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About Study Course

ECTS:6
Course supervisor:Sniedze Vilde
Course level:Bachelor
Target audience:Communication Science
Branch of science:Linguistics

Objective

To develop students’ communication skills for use in academic and professional settings and to facilitate the acquisition of professional terminology for productive use.

Prerequisites

Knowledge of the English language at secondary school level.

Learning outcomes

Knowledge

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:
• recognise professional terminology in different types of texts;
• recall professional terminology related to the field of journalism;
• describe different phenomena in the field of journalism using professional terminology in English.

Skills

Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to:
• select and use appropriate terminology in English to speak (presentations) and write (reviews, newspaper and magazine articles, news reports) on the topics related to the field of journalism;
• use appropriate language devices to communicate their ideas both in written and spoken language;
• summarise 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.

Competence

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to practically apply the acquired terminology.

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