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Academic English

General data

Course ID:	WSM.CSMIR-IRPUB-9
Erasmus code / ISCED:	(unknown) / (unknown)
Course title:	Academic English
Name in Polish:	Academic English
Organizational unit:	Centre for International Studies and Development
Course groups:
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores):	3.00 Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles: the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS; the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h; 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes; weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS; work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load. view allocation of credits
Language:	English

Classes in period "2023/2024 winter semester" (past)

Time span:	2023-10-01 - 2024-01-28	Selected timetable range: weekly course term Navigate to timetable MO TU KON W TH FR
Type of class:	Discussion class, 20 hours, 12 places more information
Coordinators:	Arkadiusz Górnisiewicz
Group instructors:	Arkadiusz Górnisiewicz
Students list:	(inaccessible to you)
Examination:	Course - Grading
Goals of education:	The course aims at introducing students to the vocabulary and forms characteristic of English in academic use.
Learning outcomes of a component:	LO1: Student knows and understands forms and expressions characteristic of English in social sciences LO2: Student can express thoughts on contemporary global issues, especially on the modern civilizational challenges using relevant English vocabulary LO2: Student has knowledge about different styles of academic referencing LO4: Student has team management and leadership skills, can engage in interdisciplinary research or teamwork LO5: Graduate can prepare both individually or in cooperation with others the written reports, can prepare talks or PP presentations using acquired knowledge in political theory
Conditions of gaining credit:	Class participation is mandatory. Class activity/writing assignments – 40%, written final test – 60%.
Learning activities and teaching methods:	active participation in class discussions, final test
ECTS estimate:	Contact hours: Participation in classes – 20 h Student’s own work: Study of the readings – 20 h Preparation for classes – 20 h Exam preparation – 20 h Total: 80 h (3 ECTS)
Syllabus of the course for students commencing study programme from 19/20 academic year or later:	(in Polish) International Relations and Public Diplomacy, studia stacjonarne drugiego stopnia, rok 1
Full description:	Contents: Each workshop will combine instruction, practical exercises (based on Academic Vocabulary in Use – later AVU) and a leading-text discussion. Workshop 1. What is Academic English. Formal and informal expressions. AVU: chapters 1-3. Reading: Jan-Werner Müller, Defending democracy within the EU, “Journal of Democracy”, vol.24, number 2 (2013). Workshop 2. British and American academic vocabulary – comparison. AVU: chapters 4-6. Reading: John Gray, Al-Qaeda and What it Means to be Modern, chapters 1-2, Polity Press, The New Press, New York 2003. Workshop 3. AVU: chapters 6-8. Reading: Ivan Krastev, Utopian Dreams Beyond the Border, IWM Post, 117 (2016). Workshop 4. CMS: Books and Journals. AVU: chapters 13-14. Reading: Francis Fukuyama, The New Identity Politics, eurozine.com (18 April 2019). Workshop 5. CMS: Manuscript preparation. AVU: chapters 24-25. Reading: Leszek Kołakowski, Looking for the Barbarians. The Illusions of Cultural Universalism, in: Modernity on Endless Trial, The University of Chciago Press, Chicago 1990. Workshop 6. CMS: Manuscript editing. AVU: chapters 26-27. Reading: Andrei Pleşu, The anti-European tradition of Europe, eurozone.com (19 February 2018). Workshop 7 CMS: Quotations. AVU: 29,32. Reading: William Scheuerman, Civil Disobedience for an Age of Total Surveillance, “Mittelweg”, 36, 2/2014. Workshop 8 The various styles of academic referencing. CMS: Notes and Bibliography. AVU: 36, 37. Readings: TBA Workshop 9 Making a presentation. AVU: chapters 46, 47, 50. Reading: TBA
Bibliography:	Obligatory literature: A) Michael McCarthy, Felicity O’Dell, Academic Vocabulary in Use, Cambridge University Press first edition: 2008; second edition: 2016 B) The Chicago Manual of Style, 16th edition, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2010, chapters: 1, 2, 10, 14. C) readings specified in the topic section above, made available for each class by the lecturer and distributed through e-learning platforms

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