2024/2025

English for Specific Purposes. Philology - 1

Type: Optional course

Delivered by: School of Foreign Languages

When: 1, 2 module

Open to: students of one campus

Instructors: Dmitry Tyulin

Language: English

ECTS credits: 3

Contact hours: 48

Course Syllabus

Abstract

This discipline refers to various educational trajectories offered to students of the bachelor's and master's programs in mastering the optional English course in accordance with the Concept for the Development of English-Language Communicative Competence of Students of the Higher School of Economics (https://www.hse.ru/docs/381549301.html.). The aim of this course is to prepare students for the English for Special Purposes program in the second semester of their first year. The course is structured in such a way as to enable students to master a range of linguistic and text-analytical skills necessary for interpreting and discussing literary and secondary literary sources. Students master basic (B2-C1) linguistic, communication, writing, analytical skills, master literary and related vocabulary, and at the end of the semester prepare a presentation on philological topics.