English - Gateway to English Master's C1

This course includes note-taking, discussions, academic writing and presenting a topic on a related field of study focusing on skills such as avoiding plagiarism, ethics, hedging language, and formulating research questions.

Upon finishing this course you will be able to follow lectures in English with little difficulty and summarize the main ideas. You will be sufficiently comfortable with English as to be able to write longer papers and critical essays in English, making use of general argumentation and rhetorical conventions.

Corresponds to C1 of the CER.

C1 level according to the online placement test

This course involves practising study situations (participating in seminars, tutorials, note-taking in lectures), pair-work & group-work in an English-speaking academic environment.

Internet, handouts, online material

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Performance, testing the learning outcomes specified in the module description, is examined by a cumulative portfolio of competence and action-oriented tasks. These include multiple drafts of an argumentative research paper (alternatively: two assignments) to allow students to develop written skills by means of a process of drafting and revising texts (50% total), an oral presentation (including a handout and visual aids 25%), and a final written examination (25%). No aids may be used during the examination.

Where audio or video is recorded, we observe the Basic Data Protection Regulation (DSGVO, Art. 12 -21).