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Professor Jose Manuel Campos N

Room 505

Campus Liberia

Schedule Tuesdays 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Email jcamposn@utn.ac.cr

Website EnglishPost.org

Course Schedule

Week 01: Identify Proper Communication Strategies
2025-01-21
Week 02: How to use Idioms with Work-Related Topics
2025-01-28
Week 03: How to Express and Justify Opinions
2025-02-04
Writing Task #1 - (2%)
Week 04: How to Negotiate Prices and Dates
2025-02-11
Oral Task #1 - (5%)
Week 05: How to Summarize Information
2025-02-18
Writing Task #2 - (2%)
Week 06: How to Write a Resume
2025-02-25
Short Test #1 - 15%
Week 07: Midterm Interview
2025-03-04
Interview #1 - (20%)
Week 08: How to Write an Online Profile
2025-03-11
Week 09: How to Talk about Entrepreneurship
2025-03-18
Week 10: How to Ask for and Get Feedback
2025-03-25
Oral Task #2 - (5%)
Week 11: How to Market Different Products and Services
2025-04-01
Writing Task #3 - (2%)
Week 12: How to Present your Business Idea
2025-04-08
Writing Task #4 - (2%)
Week Off: Week off due to the Holy Week
2025-04-15
Week 13: How to Carry out a Job Interview
2025-04-22
Short Test #2 - (15%)
Week 14: Final Interview
2025-04-29
Final Interview - (20%)

Assessment Structure

In-Class Assessment (90%)

Oral Tasks, Writing Tasks, and Tests and Interviews will take place during lessons on the specified dates. Scores will be handed in or reported on the Virtual Campus and Avatar eight days after they were taken.

Out-of-Class Assessment (10%)

Virtual Campus #1 (4%): Tasks tagged as "homework" from week #1 to week #6. You have at least 8 days to complete the tasks of each week. Scores will be added to the Avatar on Week #7.

Virtual Campus #2 (4%): Tasks tagged as "homework" from week #8 to week #13. You have at least 8 days to complete the tasks of each week. Scores will be added to the Avatar on Week #14.

Webinar (2%): Webinar Links will be shared once they are made available to me.

Additional Information

Other Important Dates

Quarter Ends on May 4th

Final Grades will be available on the Avatar sometime between May 4th and May 11th

La prueba de sustitución will take place sometime between May 12th and May 15th

The results of the prueba de sustitución will be available sometime between May 12th and May 17th

Considerations

#1: If you miss an evaluation, you are required to present a formal justification no later than 8 calendar days after the missed date. Please review articles 26 to 29 from the Reglamento de Evaluación del Proceso de Aprendizajes for detailed requirements

#2: If you are absent from three classes, you risk failing the course. Attendance is crucial to your success and is monitored closely.

#3 Articles #30 to #37 of the Reglamento de Evaluación del Proceso de Aprendizaje outline the conditions under which you may be eligible to take the "Prueba de sustitución". Please review these articles for detailed requirements.

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