Бакалавриат
2024/2025
Английский для специальных целей: азиатские исследования
Статус:
Курс обязательный (Востоковедение)
Направление:
58.03.01. Востоковедение и африканистика
Кто читает:
Школа иностранных языков
Где читается:
Факультет мировой экономики и мировой политики
Когда читается:
3-й курс, 1-4 модуль
Формат изучения:
без онлайн-курса
Охват аудитории:
для своего кампуса
Язык:
английский
Кредиты:
4
Course Syllabus
Abstract
ESP for Asian Studies aims at consolidating and expanding students’ English language knowledge and skills for professional and academic cross-cultural communication as well as fostering critical thinking skills (including information awareness), which are formed based on the material topical for Eastern studies major.The content-based course is built around a set of language and critical thinking skills which are developed while studying authentic multimedia texts on a wide range of professionally relevant topics including historical, cultural, religious, socio-economic and political developments of the traditional and modern East. This comprehensive approach focuses on developing ability to interact in English in the context of cross-cultural professional communication as well as acquiring knowledge on topical issues in their specific areas of study. Due to instruction techniques, learning is both practice and learner oriented as students are given ample opportunities to research topics of their individual professional and academic interests and present their findings within the course frame. The course is conducted in English.
Learning Objectives
- o To expand and practice vocabulary in the field of study and grammar for the line of reasoning in presentations and written papers o To develop strategies for selective and critical reading and listening o To provide information in the English Language on the socio-cultural characteristics of the region o To develop and apply critical thinking skills (analytical dimensions) to practical tasks in reading, writing, speaking, and listening in the specific subject area o To practise critical thinking skills for research and professional purposes in their area of study
Expected Learning Outcomes
- - Understand public speaking, including through technical means; - extract implicit information from an oral message of a monological or dialogical nature;
- Able to think critically and interpret the experience (personal and of other persons), relate to professional and social activities
- Able to solve professional problems based on synthesis and analysis
- A student can critically evaluate and rethink the accumulated experience (one's own and another's), think about professional and social activities.
- Articulate sound arguments, recognizing inconsistency, if any and responding to critical questions; using language of persuading
- Find and evaluate sources; categorize information; identify specified features; supplying and using language of evaluation
Course Contents
- Political Studies 1: Foundations of a state
- Political Studies 2: Legislature.
- Political Studies 3: Executive Branch.
- Political Studies 4: Judiciary.
- Political Studies 5: Safeguards of democracy.
- Political Studies 6: Electoral system.
- Political Studies 7: Election Campaign.
- Political Studies 8: Multi-party system.
- Political Studies 9: Fourth Estate.
- ESP for Asian Studies 1 (new)
- ESP for Asian Studies 2
- ESP for Asian Studies 3
- ESP for Asian Studies 4
Assessment Elements
- Class Participation and Homework
- Writing a factual paragraph
- Quiz 1
- Comment on a quote
- Class Participation and Homework
- Quiz 2
- A persuasive talk
- Writing an Outline
- Class participation and Homework
- Website Information Analysis
- Quiz 3
- Participation and Homework
- Quiz 4
- Presentation of News
- Module Control
- Exam Presentation
- Presentation on Cultural Differences in Business Communication
- Reaction on Research Paper
- Exam (M4) - reaction essay
- Module Control 2nd sem - Annotated Biblio
Interim Assessment
- 2024/2025 2nd module0.05 * A persuasive talk + 0.05 * Class Participation and Homework + 0.05 * Class Participation and Homework + 0.05 * Comment on a quote + 0.4 * Exam Presentation + 0.2 * Module Control + 0.05 * Quiz 1 + 0.05 * Quiz 2 + 0.05 * Writing a factual paragraph + 0.05 * Writing an Outline
- 2024/2025 4th module0.05 * Class participation and Homework + 0.4 * Exam (M4) - reaction essay + 0.02 * Module Control 2nd sem - Annotated Biblio + 0.05 * Participation and Homework + 0.02 * Presentation of News + 0.3 * Presentation on Cultural Differences in Business Communication + 0.05 * Quiz 3 + 0.05 * Quiz 4 + 0.01 * Reaction on Research Paper + 0.05 * Website Information Analysis
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Advancing East Asian regionalism, , 2009
- Arts of Southeast Asia, Kerlogue, F., 2004
- Asia and Europe in the new global system : intercultural cooperation and competition scenarios, , 2003
- Business Model Canvas Fashion Busana Muslim Di Jakarta. (2019). Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.E555DAC1
- Dallmayr, F. (2002). "Asian Values " and Global Human Rights. Philosophy East & West, 52(2), 173. https://doi.org/10.1353/pew.2002.0025
- Japanese history : new dimensions of approach and understanding, Hall, J.W., 1968
- Kawamura, Y. (2012). Fashioning Japanese Subcultures. Berg Publishers.
- Made in China : what western managers can learn from trailblazing Chinese entrepreneurs, Sull, D. N., 2005
- Melissa Zimdars, & Kembrew McLeod. (2020). Fake News : Understanding Media and Misinformation in the Digital Age. The MIT Press.
- Oxford grammar for EAP : english grammar and practice for academic purposes with answers, Paterson, K., 2013
- Pun, N. (DE-588)133529932, (DE-576)299910393. (2005). Made in China : women factory workers in a global workplace / Pun Ngai. Durham, NC [u.a.]: Duke University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edswao&AN=edswao.119489996
- Slade, T. (2009). Japanese Fashion : A Cultural History (Vol. English ed). Oxford: Berg. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=364736
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- British Asian style : fashion & textiles/past & present, , 2010
- Political frontiers, ethnis boundaries, and human geographies in Chinese history, , 2010
- Remade in China : foreign investors and institutional change in China, Wilson, S., 2009