2023/2024
Английский язык для специальных целей. История - 1
Статус:
Факультатив
Кто читает:
Школа иностранных языков
Когда читается:
1, 2 модуль
Охват аудитории:
для своего кампуса
Язык:
английский
Кредиты:
3
Контактные часы:
48
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The course “English for Specific Purposes. History – 1” is designed for the 1st year Undergraduate (BA) students whose major is History or whose interest lies in History both as an academic discipline and as a professional field. “English for Specific Purposes. History – 1” (3 credits) covers Modules 1 and 2 of the 1st year studies of the BA students.
The course adheres to the "Regulations for Interim and Ongoing Assessments of Students at National Research University Higher School of Economics” and the "Conception of the development of students’ English communicative competence". The main goal of this course is to develop students’ professional intercultural communicative competence (PICC) that is referred to as the “integrative ability of solving professional tasks with the help of foreign language”. The types of learning activities, methods of instruction and the materials of the course enable to model social and professional context of the future graduates’ career paths in the field of History and engage students into the process of using English as a tool of solving professional tasks while developing their hard and transferrable skills, cultivating ability to analyze and think critically, work with different types of information autonomously, cooperate with others, set goals, create new products, work on projects and reflect on their own experience. The course supports guided and autonomous learning engaging on-line/distance learning sources, develops professionally valuable skills and competences and provides tools for undertaking life-long learning activities.
The course contains the following modules:
• Studying History at University in Russia and Abroad: entering procedures, curriculum, subject-specific and interdisciplinary tracks, internships, exchange mobility programs, competitions and conferences, extracurricular activities;
• History as a Career. Academic Track: career paths and choices, background and skills of a successful candidate; applying and having an interview, the job of a historian – challenges and prospects.
The authentic text-, audio- and video-materials used in the course agree with the topics and questions studied by the undergraduate History students within the core disciplines of their curriculum: Introduction into Profession (research seminar); Auxiliary Disciplines of History; History and Source studies; The History of Geography/Literature/Art; The History of the Ancient World (Ancient East, Mesopotamia, Egypt etc.) and Medieval Europe; Archaeology; Social studies; Philosophy etc.
Learning Objectives
- Development of the PICC, as an integrative goal of this course, ensures plunging students as active participants into the process of solving a variety of professionally-oriented tasks with the help of the English language that model a broad diverse social and quasi-professional context of their future career paths. Engaging students in such quasi-professional activities allows to set the following learning objectives of the course: • find out purposes, useful strategies and means of learning about History; • work with different sources and types of information for finding new solutions to the existing problems of the historical field; • discover various types and genres of texts that narrate, describe and analyse historical periods, events and issues; • design innovative creative and personally meaningful research, educational and professional projects related to historical field using Information and Communications technology (ICT); • practice analytical and critical thinking skills; • acquire an ability to cooperate in a team and work autonomously; • reflect on the personal and team work and experience; • develop their problem-solving skills and creativity.
- The course is aimed at mastering the skills of: Reading: • Understanding specialised complex longer texts*/articles and reports concerned with contemporary problems (CEFR); • Understanding text structure; • Using basic reading techniques, skimming & scanning (predicting, understanding main ideas, understanding details). *can use a dictionary occasionally to confirm his/her interpretation of terminology Listening: • Understanding dialogues and polylogues on both familiar and unfamiliar topics; • Understanding lectures; • Using basic listening techniques (predicting, understanding main ideas and details); • Note-taking. Writing: • Summary; • Essay (opinion, discussion); • E-mail (business correspondence); • CV. Speaking: • Dialogue on general topics (active listening, questioning, responding to questions, emphasizing); • Monologue: descriptive/informative/reasoning.
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Students should be prepared: • to contemplate on the process of studying History in Russia and abroad (university entering procedures, curriculum, subject-specific and interdisciplinary tracks, open optional courses, minors, internships, and extracurricular engagement);
- • to produce the analysis of historical events from different historical perspectives in written and oral formats using summarizing, emphasizing, quoting, comparing and contrasting, paraphrasing etc. techniques and making appropriate linguistic choices (style, lexical units, grammar constructions, means of expression etc.);
- • to take an academic interview and write a motivation letter (individual curriculum for studying a semester abroad (optional);
- • to work with sources and different types of information about History as a field of studies: searching and finding relevant info; identifying, analyzing and evaluating the sources (including e-sources);
- • work with information: extracting, organizing and completing the information according to the given task using the strategies of predicting, prioritizing, identifying the general and specific (detailed), key and additional info, recognizing relevant/irrelevant, major and supporting facts, opinions, arguments etc., differentiating between narration, description and reasoning;
- • to design and present a concept/statement of an academic (research/educational) event related to History;• to show the skills of presenting and speculating when given open talks and debating while participating in discussions, Q/A sessions and giving the presentation on History-related topics;
- Students are expected to develop listening skills: - to improve understanding of dialogues and polylogues on both familiar and unfamiliar topics; - to develop understanding of lectures and learning context; - to develop skills of using basic listening techniques (predicting, understanding main ideas and details); - to form skills of note-taking.
- Students are expected to develop reading skills: - understanding of articles, reports, straightforward and specialised texts concerned with contemporary problems at the threshold/vantage/effective operational proficiency level - understanding of text structure - skills of using basic reading techniques skimming and scanning (predicting, understanding main ideas, understanding details)
- Students are expected to produce in speaking:- monologue (informative/descriptive/argumentative/persuasive speech) - dialogue on general, academic and professional topics (active listening, questioning, responding to questions, emphasizing, discussion strategies) - presentation (informative/descriptive/argumentative/persuasive speech)
- Students are expected to produce in writing: - summary - e-mail - small descriptive and analytical texts about history
- Students should be prepared: • to work with ideas and concepts related to the History field (its branches (Social History, Cultural History, Economic History etc.), aims, approaches and issues) individually and in a team using the brainstorming, formulating, refining, adapting, arguing, debating, supporting, transforming etc. strategies; to integrate smartly the learned theories, concepts, terms and definitions from the professional context into the speech.
- • to formulate and express ideas based on the analysis of the facts / concepts / ideas / opinions etc. about fields of historical knowledge in oral and written form; • to integrate smartly the learned theories, concepts, terms and definitions from the professional context into the speech.
Assessment Elements
- Independent assessment
- Oral AssessmentStudents are expected to turn in assignments on the due date. In case of any problems with submitting the assignments, giving presentations etc. on the due date, despite officially proven reasonable excuses, students must inform the instructor about the occurred issue in advance or no later than in 24-hour period after the deadline. If the instructor is informed, assignments (besides listening, group work tasks and the final test) can be accepted after the deadline and presentations can be rescheduled according to the decision of the instructor.
- Written AssessmentStudents are expected to turn in assignments on the due date. In case of any problems with submitting the assignments, giving presentations etc. on the due date, despite officially proven reasonable excuses, students must inform the instructor about the occurred issue in advance or no later than in 24-hour period after the deadline. If the instructor is informed, assignments (besides listening, group work tasks and the final test) can be accepted after the deadline and presentations can be rescheduled according to the decision of the instructor.
- Final Assessment
Interim Assessment
- 2023/2024 2nd module0.3 * Final Assessment + 0.25 * Independent assessment + 0.2 * Oral Assessment + 0.25 * Written Assessment
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Английский язык в проектной деятельности. История : учебник для изучения английского языка как средства решения профессионально ориентированных проектных задач, Чашко, М. М., 2022
- Смольянина, Е. А. Английский язык для историков (B1—B2) : учебник и практикум для вузов / Е. А. Смольянина. — Москва : Издательство Юрайт, 2021. — 286 с. — (Высшее образование). — ISBN 978-5-534-01094-7. — Текст : электронный // Образовательная платформа Юрайт [сайт]. — URL: https://urait.ru/bcode/469620 (дата обращения: 28.08.2023).
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- English for Presentations, английский для презентаций, 84 с., Grussendorf, M., 2007
- Короткина, И. Б. Academic Vocabulary for Social Sciences = Академическая лексика социальных дисциплин [Электронный ресурс] : учеб. пособие/ И.Б. Короткина ; Нац. ис-след. ун-т «Высшая школа экономики». — 2-е изд. (эл.). — Электрон, текстовые дан. (I файл pdf: 305 с). — М.: Изд. дом Высшей школы экономики, 2018. —Систем, требования: Adobe Reader XI либо Adobe Digital Editions 4.5 ; экран 10'. - ISBN 978-5-7598-1486-3. – Текст : электронный. - URL: https://new.znanium.com/catalog/product/1018922 - Текст : электронный. - URL: http://znanium.com/catalog/product/1018922