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English, 4 ECTS credits.
/Engelska/
For:
BME
ELE
MSN
SY
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The course is not available for exchange students
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Prel. scheduled
hours: 26
Rec. self-study hours: 81
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Area of Education: Humanities
Main field of studies: Other subjects
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Advancement level
(G1, G2, A): G1
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Aim:
The aim of the course is to help students to reach a level of English which is necessary for successfully completing a masterā?Ts programme. It also provides students with an opportunity to become acquainted with and practise using, some of the standard terminology and structures of academic English.
After completing the course, students are expected to be able to:
- Read, understand and summarise the most important information in a general text or an academic article accurately
- Formulate ideas and opinions in a way which is scientifically and academically appropriate
- Understand and use an appropriate referencing system
- Identify and analyse their own linguistic strengths and weaknesses and develop and apply strategies for increasing grammatical accuracy and extending vocabulary.
- Critically and constructively examine other studentsā?T work and suggest improvements.
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Prerequisites: (valid for students admitted to programmes within which the course is offered)
Students admitted to international masterĀ“s programmess.
Note: Admission requirements for non-programme students usually also include admission requirements for the programme and threshhold requirements for progression within the programme, or corresponding.
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Organisation:
The course will be organised in two general parts. Both parts will require students to prepare work at home and to read and study a number of texts and academic articles.
The first part will consist mainly of lessons during which English is approached on a micro-level. The focus here will be on grammatical accuracy at sentence level and both grammar revision and practice will dominate. The structures that are most commonly found in technical and scientific texts will be stressed. Standard academic terminology and structures will also be addressed.
The second part of the course will take a macro-level approach to language study and students will be expected to produce texts themselves. These texts will then be discussed and subject to peer review and classes will take the form of seminars.
The course runs the entire autumn semester.
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Course contents:
The course will include grammar exercises, vocabulary building work and texts and articles to read and study. Some of these texts will be of a general, scientific and technical nature, while in the second part of the course more programme specific articles can be used.
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Course literature:
To be decided.
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Examination: |
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Written examination
Active participation in seminars. Assignments.
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3 ECTS
1 ECTS
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Course language is English.
Department offering the course: IEI.
Director of Studies: Johan Holtström
Examiner:
Course Syllabus in Swedish
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