The goal of this course is to provide students with the knowledge and skills needed to communicate in English in corporate and professional contexts. It does this by fulfilling two related aims. Firstly, the course aims to provide students with an understanding of influential discourse analytical frameworks used in the analysis of corporate and professional communication. Secondly, the course aims to develop in students the ability to apply these frameworks to particular areas of professional and corporate practice. Students will develop an understanding of common corporate and professional genres, workplace interactions, and collaborative composing processes. In addition, they will develop the ability to critically evaluate the communicative requirements of specific corporate and professional contexts and will be able to apply this ability not only to contexts encountered on the course but also to novel communicative situations that they will encounter in future.