Course Schedule

Professor Jose Manuel Campos N

Room 807

Campus Cañas

Schedule Tuesdays 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Email jcamposn@utn.ac.cr

Website EnglishPost.org

Syllabus IDIER03

Webinars List of Webinars

Week 01: How to Express Personal Views and Opinions

2025-09-16

Week 02: How to Express Regrets and Complaints

2025-09-23

Week 03: How to Describe Charts, Graphs and Tables

2025-09-30

Writing Task #1 - (2.5%)

Week 04: How to Make Simple and Direct Comparisons

2025-10-07

Writing Task #2 - (2.5%)

Week 05: How to Identify the Main Parts of an Oral Presentations

2025-10-14

Short Test #1 - (10%)

Week 06: How to Deliver an Oral Presentation

2025-10-21

Oral Task #1 - (5%)

Week 07: Midterm Interview

2025-10-28

Interview #1 - (20%)

Week 08: How to Report Oral and Written Points

2025-11-04

Writing Task #3 - (2.5%)

Week 09: How to Carry out a Job Interview

2025-11-11

Short Test #2 - (10%)

Week 10: How to Write a CV

2025-11-18

Writing Task #4 - (2.5%)

Week 11: How to Justify your points of view

2025-11-25

Oral Task #2 - (5%)

Week 12: How to Talk about Entrepreneurship and Branding

2025-12-02

Short Test #3 - (10%)

Week 13: Final Interview

2025-12-09

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 #11. You have at least 8 days to complete the tasks of each week. Scores will be added to the Avatar on Week #13.

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

Additional Information

Other Important Dates

Quarter Ends on December 14th

Final Grades will be available on the Avatar sometime between December 14th and December 19th

La prueba de sustitución will take place sometime between January 6th and January 9th

La prueba de sustitución results will be submitted to the Avatar on January 11th

La Matricula Extraordinaria will take place on January 12th and January 13th

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.

#4 Please be advised that, in the event of unforeseen circumstances, there may be adjustments to the established chronogram. Any such changes will be communicated promptly to all relevant parties.