2024/2025

English for Specific Purposes. Philology - 2

Type: Optional course

Delivered by: School of Foreign Languages

When: 3, 4 module

Open to: students of one campus

Instructors: Maria A. Krivosheina

Language: English

ECTS credits: 5

Contact hours: 80

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The discipline refers to the variable educational tracks offered to students of the BA and MA degree curricula while mastering the optional course of English in accordance with the Concept of developing English-speaking communicative competence of students of Higher School of Economics — National Research University (https://www.hse.ru/docs/381549301.html). The goal of this course is to help Philology programme students master a range of linguistic and text analysis skills. Students will be introduced to the close reading technique as well as basic linguistic concepts and literary theory in English. The course is structured as a propaedeutic step necessary for students taking further courses in English. Students will read and comment upon 16-20th c. texts of various difficulty levels. At the end of the semester students are supposed to present individual and group projects on text analysis.