Bachelor
2023/2024
English for special purposes
Category 'Best Course for Career Development'
Category 'Best Course for Broadening Horizons and Diversity of Knowledge and Skills'
Type:
Compulsory course
Area of studies:
International Relations
Delivered by:
Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs
When:
1 year, 1-4 module
Mode of studies:
offline
Open to:
students of one campus
Instructors:
Elena Petrova
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
6
Contact hours:
112
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.
Assessment Elements
- Quizzes
- Speaking card M1
- Speaking Card M2
- Participation M1-2
- Module 1 Test
- Exam
- Presentation
- Opinion Essay
- in-class summary+opinion essay
- Speaking card M3
- Speaking card M4
- Pariticipation M3-4
- Module test M2
- Module test M3
- Module test M4
- Exam
Interim Assessment
- 2023/2024 2nd module0.3 * Exam + 0.2 * Module 1 Test + 0.1 * Module test M2 + 0.1 * Opinion Essay + 0.05 * Participation M1-2 + 0.05 * Presentation + 0.1 * Quizzes + 0.05 * Speaking Card M2 + 0.05 * Speaking card M1
- 2023/2024 4th module0.3 * Exam + 0.2 * Module test M3 + 0.1 * Module test M4 + 0.1 * Pariticipation M3-4 + 0.1 * Quizzes + 0.05 * Speaking card M3 + 0.05 * Speaking card M4 + 0.1 * in-class summary+opinion essay
