2025/2026

English for General Academic Purposes. Upper-Intermediate Course - 2

Type: Optional course

Delivered by: School of Foreign Languages

When: 3, 4 module

Open to: students of one campus

Instructors: Anastasia Zizina

Language: English

Course Syllabus

Abstract

«English for General Academic Purposes. Upper-Intermediate–2» course is designed for the first-year HSE undergraduates to consistently build their understanding and use of specialized academic discourses for tertiary education and research as well as intercultural communication at a B2+ level. In compliance with “Concept of Development of Foreign-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, and digital literacy. Specifically, the course is targeted at building students’ core receptive (reading and listening) and productive (writing and speaking) knowledge and skills belonging to the academic domain at B2+ (CEFR). This allows to extract and process key information for further integrating multiple source materials and presenting coherent and cohesive analytical oral (monologue, group discussion, presentation) and written (‘opinion’ and ‘advantages and disadvantages’ essays) texts. Essentially, the course comprises multiple texts and tasks employed in mainstream academic environments and practices. To successfully master the programme materials, the course provides for independent work on the online platform SMART LMS. There are no blocking controls.