2024/2025

English for General Academic Purposes. Advanced Course - 2

Type: Optional course

Delivered by: School of Foreign Languages

When: 3, 4 module

Open to: students of one campus

Instructors: Рустамова Юлия Фазилевна, Тавровская Александра Федоровна, Valentina Byvalina, Natalia Mishustina, Tatyana Nurgaleeva

Language: English

ECTS credits: 5

Contact hours: 80

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The programme «English for General Academic Purposes. Advanced Course – 2», designed for the 1st year students, develops foreign-language communicative and integrated and critical thinking skills that are 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 HSE students". The purpose of the course is to consolidate students’ knowledge and awareness of academic discourse, language structures, and lexis. The main focus will be on the development of productive (writing and speaking) and receptive (reading) skills in academic settings.