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English for Historians 2 - KJAZ055
Title: Akademická angličtina pro historiky 2
Guaranteed by: Department of Ecclesiastical History and Literary History (26-KCD)
Faculty: Catholic Theological Faculty
Actual: from 2024
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 4
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unknown / 16 (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences: multilingualism
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
Guarantor: ThLic. Bc. Barbora Šmejdová, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): ThLic. Bc. Barbora Šmejdová, Ph.D.
Co-requisite : KJAZ054
Annotation -
The seminar aims to develop academic skills concerning the themes belonging to Christian history, culture, and art (including the methodology of writing academic theses). Basic reading and communicative skills in English are required.
Last update: Šmejdová Barbora, ThLic. Bc., Ph.D. (17.01.2025)
Aim of the course -

The aim of the course is to introduce the basics of academic English and the methodology of professional reading, oral presentations and academic writing.

During and at the end of the summer term, students should be able to read (understand and analyse) academic texts on specific issues and:
1) orally present their academic topic with all the requisites (structure, context, argumentation, linguistic devices).
2) Academic writing: distinguish between informal and formal style, use linguistic devices that relativise unambiguous statements and know the linguistic types used in academic papers: description, narration, definition, exemplification, classification, comparison and contrast, cause and effect, generalisation, interpretation, paraphrasing + summary, quotation and referencing (...) and actively use different linguistic expressions (for the 3 types of argumentation. and/or/ but)
3) Know and distinguish the structure and requirements of an academic paper: produce a draft of a term paper.
4) discuss the topics relevant for the study programme.
5) Demonstrate listening comprehension

Last update: Šmejdová Barbora, ThLic. Bc., Ph.D. (17.01.2025)
Course completion requirements -
  • Active participation

  • Preparation and submission of the seminar paper proposal

  • Final paper

  • Oral presentation

Last update: Šmejdová Barbora, ThLic. Bc., Ph.D. (17.01.2025)
Literature -

Course texts:

Files for the course KJAZ157 in SIS

 

Supporting literature:

O'DELL, Felicity - MCCARTHY, Michael. Academic Vocabulary in Use. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

JORDAN, R. R.  Academic Writing Course. Study Skills in English. Harlow: Essex, UK, 2006.

MURPHY, Raymond. English Grammar in Use (New Edition). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

MIKULICOVÁ, Mlada. Anglické texty pro teology. Praha: Karolinum, 2002.

Websites:

https://library.diplomatic.ac/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/epdf.pub_academic-vocabulary-in-use-with-answers.pdf

https://dl2.languagecentre.ir/Writing/Academic_Writing_Course%20[www.languagecentre.ir].pdf

http://www.uefap.net/

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/section/1/2/

http://www.thesaurus.com/

http://www.dictionary.com/

Last update: Makovcová Demartini Lenka, ThLic. Mgr., Ph.D. (01.03.2023)
Teaching methods -

Reading, discussion, presentations, and developing language skills at the B2/C1 level.

Last update: Šmejdová Barbora, ThLic. Bc., Ph.D. (17.01.2025)
Requirements to the exam -

Academic essay, 7 standard pages.

Last update: Šmejdová Barbora, ThLic. Bc., Ph.D. (17.01.2025)
Syllabus -

Week 1 

Introduction/ Essay writing skills

Week 2 

Text: ‘St Paul's Cathedral has Risen above its critics for 300 years’

Presentation: The Great Fire of London (1666) in the Historical Context

Week 3

Text: ‘St Paul's Cathedral has Risen above its critics for 300 years’

Presentation: Christopher Wren

Week 4 

Text: The world of Jane Austen

Presentation: 18th-century England

Week 5

Theme: Brontë sisters

Presentation: Chosen novel

Week 6

Text: ‘Millais’s Christ in the House of His Parents

Presentation: Pre-Raphaelite Movement

Week 7

Text: ‘Millais’s Christ in the House of His Parents

Presentation: 19th-century English art

Week 8

Text: Charles Dickens – Introduction to Oliver Twist

Presentation: Victorian England – political context

Week 9

Text: Charles Dickens – Introduction to Oliver Twist

Presentation: Victorian England – social context

Week 10

Text: J.R.R. Tolkien: ‘Leaf by Niggle’

Presentation: Great Britain in World War I

Week 12      

Text: J.R.R. Tolkien: ‘Leaf by Niggle’

Presentation: Great Britain in World War II

 

Last update: Šmejdová Barbora, ThLic. Bc., Ph.D. (17.01.2025)
 
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