2023/2024
English for Specific Purposes. History - 3
Type:
Optional course
Delivered by:
School of Foreign Languages
When:
1-3 module
Open to:
students of all HSE University campuses
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
3
Contact hours:
52
Course Syllabus
Abstract
This course is designed for the 2nd-year Undergraduate (Bachelor's) students whose major is History or whose interest lies in History both as an academic discipline and as a professional field. The course is offered within the HSE unified “Concept of the Development of English-language Communicative Competence of HSE Students” and adheres to the "Regulations for Interim and Ongoing Assessment of Students at National Research University Higher School of Economics” . “English for Specific Purposes. History-3” continues the courses “English for Specific Purposes. History-1,2” and covers Modules 1-3 of the 2nd-year studies of the Bachelor's students.
Learning Objectives
- The course is aimed at developing BA students’ professional intercultural communicative competence (PICC) that is referred to as the “integrative ability of solving professional tasks with the help of foreign language” . 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 • Understanding academic/ professional presentations which are linguistically complex • Using basic listening techniques (predicting, understanding main ideas and details) • Following extended speech and complex lines of arguments • Note-taking Writing: (can write clear, well-structured texts on a variety of subjects expanding points of view, developing arguments, synthesising and evaluating information, can evaluate different ideas or solutions to a problem): • Summary • Essay: opinion, discussion • Report • E-mail (business correspondence) • CV • Review of a film/book/play Speaking: • Debates (debate on abstract, complex topics) • Monologue:descriptive/informative/reasoning • Presentation (can give reasons in support or against a particular point of view, give the advantages and disadvantages of various opinions).
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Students are expected to develop listening skills: • Understanding dialogues and polylogues on both familiar and unfamiliar topics • Understanding lectures • Understanding academic/ professional presentations which are linguistically complex • Using basic listening techniques (predicting, understanding main ideas and details) • Following extended speech and complex lines of arguments • Note-taking
- Students are expected to develop reading skills: • 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
- Students are expected to produce in speaking: • Debates (debate on abstract, complex topics) • Monologue:descriptive/informative/reasoning • Presentation (can give reasons in support or against a particular point of view, give the advantages and disadvantages of various opinions).
- Students are expected to produce in writing: (can write clear, well-structured texts on a variety of subjects expanding points of view, developing arguments, synthesising and evaluating information, can evaluate different ideas or solutions to a problem): • Summary • Essay: opinion, discussion • Report • E-mail (business correspondence) • CV • Review of a film/book/play
- Students should be prepared: • to talk about History career paths and choices; • to describe the job of a historian in academia and non-historical fields – its challenges and prospects; • 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; • to integrate smartly the learned theories, concepts, terms and definitions from the professional context into the speech.
- Students should be prepared: • to overview and analyse research, educational and applied History projects – their concepts, aims, tasks, sources, structure, methodology, technologies and techniques, information products, etc.; • to design a concept of an educational/research or applied History project;
- • to create information products for presenting and promoting History projects (writing overviews, descriptions, reviews; running poster sessions, making publications etc.); • to show the skills of presenting and speculating when delivering the concept of the History project/project concept and participating in a Q&A session.
Interim Assessment
- 2023/2024 3rd 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
- Academic Vocabulary for Social Sciences. Академическая лексика социальных дисциплин : учеб. пособие, Короткина И.Б., НИУ ВШЭ, 2016
- Porter, D. (2007). Check Your Vocabulary for Academic English : All You Need to Pass Your Exams: Vol. 3rd ed. A&C Black Business Information and Development.