2025/2026
Английский язык для специальных целей. Социальные науки - 3
Статус:
Факультатив
Когда читается:
1-3 модуль
Охват аудитории:
для своего кампуса
Преподаватели:
Наумова Екатерина Михайловна
Язык:
английский
Кредиты:
3
Контактные часы:
48
Course Syllabus
Abstract
The "English for Specific Purposes. Social Studies - 3" discipline is designed to equip students with the English language skills necessary for their future educational and professional endeavors. The course is based on the Concept for the Development of Foreign Language Communicative Competence of HSE University Students . It aims to develop cognitive abilities and critical thinking by engaging students with authentic materials, thematic discussions, and project-based independent work on topics central to sociology, political science, and psychology.
To successfully undertake this course, students must have a command of English equivalent to the level of independent language proficiency, corresponding to a score of 70 on the HSE entrance language proficiency test. This prerequisite places the course within the framework for students who have achieved an advanced level of communicative competence, according to the university's internal scale.
Throughout the course various methods of assessment are used: written assessment (reading, listening, grammar and vocabulary tests, and written papers), oral assessment (debates, presentation and monologue) , home assignment (activities that students do at home and in class), and Final Assessment. No blocking assessment elements are included.
Learning Objectives
- Development of productive skills through the production of oral and written output texts within the disciplinary domain of Social Sciences;
- Comprehensive acquisition of competences for academic and professional communication in Social Sciences at the advanced level of communicative proficiency;
- Enhancement of receptive skills through the processing and comprehension of authentic input texts in Social Sciences, including listening and reading;
- Expansion of grammatical structures in use within the context of Social Science discourse;
- Enrichment of active vocabulary and terminological knowledge pertaining to a broad range of topics in Sociology, Political Science, and Psychology;
- Cultivation of cognitive abilities through the systematic engagement with authentic materials in both classroom settings and independent study;
- Advancement of analytical competence for the interpretation, critical evaluation, and synthesis of substantial information volumes in the target language;
- Promotion of socio-cultural awareness commensurate with the prescribed level of communicative competence;
Expected Learning Outcomes
- • Listening: • will improve understanding of dialogues and polylogues on both familiar and unfamiliar topics • will develop understanding of lectures and learning context • will develop skills of using basic listening techniques (predicting, understanding main ideas and details) • will form skills of note-taking
- • Reading: • will develop understanding of articles, reports, straightforward and specialised texts concerned with contemporary problems at the threshold/vantage/effective operational proficiency level • will form an understanding of text structure • will develop skills of using basic reading techniques skimming and scanning (predicting, understanding main ideas, understanding details)
- • Speaking: • will improve strategies of a monologue and discussion dedicated to general, academic and professional topics (responding to questions, emphasizing, discussion strategies) (informative/descriptive/argumentative/persuasive speech) • will enhance Presentation skills (informative/descriptive/argumentative speech)
- • Writing: • will develop the understanding of how to summarize and compress information • will enhance Paragraph-writing strategies (opinion/ discussion essay) • will enhance Review-writing strategies (opinion/ discussion essay)
- • Listening: • will improve understanding of monologues on both familiar and unfamiliar topics • will develop understanding of lectures and learning context • will develop skills of using basic listening techniques (predicting, understanding main ideas and details) • will form skills of note-taking
- • Speaking: • will improve strategies of a monologue dedicated to general, academic and professional topics (informative/descriptive/argumentative/persuasive speech) • will enhance Presentation skills (informative/descriptive/argumentative speech)
- • Reading: • will develop understanding of articles, straightforward and specialised texts concerned with contemporary problems at the threshold/vantage/effective operational proficiency level • will develop skills of using basic reading techniques skimming and scanning (predicting, understanding main ideas, understanding details)
- • Writing: • will enhance Paragraph-writing strategies (opinion/ discussion essay)
- • Listening: • will improve understanding of monologues on social topics • will develop understanding of academic context • will develop skills of using basic listening techniques (predicting, understanding main ideas and details);
- • Reading: • will develop understanding specialised texts concerned with contemporary problems at the threshold/vantage/effective operational proficiency level • will form an understanding of text structure • will develop skills of using basic reading techniques skimming and scanning (predicting, understanding main ideas, understanding details);
- • Speaking: • will improve strategies of a monologue and discussion dedicated to academic and professional topics (responding to questions, emphasizing, discussion strategies) • will enhance Presentation skills (informative/descriptive/argumentative speech);
- • Writing: • will develop the understanding of how to summarize and compress information • will enhance Paragraph-writing strategies;
Assessment Elements
- Classroom Oral Assessment (COA)COA includes a monologue in a format of TED talk and debates.
- Classroom Written Assessment (CWA)CWA includes 6 elements: 3 Vocabulary tests (1 for each module), a reading test, a listening test, and 1 written work (Critical review).
- Home Assignment (HA)HA includes 9 elements: 6 graded written home assignments (2 for each module), which include writing short argumentative paragraphs, and 3 oral presentations (1 for each module) that students prepare in a pair/a small group.
- Final Assessment (FA)The exam consists of 3 parts: Listening (30%), Reading (30%) and Writing (40%) respectively in the total mark for the exam.
Interim Assessment
- 2025/2026 3rd module0.2 * Classroom Oral Assessment (COA) + 0.25 * Home Assignment (HA) + 0.3 * Final Assessment (FA) + 0.25 * Classroom Written Assessment (CWA)
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Academic project presentations. Student's workbook: Презентация научных проектов на английском языке : Учеб. пособие для вузов, Кузьменкова, Ю. Б., 2009
- Academic project presentations. Презентация научных проектов на английском языке : учеб. пособие для студентов ст. курсов и аспирантов, Кузьменкова Ю.Б., 2011
- Academic project presentations. Презентация научных проектов на английском языке : учеб. пособие для студентов ст. курсов и аспирантов, Кузьменкова Ю.Б., 2013
- Downing, A. (2015). English Grammar : A University Course (Vol. Third edition). London: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=929043
- Dugan, C. (2011). Academic Vocabulary : 25 Content-area Lessons. Huntington Beach, CA: Shell Education. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=663234
- Dugan, C. (2011). Academic Vocabulary : 25 Content-area Lessons. Huntington Beach, CA: Shell Education. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=663236
- Revising, Reading and Reasoning for your English Exams, Английская грамматика и лексика в тестах и текстах, 160 с., Кузьменкова, Ю. Б., Жаворонкова, А. Р., Извольская, И. В., 2002
- Английский язык для социологов : учебник и практикум для академического бакалавриата, Кузьменкова, Ю. Б., 2015
- Кузьменкова, Ю. Б. Английский язык для социологов (A2). English for Social Studies : учебник и практикум для вузов / Ю. Б. Кузьменкова, А. Р. Жаворонкова. — Москва : Издательство Юрайт, 2025. — 263 с. — (Высшее образование). — ISBN 978-5-534-19601-6. — Текст : электронный // Образовательная платформа Юрайт [сайт]. — URL: https://urait.ru/bcode/580771 (дата обращения: 14.01.2026).
- Кузьменкова, Ю. Б. Английский язык для специалистов по социальной работе : учебник и практикум для среднего профессионального образования / Ю. Б. Кузьменкова, А. Р. Жаворонкова. — Москва : Издательство Юрайт, 2025. — 263 с. — (Профессиональное образование). — ISBN 978-5-534-19596-5. — Текст : электронный // Образовательная платформа Юрайт [сайт]. — URL: https://urait.ru/bcode/580770 (дата обращения: 14.01.2026).