English for special purposes

2023/2024

Academic Year

ENG

Instruction in English

6

ECTS credits

Delivered at:

Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs

Course type:

Compulsory course

When:

1 year, 1-4 module

Instructor

Petrova, Elena

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.

Expected Learning Outcomes

• learn types of policies and politics
• learn the difference between politics and policy
• learn what constitues a state
• learm types of sovereignty
• learn about humanitarian intervention
• learn about how to start a country
• learn about the difference between nationalism and patriotism
• learn types of nationalism and patriotism
• learn about constructive and destructive natures of nationalism
• learn types of political regimes
• learn what is democracy
• learn the history of democracy
• discuss democracy and related concepts
• learn about pluses ansd minuses of democracy
• learn about meanings of government
• learn about branches of government
• learn about the difference between presidential and parliamentary systems
• learn about pluses and minuses of two-party and multi-party systems
• learn about pluses andd minuses of big and small goverments
• learn about e-government
• learn about types of bureaucracy
• learn about characteristics of ideal bureaucracy
• learn about climate change
• learn about two perspectives how to act now (to combat climate change now or let future generations to take responsibility)
• learn about two persepctives on the causes of climate change (anthropogetic or natural)
• learn about global attempts to combat climate change
• learn about energy security (definition, factors, components, stategies)
• learn types of energy
• discuss renewables and non-renewables and compare them
• learn about decarbonization
• learn and discuss causes of conflicts
• learn rules of war
• learn and discuss changes in war and warfare in the 20th and 21st cneturies
• learn types of war
• discuss future of war (robotization)
• discuss the role of humanitarian organizations in armed conflicts
• learn about the Harvard principles of negotiation
• learn about cognitive biases
• learn about differences in cross-cultural negotiation
• learn and discuss what makes a successful negotiator and learn some real-life examples
• learn about types of elections
• learn about campaigning techniques
• learn and discuss the role of AI in political campaigns
• learn about smear campaigns
• learn about opinion polls
• learn about ways of voting (polling procedure)
• learn about ways of commiting electoral fraud
• learn about types of media
• learn about freedom of the press (what it is, types and examples)
• discuss two perspectives on how politicians engage with voters online
• discuss political correctness

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 module
  0.3 * 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 module
  0.3 * 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

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• Challenges and solutions for climate change, Gaast van der, W., 2012
• Energy security : economics, politics, strategies, and implications, , 2010

Authors

• ANDREEVA ELENA IVANOVNA
• PETROVA ELENA YUREVNA