.
Dental Terminology in English
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:4.00
Study Course Accepted:02.02.2024 12:31:08
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | VC_101 | LQF level: | Level 5 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Linguistics | Target Audience: | Dentistry | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Tatjana Zakutajeva | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf rsu[pnkts]lv | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 0 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 0 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 0 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 16 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 32 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 32 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Knowledge of the English language at secondary school level. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To develop students’ communication skills for use in academic and professional settings and to facilitate the acquisition of professional terminology for productive use. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Introduction to the course. Effective communication. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Medical breakthroughs. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Human body: organs and systems. Test. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | In and around the hospital. The hospital team. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Signs and symptoms. Pain assessment scales and pain management. Test. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | History of dentistry and dental specialities. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Preventive dentistry. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | Human dentition. Test. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 9 | Dental unit and basic dental instruments. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 10 | Cross infection control in the dental practice and professional disease prevention. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 11 | Dentist - patient Interaction: communication in the dental practice. Managing dental fear. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 12 | Dental caries. Terminology acquisition on xerostomia and halitosis. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Individual and pair work – preparing presentations on one of the course topics, work with monolingual dictionaries – explaining terms; writing summaries, and e-mails according to the given principles. Students are obliged to fill in the course evaluation questionnaire at the end of the course. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | • Active participation in classes; written homework – qualitative, submitted in due time, the quality of oral answers; • Presentations on the topics of the course; • Tests – checking terminology acquisition and its practical application; • At the end of the course – Written Exam– checking knowledge and practical application of terminology, general comprehension and understanding of specific information, and the language use. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | On successful completion of the course, students will be able to: • recognize professional terminology in different types of texts; • recall professional terminology related to the field of dental hygiene; • describe different phenomena in the field of dental hygiene using professional terminology in English. | ||||||||
| Skills: | On successful completion of the course, the students will be able to: • select and use appropriate terminology in English to speak and write (summaries, e-mails, memos) on the topics related to the field of oral hygiene; • use appropriate language devices to communicate their ideas both in written and spoken language; • summarize the information from any kind of source in written and spoken language using relevant terminology in English; • retell the general idea and specific information in different kinds of texts from varied types of sources. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | On successful completion of the course, students will be able to apply practically the acquired terminology in studies. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | K.Studzińska-Pasieka, M. Otto. Open Your English Wider. Poland: Bestom-Dentonet.pl. 2011. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| 2 | E. Martin. Oxford Concise Medical Dictionary. Oxford: Oxford University press, 2007. (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Medicine. Sam McCarter. Oxford University Press, 2009-2010. | ||||||||
| 2 | Nursing. Tony Grice. Oxford University Press, 2007-2008. | ||||||||
| 3 | Professional English in Use. Medicine. Eric H. Glendinning, Ron Howard. Cambridge University Press, 2007. | ||||||||
| 4 | Easwood, J. Oxford Practice Grammar. Intermediate. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/sections/dentistry/ | ||||||||
| 2 | www.dentistry.co.uk/ | ||||||||
| 3 | www.oup.com/elt | ||||||||
