Бакалавриат
2026/2027
Английский для специальных целей
Статус:
Курс обязательный (Международная программа «Международные отношения и глобальные исследования»)
Кто читает:
Факультет мировой экономики и мировой политики
Где читается:
Факультет мировой экономики и мировой политики
Когда читается:
1-й курс, 1-4 модуль
Охват аудитории:
для своего кампуса
Язык:
английский
Кредиты:
6
Контактные часы:
114
Course Syllabus
Abstract
English for Specific Purposes aims at shaping the communicative and professional competence in English which implies an ability to interact in English in the context of cross-cultural professional communication. Language skills are developed when studying authentic texts on political issues. Learning is practice-oriented.
Learning Objectives
- - to broaden and expand the students’ proficiency and knowledge of English; - to develop the students’ listening skills to enable them to understand and to use the information from the input; - to develop the students’ reading skills for the gist and detailed information, to make inferences and deduce the meanings from the context; - to develop the students’ speaking skills to enable them to produce a structured talk on the issue in question.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- learn to describe a line graph
- learn to describe a pie chart
- learn to describe a set of visuals
- learn to describe a table
- learn about the difference between nationalism and patriotism
- learn about the difference between presidential and parliamentary systems
- learn about pluses and minuses of two-party and multi-party systems
- learn about types of bureaucracy
- learn about climate change
- learn about energy security (definition, factors, components, stategies)
- learn about types of elections
- learn about opinion polls
- learn to differentiate politics and policy
- learn different kinds of politics
- learn different kinds of policies
- learn the vocabulary related to policy and politics
- learn about conditions of statehood
- learn types of sovereignty
- discuss challenges to sovereignty
- discuss humanitarian interventions
- learn the vocabulary related to discussing states, statehood and sovereignty
- learn about different types of political regimes
- learn about democracy
- discuss problems of democracy
- discuss positive and negative sides of democracy
- learn the vocabulary related to poltiical regimes and, in particular, democracy
- learn about what is nationalism
- learn about different types of nationalism
- discuss positive and negtiave influence of nationalism
- learn the vocabulary related to natiolnalism
- learn about three branches of power
- learn about advantages and disadvantages of big and small governments
- learn about benefits and shortcomings of e-governance
- learn the vocabulary related to government
- learn about global environmental efforts
- discuss future actions related to combatting climate change
- discuss advantages and disadvantages of GM foods
- discuss other environmental issues
- learn the vocabulary related to climate change and environmental issues
- learn about characteristics of bureaucracy
- learn the vocabulary related to bureaucracy
- learn about types of energy
- learn about advantages and disadvantages of renewable and non-renewable sources of energy
- learn about decarbonization challenges
- learn the vocabulary related to types of energy and energy security
- learn about causes of conflicts
- learn about types of war
- learn about rules of war
- learn about changes in waging war (+ technology)
- discuss pluses and minuses of humanitarian aid
- learn the vocabulary related to conflicts (+ armed ones) and humanitarian aid
- learn about the Harvard principles of negotiations
- learn about negotiation tactics
- discuss character traits and skillls for negotiations
- learn about cross-cultural differences in negotiations
- learn about some prominent diplomatic figures and negotiators
- learn the vocabulary related to negotiations
- learn about campaigning
- learn about ways of committing electoral fraud
- discuss AI in political campaigns and its influence of voter choices
- discuss ways of casting a vote and its pluses and minuses
- discuss pluses and minuses of smear campaings
- learn the vocabulary related to elections
- learn about types of media (traditional and digital)
- learn about relationships between mass media and politics
- learn about freedom of the press (definitions and examples)
- learn about propaganda in media and politics
- learn about political correctness and cancel culture (perspectives, relationships between PC and freedom of the press)
- learn the vocabulary related to media
- learn about types of graphs
- learn the vocabulary related to trends
- learn the vocabulary to compare things
- learn to describe a bar chart
Course Contents
- Politics vs. Policy
- State, Statehood and Sovereignty 26-27
- Political Regimes 26-27
- Nationalism 26-27
- Government 26-27
- Climate Change and Its Political Dimension 26-27
- Bureaucracy 26-27
- Energy Security 26-27
- Armed Conflicts
- Negotiations
- Elections
- Media and Politics
Assessment Elements
- T1 quizzes (the average)
- written assignment (Unit 5)
- M1 in-class graph description
- M2 in-class graph description
- M1 Participation
- M2 Participation
- M1 Speaking card
- M2 Speaking card
- M1 TestListening, reading and vocabulary
- M2 Testlistening, reading and vocabulary
- T1 Exam1. speaking cards M1-M2 and 2. commenting on a quote
- T2 quizzes (the average)
- M3 in-class graph description
- M4 in-class graph description
- M3 Participation
- M4 Participation
- M3 Speaking card
- M4 Speaking card
- M3 Testlistening, reading and vocabulary
- M4 Testlistening, reading and vocabulary
- T2 Exam1. speaking cards M1-M2 and 2. commenting on a quote
Interim Assessment
- 2026/2027 2nd module0.025 * T1 quizzes (the average) + 0.05 * M1 in-class graph description + 0.05 * M2 in-class graph description + 0.05 * M1 Participation + 0.05 * written assignment (Unit 5) + 0.05 * M2 Speaking card + 0.05 * M1 Speaking card + 0.15 * M1 Test + 0.05 * M2 Participation + 0.3 * T1 Exam + 0.15 * M2 Test
- 2026/2027 4th module0.05 * M4 in-class graph description + 0.05 * M4 Participation + 0.05 * M3 Participation + 0.15 * M4 Test + 0.05 * M3 in-class graph description + 0.05 * T2 quizzes (the average) + 0.05 * M3 Speaking card + 0.05 * M4 Speaking card + 0.15 * M3 Test + 0.3 * T2 Exam
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- A dictionary of climate change and the environment : economics, science, and policy, Grafton, R. Q., 2012
- A short introduction to climate change, Eggleton, T., 2013
- Accelerating democracy : transforming governance through technology, McGinnis, J. O., 2013
- Accountability and democracy : the pitfalls and promise of popular control, Borowiak, C. T., 2011
- Achieving democracy : democratization in theory and practice, , 2011
- Active citizen participation in e-government : a global perspective, Manoharan, A., 2012
- Adapting to climate change in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, , 2010
- Advancing democracy, government and governance : Joint International Conference on Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective, and Electronic Democracy, EGOVIS/EDEM 2012, Vienna, Austria, September 3-6, 2012, proceedings, , 2012
- An introduction to the international law of armed conflicts, Kolb, R., 2010
- Analyzing elections, Morton, R. B., 2006
- Armed conflicts in South Asia, 2008 : growing violence, , 2008
- Bridge over troubled waters : linking climate change and development, , 2005
- Bureaucracy : a key idea for business and society, Vine, T., 2021
- Bureaucracy : three paradigms, , 1993
- Bureaucracy : what government agencies do and why they do it, Wilson, J. Q., 1989
- Bureaucracy and democracy : a political dilemma, Etzioni-Halevy, E., 2012
- Bureaucracy and democracy : accountability and performance, Gormley, W. T., 2013
- Bureaucracy and the modern world, Thompson, V. A., 1976
- Bureaucracy, Albrow, M., 1994
- Bureaucracy, Beetham, D., 1996
- Carbon finance : the financial implications of climate change, Labatt, S., 2007
- Challenges and solutions for climate change, Gaast van der, W., 2012
- Climate change : causes, effects, and solutions, Hardy, J. T., 2003
- Climate change : what everyone needs to know, Romm, J., 2016
- Climate change and armed conflict : hot and cold wars, Lee, J. R., 2009
- Climate change and cultural heritage : a race against time, Smith, P. F., 2014
- Climate change and displacement : multidisciplinary perspectives, , 2012
- Climate change and foreign policy : case studies from East to West, , 2013
- Climate change and human mobility : global challenges to the social sciences, , 2012
- Comparing democracies 2 : new challenges in the study of elections and voting, , 2006
- Comparing democracies 3 : elections and voting in the 21st century, , 2010
- Comparing democracies 4 : elections and voting in a changing world, , 2014
- Comparing media systems : three models of media and politics, Hallin, D. C., 2004
- Decisions and elections : explaining the unexpected, Saari, D. G., 2001
- Diplomacy games : formal models and international negotiations, , 2007
- Elections and exit polling, Scheuren, F. J., 2008
- Elections and voters, Eijk van der, C., 2009
- Encyclopedia of media and politics, , 2007
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- Energy security : economics, politics, strategies, and implications, , 2010
- Energy security in Asia, , 2012
- English for international negotiations : a cross-cultural case study approach, Rodgers, D., 1999
- English for international negotiations : a cross-cultural case study approach, Rodgers, D., 2001
- In praise of bureaucracy : Weber, organization, ethics, Du Gay, P., 2000
- Inclusive education, politics and policymaking, Liasidou, A., 2012
- Inside bureaucracy, Downs, A., 1994
- International negotiations, Powell, M., 2011
- Introduction to media and politics, Oates, S., 2008
- Making sense of media and politics: five principles in political communication, Wolfsfeld, G., 2011
- Managing regulation : regulatory analysis, politics and policy, Lodge, M., 2012
- Mass media and politics : a social science perspective, Leighley, J. E., 2004
- On the way to statehood : secession and globalisation, , 2017
- Political regimes in the Arab world : society and the exercise of power, , 2013
- Protest, repression and political regimes : an empirical analysis of Latin America and sub-Suharan Africa, Carey, S. C., 2009
- Russia's changing economic and political regimes: the Putin years and afterwards, Makarychev, A., 2013
- State formations : global histories and cultures of statehood, , 2018
- Statehood and self-determination : reconciling tradition and modernity in international law, , 2013
- The organization of global negotiations : constructing the climate change regime, Depledge, J., 2005
- The politics of transatlantic trade negotiations : TTIP in a globalized world, , 2015
- The psychology of media and politics, Comstock, G., 2005
- Transatlantic energy futures : strategic perspectives on energy security, climate change, and new technologies in Europe and the United States, , 2011
- Voices, identities, negotiations, and conflicts: writing academic across cultures, , 2011