2024/2025

English for General Academic Purposes. Proficiency Course – 2

Type: Optional course

Delivered by: School of Foreign Languages

When: 3, 4 module

Open to: students of one campus

Language: English

ECTS credits: 5

Contact hours: 80

Course Syllabus

Abstract

"English for General Academic Purposes. Proficiency Course – 2" for the 1st year students is designed to develop foreign-language communicative and integrated and critical thinking skills. The course is based on "Regulations for Interim and Ongoing Assessments of Students at National Research University Higher School of Economics" and "Concept of Development of English-language Communicative Competence of HSE Students". This course is suitable for university students with different academic needs and aims as the academic skills, tasks, and language of this course are common to most disciplines and are relevant to the needs of most students. The course is focused on mastering the core tasks relevant to all tertiary level students, i.e. working out the main points of academic texts, lectures as well as giving talks and participating in debates on the most actual topics: sociology, economics, biology, humanities and environmental engineering. “English for Academic Purposes” is suitable for students from any academic discipline and does not require any special subject knowledge. The course supports both classroom and independent learning. Students should have a B2 level. The students should get not less then 70 points as a result of the Entrance Test to join the course. The course has no blocking assessment.