Improve your writing and presentation skills

General data

Course ID:	3102-FIWP
Erasmus code / ISCED:	14.7 Kod klasyfikacyjny przedmiotu składa się z trzech do pięciu cyfr, przy czym trzy pierwsze oznaczają klasyfikację dziedziny wg. Listy kodów dziedzin obowiązującej w programie Socrates/Erasmus, czwarta (dotąd na ogół 0) – ewentualne uszczegółowienie informacji o dyscyplinie, piąta – stopień zaawansowania przedmiotu ustalony na podstawie roku studiów, dla którego przedmiot jest przeznaczony. / (0314) Sociology and cultural studies The ISCED (International Standard Classification of Education) code has been designed by UNESCO.
Course title:	Improve your writing and presentation skills
Name in Polish:	Improve your writing and presentation skills
Organizational unit:	Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology
Course groups:	(in Polish) Moduł L4: Antropologia słowa i literatury Courses in foreign languages
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores):	(not available) Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles: the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS; the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h; 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes; weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS; work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load. view allocation of credits
Language:	English
Type of course:	optional courses
Short description:	The aim of this class is to provide students with skills that will help them better communicate their ideas both on paper and in speaking.
Full description:	We will start from working on presentation skills. Through active participation in in-class exercises students will work on speaking and evaluating other's speeches. Clarity of thought, presentation structure and body language will be our main focus. In the second part of our course we will work on academic writing. Tips from acknowledged authors who have helped to improve the writing of people from around the world will be provided to help students better understand the academic writing process. We will focus on text structure, paragraph division and vocabulary. We will also have a closer look at different writing styles used in various anthropological journals. Students will be encouraged to present their ideas within the realm of anthropology, however students from other backgrounds are also invited to participate.
Learning outcomes:	(in Polish) Po ukończeniu zajęć studenci potrafią: - analitycznie myśleć i dokonywać obserwacji i krytyki przemian społeczno-kulturowych - posługiwać się wybranym językiem obcym na poziomie B2+ Europejskiego Systemu Opisu Kształcenia Językowego - posługiwać się specjalistyczną terminologią z zakresu etnologii i antropologii kulturowej w języku obcym
Assessment methods and assessment criteria:	Active participation in the class, in-class writing and presenting

This course is not currently offered.

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