Course detail
Academic Skills
FAST-VYA003Acad. year: 2023/2024
In this course we will, with a primary focus on speaking, cover a variety of topics useful to students and academic workers who need to use English during their studies or work. These topics are outlined in the syllabus below. The general idea is to begin with description of the participants’ studies/academic career, department and research in general, followed by discussing a research project from start to finish, including describing and interpreting results, diagrams and graphs and then move on to stating opinions and supporting them while responding to others in discussions and arguments, and finishing off with brainstorming and criticising ideas, and working with others to solve problems.
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Entry knowledge
- communicate fluently and spontaneously with native speakers, on a regular basis if necessary, in such a way that neither party has trouble making themselves clear or understanding the other,
- use the English language with a good degree of accuracy when dealing with familiar topics and using common grammatical forms.
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Aims
The student who completes BYA12 will have improved their speaking skills in areas relevant to an academic environment, such as discussing diagrams, data and issues, arguing, presenting opinions and solving problems.
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Classification of course in study plans
- Programme BPC-VP Bachelor's 1 year of study, summer semester, elective
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