2025/2026
English for General Academic Purposes. Advanced Course - 1
Type:
Optional course
Delivered by:
School of Foreign Languages
When:
1, 2 module
Open to:
students of one campus
Language:
English
Course Syllabus
Abstract
«English for Academic Purposes. Advanced–1» course is designed for first-year HSE undergraduates to foster their understanding and using specialized academic discourses for tertiary education and research at an advanced level. In compliance with "Concept of Development of English-language Communicative Competence of HSE Students" and "Regulations for Interim and Ongoing Assessments of Students at National Research University Higher School of Economics", the course aims at developing English-language communicative, integrated, critical and creative thinking competences. Specifically, the course is targeted at building students’ core receptive and productive knowledge and skills belonging to the academic domain at B2+, which is expedient for annotating, extracting key information, paraphrasing, summarizing, integrating, and presenting coherent and cohesive oral (monologue, group discussion, presentation) and written texts (e-mail, summary). Essentially, the course comprises multiple texts and tasks employed in mainstream academic environments and practices. To be admitted to the course, students must have at least 60 points on the entry test. To successfully master the programme materials, the course provides for independent work on the online platform SMART LMS. Throughout the course various methods of assessment are used: written assessment (reading, listening, grammar and vocabulary tests, and written papers), oral assessment, independent work assessment (activities that students do at home and in class), and final assessment. There are no blocking controls.