Course detail
English for post-graduates
FEKT-DPX-JA6Acad. year: 2025/2026
A course for postgraduate students focused on academic writing and presentation skills. It will also help the students prepare for the examination required for completion of postgraduate study.
Language of instruction
Number of ECTS credits
Mode of study
Guarantor
Department
Offered to foreign students
Entry knowledge
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Exam: written (language test - 40 points; listening - 30 points; reading - 30 points).
Passmark: 50% in each part of the exam.
The content and forms of instruction in the course are specified by a regulation issued by the lecturer responsible for the course and updated for every academic year.
Aims
Skilled language user able to use English for the purposes of his specific profession in electrical engineering. The aim of the course is to enhance students' skills in reading comprehension, writing abstracts, reports and articles, presentation and communication skills.
Note: a one-semester course
Study aids
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
Recommended reading
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme DPA-BTB Doctoral 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
2 year of study, winter semester, elective - Programme DPA-EIT Doctoral 0 year of study, winter semester, elective
- Programme DPA-EKT Doctoral 0 year of study, winter semester, elective
- Programme DPA-KAM Doctoral 0 year of study, winter semester, elective
- Programme DPA-MET Doctoral 0 year of study, winter semester, elective
- Programme DPA-SEE Doctoral 0 year of study, winter semester, elective
- Programme DPA-TEE Doctoral 0 year of study, winter semester, elective
- Programme DPA-TLI Doctoral 0 year of study, winter semester, elective
- Programme DPAD-EEC Doctoral 0 year of study, winter semester, elective
- Programme DPC-BTB Doctoral 1 year of study, winter semester, elective
2 year of study, winter semester, elective - Programme DPC-EKT Doctoral 0 year of study, winter semester, elective
- Programme DPC-IBE Doctoral 0 year of study, winter semester, elective
- Programme DPC-KAM Doctoral 0 year of study, winter semester, elective
- Programme DPC-MET Doctoral 0 year of study, winter semester, elective
- Programme DPC-SEE Doctoral 0 year of study, winter semester, elective
- Programme DPC-TEE Doctoral 0 year of study, winter semester, elective
- Programme DPC-TLI Doctoral 0 year of study, winter semester, elective
Type of course unit
Language exercise
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
- Introduction
- Presentations
- Trends and development
- Academic writing
- Linking
- Objectivity and formality
- Passive
- Hedging
- Articles
- Relative clauses
- Wordorder and emphasis
- Word formation
- Technical and academic vocabulary