KKEN62
ENGLISH WRITTEN SKILLS -BIOTECHNOLOGY
2
ECTS
Organised by
English
Preceding studies
Level A English at upper secondary school, or equivalent skills (B1-B2 level of language competence). To achieve the required starting level, students may for example take an English prep course.
After completing this study module, students will - understand general factual and scientific texts - understand texts of their own field - to some extent be able to produce factual style texts These skills will help students in their studies and later in following their own field and improving professional international communication.
Contents
During this course, students will - read and analyse texts from different fields and become familiar with vocabularies that are universally scientific and essential to the subjects in question, and with the meanings of prefixes and suffixes - examine the structure of academic text and the functions of its parts, the clue words indicating the semantic relations of a text, and linguistic structures that are essential to understanding texts - use the words in texts and vocabularies in active writing
Further information on prerequisites and recommendations
For students of Biotechnology
Teaching methods
Teaching method
Contact
Online
Tutorials
28 h
0 h
Independent work
26 h
0 h
Modes of study
Evaluation
and evaluation criteria
Numeric 1-5.
Evaluation by written final exam and regular and active participation in exercises.
Recommended year of study
Third year of study
Study materials
Material distributed during the course must be paid for.