AGRICULTURAL
UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS
Department of Agribusiness
& Supply Chain Management

5515 - English Terminology I

Content


Thematic Units: 1. Management and Human Resources Management 2. Supply Chain Optimization 3. Inventory Management 4. Procurement and Sourcing 5. Logistics and Distribution 6. Quality Assurance and Control 7. Financial Terms in Agribusiness 8. Risk Management and Insurance 9. Marketing and Branding 10. Legal and Regulatory Terms in Agribusiness 11. Technology and Innovation 12. Sustainability 13. International Trade and Exports

Skills: -Academic writing -Presentation skills -Discussion skills -Translating Skills -Communication Skills -Listening Skills

Learning results

Learning Outcomes:
The scope of the course is to help students to:

●Enrich their vocabulary and gain access to advanced vocabulary and idiomatic expressions used in professional and everyday contexts.

●Use business language terms and concepts in English and understand extensive texts related to agricultural business management and supply chain systems.

●Use terms and concepts from various fields related to entrepreneurship and agribusiness in English.

●Use terms and concepts of Logistics and Supply Chain Management in English.

Upon successful completion of the course the student will be able to:

●Understands and uses terms and concepts related to agricultural business management and supply chain systems in the English language.

●Reads and comprehends extensive texts related to their field, as well as communicates effectively in a business environment.

●Composes scientific texts in English.

General Competences:
●Research, analysis, and synthesis of data and information, using the necessary technologies.
● Adaptation to new situations.
● Decision making.
● Independent work.
● Teamwork.
● Promotion of free, creative, and inductive thinking

Bibliography

Bibliography:

• English – Greek Dictionary of Supply Chain Management and Logistics Terms, Dimitrios Xidis
• ACADEMIC WRITING, RIZOPOULOU NONI , DISIGMA PUBLICATIONS
• Managing public speaking and presentations: A comprehensive guide, Γαβριήλ Διαμαντής
Extra academic material:

• From Agriscience to Agribusiness [electronic resource], Nicholas Kalaitzandonakes / Elias G. Carayannis / Evangelos Grigoroudis / Stelios Rozakis
• City Logistics 1 [electronic resource], Taniguchi
• City Logistics 2 [electronic resource], Taniguchi
• City Logistics 3 [electronic resource], Taniguchi
• The Cloud-Based Demand-Driven Supply Chain [electronic resource], Sharma

Instructor's Notes:
Students are also provided with texts for study and practice, as well as many graded language exercises for the practice and reinforcement of vocabulary and grammatical-syntactic phenomena.

Faculty

3 Hours per week
 0 Credits
Direction:  

NEWSLETTER

The Department was created in 2019 (article 20, Law 4589/2019) and is an evolution of the Supply Systems Management Department (D.S.E.). Housed in a 770 sq.m. building. within a plot with a total area of 8,000 sq.m. in facilities with extensive research and teaching spaces.
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