| Course title | Academic English, Intermediate, Examination |
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| Course code | KAL/AASZ |
| Organizational form of instruction | no contact |
| Level of course | Bachelor |
| Year of study | 2 |
| Semester | Winter and summer |
| Number of ECTS credits | 2 |
| Language of instruction | Czech |
| Status of course | Compulsory-optional |
| Form of instruction | Face-to-face |
| Work placements | This is not an internship |
| Recommended optional programme components | None |
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| Course content |
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The student must take the oral exam, for which he/ she will write a 4 page essay on one of the topics discussed during the course. The essay must be submitted (printed version) one week before the exam. Oral exam consists of 3 parts: 1) Monologue/ dialogue related to the student`s field of study 2) Essay mistakes analysis 3) Interpretation of a short academic text
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| Learning activities and teaching methods |
Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Methods of Written Work
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| Learning outcomes |
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Examine the knowledge and abilities acquired during the four-semester course Academic English for Intermediate Students in Humanities.
According to the Common European Framework of Reference, the students who take the AAS course are to reach level B2, that is: can understand the main ideas of a complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in their fields of specialisation; can interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that makes interaction on a given, previously prepared, subject with native speakers quite possible; can explain their critical viewpoint on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options; can take notes of an English subject-related text which they are reading or which is being presented; can also express their own critical thoughts on the given theme; can translate, with the use of a dictionary, a fairly difficult English subject-related text into their native language. |
| Prerequisites |
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The students who do philology and literary theory and criticism, classics, history, philosophy, film and theatre studies, art history, musicology will have studied four semesters of the course Academic English for Intermediate Students in Humanities in order to better understand subject-related texts in English; clearly present the results of their research orally and in written form; learn to approach a subject-related text in English so that they could render an authentic translation of it; learn how to read and to understand correctly subject-related texts in English; learn how to express themselves correctly, clearly, and in an organized way, both in oral and written presentations such as seminar or conference papers, dissertations, a.s.o.
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| Assessment methods and criteria |
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Mark, Oral exam, Written exam, Student performance, Analysis of linguistic, Analysis of Creative works (Music, Pictorial,Literary), Dialog, Systematic Observation of Student, Anamnestic Method
Requirements for the exam 1) The student must sign up for the exam (AASZ) in the electronic system STAG at the very beginning of the last semester of the course, that is they must sign up both for AAS4 and AASZ. 2) The student must have already obtained credits for the four semesters of the course, that is for AAS1-4. |
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| Study plans that include the course |
| Faculty | Study plan (Version) | Category of Branch/Specialization | Recommended semester | |
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| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): The History of Art and the Theory of Art (2017) | Category: Theory and history of arts | 2 | Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Philosophy (2016) | Category: Philosophy, theology | 2 | Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Czech Philology (2015) | Category: Philological sciences | 2 | Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Psychology (2015) | Category: Psychology courses | 2 | Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Musicology (2017) | Category: Theory and history of arts | 2 | Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Sociology (2016) | Category: Social sciences | 2 | Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Andragogy (2016) | Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care | 2 | Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Practical Dutch Philology (2015) | Category: Philological sciences | 2 | Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Archeology (2015) | Category: History courses | 2 | Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Korean for Business (2015) | Category: Philological sciences | 2 | Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer |
| Faculty: Faculty of Arts | Study plan (Version): Politics and European Studies (2015) | Category: Social sciences | 2 | Recommended year of study:2, Recommended semester: Summer |