Course detail

English Upper Intermediate Higher 3 - BA - Winter

FaVU-1UPPV-ZAcad. year: 2023/2024

The course is a follow-up (not obligatory) of English B1 Higher. Life Upper-Intermediate (7-9) represents the core material worked with in the classes, however, nearly every second class, students will reflect the reading assigment (chapters, segment) both in a written and an oral form (group discussions).

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)

Entry knowledge

Prior B1 or placement test.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Assessment consists of a non-letter grade and a letter grade.
The workload during the semester will constist of one presentation, a reading of a novel (divided into 2-week long segments od 50 pages each), a written and spoken online, real-time reflection of the assigned segment every second week, and two short (up to 450 word-long) essays as homework.
In order to obtain the non-letter grade, students have to submit all assignments during the semester.
For the final, letter grade, students have to write a final essay (in real time, online), which will reflect the assigned reading. (Min. 50% to pass)
Students who will not have handed in the written assignments (even though they passed the final test) will not be assessed.
Students are entitled for one regular and two resit exam dates.
Students must actively participate in 75% of the classes, including their online form.

Aims

Continuous vocabulary building, improving of writing, speaking, listening, and reading skills, improving the academic reading skills, preparation for the final general test on the B2 level at the end of the semester.
Students will be improving their writing skills (essays, project proposals, reviews, artists statement, press release, etc) and their reading skills (both fiction and non-fiction). They will be improving their analytical thinking and the skills to reflect their thoughts both in spoken and written form.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Dokumentární filmy z kolekce Promítej i ty (EN)
e-flux, Mousse, Flash Art, and other art magazines (EN)
Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake (EN)
The Guardian (EN)

Type of course unit

Seminar

52 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Mgr. et MgA. Barbora Lungová

Syllabus

Life Upper-Intermediate units 7-9 and various texts taken from art magazines and academic books on art theory or history.