2026/2027
Английский язык для современной социокультурной повестки: экспертный уровень
Статус:
Маго-лего
Кто читает:
Школа иностранных языков
Где читается:
Факультет гуманитарных наук
Когда читается:
2-4 модуль
Онлайн-часы:
20
Охват аудитории:
для своего кампуса
Преподаватели:
Нагорная Александра Викторовна
Язык:
английский
Кредиты:
9
Контактные часы:
92
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The course 'English for the Current Social Agenda' consists of two aspects: the grammar aspect and the critical thinking aspect. The first presents a systematic picture of practical English grammar at the proficiency level; the second allows the students to enhance their vocabulary and communication skills through discussion of various topics within the current social agenda.
Learning Objectives
- The goal of the course is to consolidate practical grammar of the English language and enhance critical thinking skills at the profficiecy level.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- The students are able to discuss the basic features of contemporary metamodern culture. The students are supposed to master special terminology
- The students know current theories of celebrity culture and apply relevasnt criteria to the assessment of individual celebrities
- The students analyze the benefits and drawbacks of achievement culture in different social settings
- The students analyze current trends in consumer behavior
- The students master the most relevant theories of time (objective and subjective time, social and individual time, time acceleration and deceleration) and discuss the most recent cultural trends related to time experience
- The students learn about the most recent advances in the study of emotions and identify new cultural trends related to emotions
- The students discuss intellect as a type of cultural and social capital
- The students discuss the role of creativity in everyday life
- The students discuss the most relevant ideas that have been developed within Ecological Thinking recently
- The students discuss and critically assess trendy bodily practices
- The students correctly use target vocabulary
Course Contents
- Metamodern Culture
- The Age of Celebrity
- Chasing More: The Culture of Achievementism
- From Luxury to Necessity: The Making of Modern Consumers
- Out of Time: Modern Life in Overdrive
- The Emotional Society
- Brains in Fashion: The Rise of Intellectual Chic
- Creativity in Action
- Rethinking Life: Ecology as Our Everyday Lens
- Between Flesh and Flow: The Body in Metamodern Culture
Assessment Elements
- Vocabulary Test
- Oral PresentationThe students prepare an oral presentation on the topic related to the course. The format is specified by the instructor (Ted Talk, mini-lecture, academic presentation, etc.)
- Final TestThe students write a test that covers all the target vocabulary of the course
