Elective courses in the foreign languages for 3-5 courses
The academic discipline of Foreign Language for Professional Communication (FLPC)
5th–6th semesters, 3th year
Training in the selective course is based on a communicative approach that develops the skills of listening, scanning and skimming, practices dialogues and monologues on general and professional topics, contains topics and tasks of level B2 of CEFRL to acquire lexical and grammar knowledge, comprises tasks to master presentation and report skills. The content of the course is organised in such a way that every lesson contains language practice and develops language skills that are logically united in thematic units and make up a subject matter module for a semester. Every subject matter module comprises video presentations to watch, texts to develop reading skills, topics for presentation and discussion, grammar materials and lexical tasks to gain level B2 of CEFRL, writing tasks, a test and tasks for self-directed assessment. The number of thematic units in a subject matter module depends on the distribution and volume of classroom and self-study hours.
The academic discipline of Academic Foreign Language, Practical course
7th–8th semesters, 4th year
The selective course for professional and practical training is based on a lexical and grammatical approach that unites the learning of general lexical topics, develops strategies for different reading techniques and contains grammar topics and tasks, which correspond to language levels B2–C1 of Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFRL). The course content is organised in such a way that every lesson contains language practice and develops language skills that are logically united into thematic units and form a subject matter module for a semester. Each subject matter module contains texts to develop reading/ listening, vocabulary minimum, grammar materials on topics, writing tasks, a test, materials to develop speech competence, and tasks for self-directed assessment. The number of thematic units in a subject matter module depends on the distribution and volume of classroom and self-study hours.
The academic discipline of Business English (BE) , second (Master) level of higher education
Structurally, the learning materials of the course are organised in modules. They contain two learning modules: module 1 Professional Communication, module 2 Language for Scientific Research. Each module is a logically complete, relatively independent, integral part of the university course, to master the course is to analyze the results of training.