Bachelor 2023/2024

Academic Reading 2

Type: Elective course (History)

Area of studies: History

Delivered by: School of History

Where: Faculty of Humanities

When: 5 year, 2 module

Mode of studies: offline

Open to: students of one campus

Instructors: Alexander Golovlev

Language: English

ECTS credits: 4

Contact hours: 20

Course Syllabus

Abstract

Данная дисциплина направлена на совершенствование навыков профессионального чтения и дискуссии на английском языке. Классические и новейшие монографии и статьи, тексты исторических источников разных эпох, литературные произведения и рецензии предлагаются для прочтения студентами и последующего обсуждения. Дисциплина «Академическое чтение» знакомит студентов с навыками чтения академических текстов, а также с методами критического анализа текстов академической направленности.

Learning Objectives

• Развитие и закрепление навыков интерпретации и критического чтения академических текстов
• Закрепление навыков академического чтения и письма

Expected Learning Outcomes

• A student develops their skills in analytical reading individual paradigmatic works.
• Able to think critically and interpret the experience (personal and of other persons), relate to professional and social activities
• A student can critically evaluate and rethink the accumulated experience (one's own and another's), think about professional and social activities.
• - Analyzing, comparing and interpreting information within the subject area, using the appropriate thesaurus and using the formed communication strategies.
• Identifying the main genres of academic historical production and typical challenges of reading and interpreting them
• Students will be able to cross-examine comparable texts in a given genre, identify their strengths and weaknesses, and apply the skills of critical reading to their own academic production
• Identify key features of texts produced within the adjacent disciplines as compared to history
• Develop advanced reading strategies to critically engage with academic output both from historians and non-historians writing on history-related topics

Course Contents

• What Is Academic Reading and Writing: Reflections on Writing Academic Texts
  This section consists of three seminars during which students will work with academic papers, dissemination pieces, websites, and short videos.
• Reading Key Genres of Academic Production: Full-Length Articles, Reviews, Grant-Related Output and Online Materials
• History and Other Disciplines: Peculiarities of Interdisciplinary Texts

Assessment Elements

• Рецензия
• Работа на семинарах
  Активность во время семинарских занятий.
• Экзамен
  Письменное эссе по фрагменту текста исторической направленности.

Interim Assessment

• 2023/2024 2nd module
  0.4 * Работа на семинарах + 0.2 * Рецензия + 0.4 * Экзамен

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• Building academic reading skills : book 1, Zemach, D. E., 2009
• Perspectives : academic reading skills and practice, Rozenberg, M., 2015
• World like puzzle : academic reading skills: student's book, Anokhina-Kapustina, L., 2010

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• Steps to academic reading 5 : between the lines, Zukowski/Faust, J., 2002