Undergraduate Course: Foundation English for Academic Purposes 1 (ENAI07010)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 7 (Year 1 Undergraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | English - Academic (International Students Only) |
Other subject area | None |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | This course is for HSS International Foundation Programme students only. It is not available for undergraduate or postgraduate students. This course will be offered as a part of the HSS International Foundation Programme, intended to provide non-native speaker pre-undergraduate students with the necessary linguistic, cognitive and cultural knowledge/skills to join Year 1 of an undergraduate programme of study in Humanities or Social Science.
Foundation English for Academic Purposes 1 aims to improve the students&© English knowledge and skills to the point where they can participate effectively in undergraduate courses. To that end, the Semester 1 FEAP 1 course will focus on academic reading and writing skills and on extending the students&© knowledge of relevant vocabulary $ú both general academic lexis and the specific/technical terminology of Humanities and Social Science. Academic Reading and Writing sessions will familiarise the students with fundamental structures of academic texts, such as IMRAD (Introduction, Method, Results and Discussion) and SPSE (Situation, Problem, Solution and Evaluation), as well as providing practice in sentence and paragraph construction. Lexical development will be organised in separate strands (Key Vocabulary for Philosophy and Key Vocabulary for Social Science), which will be based on the reading and listening input provided in the Philosophy and Social Science session 1 Foundation Programme courses.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2011/12 Semester 1, Available to all students (SV1)
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WebCT enabled: Yes |
Quota: 0 |
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| First Class |
Week 2, Monday, 09:00 - 10:50, Zone: Central. The class will meet at ELTC, 21 Hill Place. The number of the room will be shown on the ground floor board. |
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Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
By the end of FEAP 1 students should be able to:
Understand and use the specialist vocabulary featured in their session one courses in Philosophy and Social Science;
Analyse the macrostructure of academic reading texts;
Follow and discuss the arguments used by academic writers;
Write sufficiently accurate English to be understood by an academic reader. |
Assessment Information
This course will be assessed by two components.
1. $ùUnseen&© test of Philosophy and Social Science vocabulary (multiple-choice and gap-fill) $ú weighted at 50%.
2. $ùSeen&© written assignment: a 1,000-word essay with an SPSE structure $ú weighted at 50%.
To pass, students must achieve a minimum of 40% in the combined mark (and a minimum of 30% in each assessment component).
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Special Arrangements
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Additional Information
| Academic description |
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| Transferable skills |
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| Reading list |
HSS FEAP students will have individual access to the electronic Academic Content dictionary (item 1) in the ELTC computer lab and will be issued with their own copies of item 2.
1. Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary (2011) Cambridge University Press. Available to students in ELTC Student Lab.
2. Hamp-Lyons L & Heasley B. (2008) Study Writing: a course in writing skills for academic purposes. Second edition. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521534-96-3. Students will receive own copy.
In addition, they will receive copies of the FEAP materials (Key Vocabulary for Philosophy; Key Vocabulary for Social Science) being prepared by ELTC staff.
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| Study Abroad |
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| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr John Palfery
Tel: (0131 6)50 6200
Email: j.palfery@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Anthea Coleman-Chan
Tel: (0131 6)51 1589
Email: Anthea.Coleman-Chan@ed.ac.uk |
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