Course detail

Academic Presentation Skills - Winter

FaVU-2APS-ZAcad. year: 2011/2012

This course is intended for students of the MA cycle at an intermediate level of English and aims at improving and cultivating their speaking skills. The course is not a continuation of the Basic Presentation Skilss course. However, the content is similar: students will present papers about their current artistic projects and importatn artists who inspire them at their work. They will also discuss and present other topics assigned by the course teacher - a NAVITVE SPEAKER - during the semester.

Language of instruction

English

Number of ECTS credits

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Mgr. et MgA. Barbora Lungová

Department

Department of Art History and Theory (KTDU)

Offered to foreign students

Of all faculties

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Two oral presentations per semester, essay.

Prerequisites

Students should be already at an intermediate level of English, but they do not have to be fluent or confident in spoken English. On the contrary: the course has been designed especially for such students.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations..

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Two oral presentations per semester, essay.

Course curriculum

students will present papers about their current artistic projects and importatn artists who inspire them at their work. They will also discuss and present other topics assigned by the course teacher - a NAVITVE SPEAKER - during the semester.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

This course aims at cultivating the participants' spoken English, which entails a number of problems: authenticity of vocabulary, the chosice of the correct registers (slang or formal) and recognizing of the appropriate situation in which to use them, learning how to logically build a spoken presentation, learning ceherence, cohesiveness, and widening both general and discipline-specific vocabulary.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Two absences per semester are allowed.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Art in America
Artforum
ArtPress
Freeze
Modern Painters
Parkett

Type of course unit

Seminar

52 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Mgr. et MgA. Barbora Lungová

VUT

Faculties

University Institutes

Parts

Academic Presentation Skills - Winter

Type of course unit