, One-Sentence Product Descriptions (Video 8 Part 2)
- Deciding on a Type of Startup (Video 9 Part 1)
- Deciding on a Type of Startup, Guest Speaker (Video 9 Part 2)
- Risk, Failure, and Important Steps (Video 10 Part 1)
- Risk, Failure, and Important Steps (Video 10 Part 2)
- Language Focus - Comparative Structures (Video 11 Part 1)
- Language Focus - Comparative Structures (Video 11 Part 2)
- Language Focus - Comparative Structures (Video 11 Part 3)
- Online Learning Opportunities to Extend Your Skills
Readings
- Overview of the Unit
- Video/Listening: Elon Musk's Journey to Mars
- Game 1: Unit 1 Vocabulary Flashcards
- BASIC: Entrepreneurship seen as solution to South Africa's unemployment crisis
- ADVANCED: Entrepreneurship seen as a solution to South Africa’s unemployment crisis
- Women taxi startups gaining speed globally
- African women entrepreneurs think big and share dreams
- “This recent grad brewed a startup by managing the details”
- Young Entrepreneurs Win Million-Dollar Prize
- “Many paths lead to successful business startups”
- “Entrepreneurs find new ways to address housing shortages"
- Video: “Ludwick Marishane: A bath without water”
- “Broadway rallies to save a beloved diner"
- Game: Unit 1 Vocabulary Flashcards
Assignments
- Unit 1 Assessment 1: Self-Assessment of Business & Entrepreneurship Vocabulary Knowledge
- Check Your Understanding: "Entrepreneurship Seen as Solution to S. Africa's Unemployment Crisis"
- Value Affirmation Activity
- Check Your Understanding: "African women entrepreneurs think big and share dreams"
- Check Your Understanding: "This recent grad brewed a startup by managing the details"
- Game 2: Identifying Different Types of Products
- Game 3: Creating Product Descriptions
- Game 4: Correlative Connectors & Sentence Connectors
- Check Your Understanding: "Young Entrepreneurs Win Million-Dollar Prize"
- Game: Connector Practice Activity
- Check Your Understanding: "Many paths lead to successful business startups"
- Check Your Understanding: Entrepreneurs find new ways to address housing shortages
- Check Your Understanding: "Ludwick Marishane: A Bath Without Water"
- Check Your Understanding: "Broadway rallies to save a beloved diner"
Discussion Prompt
- Unit 1 Assessment 2: Compare and Contrast Selling Goods to Selling Services
Videos
- Market Research and Testing to Identify Opportunities (Video 1)
- Unlockable Achievement
- Informal Research - Advantages and Disadvantages (Video 2)
- Formal Research - Advantages and Disadvantages (Video 3 Part 1)
- Formal Research - Advantages and Disadvantages (Video 3 Part 2)
- Language Focus - Listening Strategies (Video 4 Part 1)
- Language Focus - Listening Strategies (Video 4 Part 2)
- Unlockable Achievement
- Creating a Survey (Video 5 Part 1)
- Creating a Survey (Video 5 Part 2)
- Language Focus - Questions and Intonation (Video 6 Part 1)
- Language Focus - Questions and Intonation (Video 6 Part 2)
- Language Focus: Sample questions and intonation
- Unlockable Achievement
- Collecting Data (Video 7)
- Evaluating Results (Video 8)
- Unlockable Achievement
- Completing Assessment 2 (Video 9 Part 1)
- Completing Assessment 2 (Video 9 Part 2)
- Unlockable Achievement
Readings
- Overview of the Unit
- Game 1: Unit 2 Vocabulary Flashcards
- BASIC: Washington state's new apple joining a changing industry
- ADVANCED: Washington state's new apple joining a changing industry
- BASIC: Bugs are the new food
- ADVANCED: Bugs are the new food
- Samples of Question Forms and Intonation (for Assessment 1)
- Assessment 2 Model
- “Taiwanese business seeks specialized markets”
- “People who bring their own grocery bags are more likely to buy junk food”
- Game: Unit 2 Vocabulary Flashcards
Assignments
- Check Your Comprehension: "Washington state's new apple joining a changing industry"
- Game 2: More Practice with Comparative Language
- Check Your Comprehension: "Bugs are the new food"
- Game 3: Creating Survey Questions
- Unit 2, Assessment 1: Questions and Intonation
- Analyzing Sample Survey Data
- Game: Question Matching Practice Activity
- Check Your Understanding: "Taiwanese business seeks specialized markets"
- Check Your Understanding: "People who bring their own grocery bags are more likely to buy junk food"
Peer Review
- Unit 2, Assessment 2: Your Survey and Results
Videos
- Why write a business plan? (Video 1)
- Strategic Language Focus - Intensifiers & degree complements in persuasive business writing (Video 2 Part 1)
- Strategic Language Focus - Intensifiers & degree complements in persuasive business writing (Video 2 Part 2)
- Unlockable Achievement
- Business description, including management and operations (Video 3)
- Marketing: Part I: Vocabulary and Concepts (Video 4 Part 1)
- Marketing: Part I: Vocabulary and Concepts (Video 4 Part 2)
- Marketing: Part I: Vocabulary and Concepts (Video 4 Part 3)
- Marketing: Part II: Business Plan (Video 5 Part 1)
- Marketing: Part II: Business Plan (Video 5 Part 2)
Readings
- Overview of unit
- Basic: nigeria's wecyclers work for reusable future in lagos
- Advanced: nigeria’s wecyclers work for reusable future in lagos
- Basic: chinese go to los angeles for kobe bryant, but skip the beach
- Advanced: chinese go to los angeles for kobe bryant, but skip the beach
- “50 business ideas you can start for under $100"
- "Chilean government seeks to boost female-led start-ups"
- Game: unit 3 vocabulary flashcards
Assignments
- Game 1: Practice with degree complements and intensifiers
- Check Your Understanding: "Nigeria's Wecyclers work for reusable future in Lagos"
- Check Your Understanding: "Chinese Go to Los Angeles for Kobe Bryant, But Skip the Beach"
- Game 2: Sorting the 4 Ps
- Check your Understanding: "50 business ideas you can start for under $100"
- Check Your Understanding: "Chilean government seeks to boost female-led start-ups"
Discussion Prompt
- Unit 3 Assessment 1: Business ideas for your local community
Vidoes
- Financials: Part I: Startup Costs, Operating Costs & Sales Projections (Vocabulary & concept focus) (Video 6)
- Financials: Part II: Income statement (Vocabulary & concept focus) (Video 7)
- Financials: Part III: Startup Costs, Sales & Revenue Projections, Cost Projections & Income Statement (Calculations) (Video 8 Part 1)
- Financials: Part III: Startup Costs, Sales & Revenue Projections, Cost Projections & Income Statement (Calculations) (Video 8 Part 2)
- Financials: Part III: Startup Costs, Sales & Revenue Projections, Cost Projections & Income Statement (Calculations) (Video 8 Part 3)
- Strategic Language Focus - Describing Financials (Video 9)
- Creating a brief business plan (Video 10 Part 1)
- Creating a brief business plan (Video 10 Part 2)
- Unlockable Achievement
Readings
- Template and Model for Brief Business Plans (for Assessment 2)
- It's a startup world!
- Game: Unit 3 Vocabulary Flashcards
Assignments
- Game 3: Vocabulary: Word problems matching numbers with words
- Game 4: Vocabulary: Word problems matching numbers with words
- Game 5: Interpreting Results
- Check Your Understanding: "It's a startup world!"
Peer Review
- Unit 3 Assessment 2: Written Business Plan
Vidoes
- Financing a Business: Bootstrapping versus Outside Funding (Video 1 Part 1)
- Financing a Business: Bootstrapping versus Outside Funding (Video 1 Part 2)
- Unlockable Achievement
- Debt-Financing: Bank Loans and Microloans (Video 2 Part 1)
- Debt-Financing: Bank Loans and Microloans (Video 2 Part 2)
- Unlockable Achievement
- Equity-Financing: Venture Capital (Video 3 Part 1)
- Equity-Financing: Venture Capital (Video 3 Part 2)
- Finding Investors in the Social Network (Video 4)
- Crowdfunding (Video 5 Part 1)
- Crowdfunding (Video 5 Part 2)
- Listening: Crowd-sourced funding provides kickstart to new business ventures
- Unlockable Achievement
- Making a Pitch to Attract Investors (Video 6 Part 1)
- Making a Pitch to Attract Investors (Video 6 Part 2)
- Creating an Effective Hook (Video 7 Part 1)
- Creating an Effective Hook (Video 7 Part 2)
- Adding Impact: Word Stress, Body Language,& Eye Contact (Video 8)
- Listening: How to Pitch a Business
- Unlockable Achievement
- Persuasive Pitch, Two Samples
- Unlockable Achievement
- Course Conclusion
Readings
- Overview of the Unit
- Poll: Businesses Designed to Help India's Poor Attract Overseas Investors
- Instructions for Assessment 2: Persuasive Elevator Pitch
- Sample Elevator Pitch and Elevator Pitch Template
- BASIC: Tech startups boom in India, attract big investments
- Advanced: Tech startups boom in India, attract big investments
- "Crowdfunding for business growing in Africa"
- "The original social network: How global diasporas can mean big business"
- Game: Unit 4 Vocabulary Flashcards
Assignments
- Unit 4 Assessment 1: Reflective Response
- Check Your Understanding: "Poll: Businesses Designed to Help India's Poor Attract Overseas Investors"
- Check Your Understanding: "Crowd-sourced funding provides 'Kickstart' to new business ventures"
- Game 1: Be brief!
- Check Your Understanding: "How to Pitch a Business"
- Unit 4 Assessment 2: Elevator Pitch (written)
- Check Your Understanding: "Tech startups boom in India, attract big investments"
- Check Your Understanding: "Crowdfunding for businesses growing in Africa"
- Check Your Understanding: "The original social network: How global diasporas can mean big business"
- Game: Build a Pitch - Structure Practice
Instructors
Penn Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's)
1: What is the total duration of the English for Business and Entrepreneurship Course?
The 100% online course is taught over 5 weeks.
2: Are subtitles available in languages other than English?
Yes, the video lectures of the course provide subtitles in English, Arabic, French, Portuguese (European), Italian, Vietnamese, German, Russian and Spanish
3: Can I attend the course for free?
Yes, the certificate course provides students the opportunity to audit the course and get access to course materials free of cost.
4: Will I get placement help from the English for Business and Entrepreneurship Online Course?
No, learners do not receive any placement help through the English for Business and Entrepreneurship Course.
5: Who are the English for Business and Entrepreneurship Certification Course instructors?
The course is coordinated by Amy Nichols and James Riedel of the English Language Programs, University of Pennsylvania.
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