Argumentation

The course improves the participants’ argumentative and rational conflict management skills and helps them develop a critical and reflective attitude. We are going to study the central logical, argumentation-theoretic, and rhetorical concepts and will apply them to reallife dialogues. We are going to pay special attention to those aspects of argumentation that are particularly important in business settings like negotiation, decision making, and selling.

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Credits none prerequisite flexible timeslots class 2 admitted at

Community and Individual

The course introduces the students – through lectures and related seminars – to the theories of the relationship between individuals and society with special emphasis on social practices in business life. Students get acquainted with the basic elements and procedures of social psychology, famous experiments, ethical implications of actions, and the mechanisms to which humans are necessarily exposed in social situations. The course serves as a basis for several other classes in business and economics.

three prerequisite flexible timeslots class 1 22 admitted at