Academic Language Skills: Reading, writing and speaking 1 1.2.W2.EP.1
Course content:
• Speaking, writing and reading exercises based on the following topic areas: culture, globalization, manipulation, authority, gender, race, history, country and nationality
• analysis of selected academic texts
• reading and discussing academic texts pertaining to the chosen seminar profile
• using the Internet and traditional data-base queries
• formulating critical opinions and supportive arguments
• using formal language as required by the chosen specialty
• giving academic presentations
• coordinating academic group discussions
Organization of meetings:
• Discussion on academic text(s)
• Essay writing practice
• Individual presentations
Type of course
Learning outcomes
Knowledge
Graduate knows and understands:
1. in the advanced degree – selected facts, objects and phenomena of language and linguistic and/or literary and/or cultural theories explaining complex dependencies, forming the basic general knowledge in the field of English philology and selected issues of the detailed knowledge (k-W-1)
2. the place and significance of philological science among humanities and the directions of its development (k-W-2)
3. theories, methodology and general and detailed terminology of linguistic and/or literary and/or cultural issues (k-W-3)
4. methods of analysis and interpretation of texts (k-W-4)
Skills
Graduate can
1. use their philological knowledge - formulate and solve problems concerning the discussed issues, and perform tasks in not fully predictable conditions thanks to:
- proper selection of sources and information, evaluation, critical analysis and synthesis of that information (k-U-1)
2. recognize texts and carry out their critical analysis and interpretation with the use of standard philological methods allowing for an assessment of their relevance (k-U-3)
3. communicate with the use of specialized terminology (k-U-4)
4. take part in a debate - present and evaluate different opinions and positions in terms of philology and discuss them (k-U-5)
5. use English as a foreign language at the level of at least C1 of the Common European Framework for Languages (k-U-6)
6. plan and organize individual and team work (k-U-7)
Social competence
Graduate is ready to
1. critically assess their philological knowledge (k-K-1)
2.fulfil social obligations to and co-organize actions (k-K-2)
Assessment criteria
Course requirements and methods of evaluation
• Presentation’s evaluation
• Coordination of discussions
• Getting ‘pluses’ for active participation
• Distributing the texts to peers and the teacher (in print) at least a week before the discussion
• Preparing discussion questions to the group
• Coordinating the discussion
Additional information
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