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Course Syllabus

2023/2024

English for Specific Purposes. Art and Design - 3

Type: Optional course
Delivered by: School of Foreign Languages
When: 1-3 module
Open to: students of one campus
Instructors: Воронцова-Менало Анна Сергеевна, Данилова Елизавета Андреевна, Tatyana Baranova, Alexander Vladimirovich Kalashnikov, Anastasia Kalashnikova, Galina Levitskaya, Sofia Lozovaia
Language: English
ECTS credits: 3
Contact hours: 52

Course Syllabus

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Abstract

The purpose of this course is to develop students’ skills in reading, speaking, and writing in English, as well as writing analytical essays and making presentations in their professional area of art and design, develop their active and passive vocabulary, improve their knowledge of advanced grammar. The course is aimed at Bachelor’s and Master’s students taking various courses in art and design. The course consists of 31 units and includes magazine and research articles in animation, fashion, painting, colour, exterior and interior design, logo and many other themes, which constitute the profession of a designer. Tasks developed specifically for each of the units comprise lead-in exercises, vocabulary development, multiple-choice exercises, completing sentences and summaries, YES, NO, Not Given statements and speaking and writing assignments. These are supplemented by translation and text-editing exercises. Appendix 1 and Appendix 2 give information on opinion essays and contrasting points of view essays, criteria for marking essays and summaries.
Learning Objectives

Learning Objectives

  • The course contributes to the development of an ability to work with information: to find, evaluate and use information from various sources, necessary to solve professional problems 2. The course contributes to the development of an ability to do research in English, to collect and analyse the collected information 3. The course develops an ability to freely communicate, express thoughts orally and in writing, lead a discussion in English 4. The course allows students to organize their activities in the framework of professional tasks.
Expected Learning Outcomes

Expected Learning Outcomes

  • 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
  • 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)
  • 3. Writing: (can write clear, well-structured texts on a variety of subjects expanding points of view, developing arguments, synthesizing and evaluating information, can evaluate different ideas or solutions to a problem): Summary Essay: opinion, discussion Report\ a critical review; CV
  • 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).
Course Contents

Course Contents

  • Defining Animation
  • Discussing Fashion’s Environmental Impacts
  • Paintings
  • Feelings, Emotions, Mood
  • Design for Tranquility and Slow Living
  • Storytelling in Animation
  • Storymaking in Animation
  • Gender Gap and Self-fulfillment
  • Art Disputes
  • Fashion through centuries
  • Beauty in Design
  • Rebranding
  • Designing a Logo
  • Influence of Color
  • Love in Art
  • Digital Animation
  • Traditional Handicraft Imbued with Modernity
  • Designing Games
  • The Dawn of Cinema & Theater
  • Generation Gap and Housing
  • Design show: entertainment or provocation
  • Myths and Legends in the Modern World
  • Researching Privacy
  • Modern Art and Reality
  • Outstanding Cartoon
  • Overcoming obstacles
  • The Joy of Art
  • Understanding Culture
  • Studying Fashion Design
  • Inspiration Is a Guest That Does Not Willingly Visit the Lazy
  • Exploring the Past, Present, & Future of Art
Assessment Elements

Assessment Elements

  • non-blocking Written Assessment
  • non-blocking Oral Assessment
  • non-blocking Independent Work Assessment
  • non-blocking Final Assessment
    Exam structure: 1. Listening (L) Listen to the text and complete the tasks 1-10. max. 10 points 2. Reading (R) Read the text and complete the tasks 1-10. max. 10 points 3. Writing (W) Write a review/report.
Interim Assessment

Interim Assessment

  • 2023/2024 3rd module
    0.3 * Final Assessment + 0.25 * Independent Work Assessment + 0.2 * Oral Assessment + 0.25 * Written Assessment
Bibliography

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

  • English for Specific Purposes: Art and Design (B2-C1) : учебное пособие, , 2021

Recommended Additional Bibliography

  • 1001 paintings of the Louvre : from antiquity to the nineteenth century, , 2005
  • A designer's research manual : succeed in design by knowing your client and what they really need, O'Grady, J. V., 2006

Authors

  • Velikaia ELENA VASILEVNA
  • BARANOVA Tatiana ALEKSANDROVNA