2024/2025

English for Specific Purposes. History of Art - 2

Type: Optional course

Delivered by: School of Foreign Languages

When: 3, 4 module

Open to: students of one campus

Instructors: Marina Chashko

Language: English

ECTS credits: 5

Contact hours: 80

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The discipline refers to the variable educational tracks offered to students of the curricula for bachelor's and master's degree at choice 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. The course “English for Specific Purposes. History of Art-2" continues "English for Specific Purposes. History of Art-1" class and is designed for the 1st year undergraduate (BA) students that study History of Art. The course adheres to the Regulations for Interim and Ongoing Assessments of Students at National Research University Higher School of Economics and the Conception of the development of students’ English communicative competence. The main goal of this course is to develop students’ professional intercultural communicative competence (PICC) that is referred to as the “integrative ability of solving professional tasks with the help of foreign language”. The types of learning activities, methods of instruction and the materials of the course enable to model social and professional context of the future graduates’ career paths in the field of Art and engage students into the process of using English as a tool of solving professional tasks while developing their hard and transferrable skills, cultivating ability to analyze and think critically, work with different types of information autonomously, cooperate with others, set goals, create new products, work on projects and reflect on their own experience. The course supports guided and autonomous learning engaging online/distance learning sources, develops professionally valuable skills and competences and provides tools for undertaking lifelong learning activities. Pre-requisites: • intermediate level of the English language (B2 level / Independent user according to CEFR). According to the HSE unified “Conception of the development of students’ English communicative competence” students should either successfully pass the Placement Test with not lower than B2 level result or possess a Certificate for the appropriate level of one of the international English language tests listed in the Annex 3 to the HSE Conception to be able to take this course.