Competencies and objectives
Course context for academic year 2023-24
- The subject of Inglés I will be imparted in the last year of the undergraduate degree courses of Engineering and Architecture.
- The students are strongly advised to have previous knowledge of the language (A2 or equivalent level according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages).
- Inglés I will necessarily contain solid technical and scientific components linguistically dealt with, which will eventually permit students to tackle oral and written information required in their formal academic and professional training. Specifically, Inglés I seeks to enable students to acquire the abilities and strategies to read and understand oral and written texts of technical and scientific nature.
- Students should be able to know and reasonably apply linguistic and extra-linguistic resources which feature scientific discourse in English in order to effectively address and solve relevant issues in their particular fields.
Course content (verified by ANECA in official undergraduate and Master’s degrees) for academic year 2023-24
Skills/Skills
- CB 1 : Que els estudiants hagen demostrat posseir i comprendre coneixements en una àrea d'estudi que parteix de la base de l'educació secundària general i se sol trobar a un nivell que, si bé es basa en llibres de text avançats, inclou també alguns aspectes que impliquen coneixements procedents de l'avantguarda del seu camp d'estudi.
- CB 2 : Que els estudiants sàpien aplicar els coneixements al seu treball o vocació d'una forma professional i posseïsquen les competències que solen demostrar-se per mitjà de l'elaboració i defensa d'arguments i la resolució de problemes dins de la seua àrea d'estudi.
- CB 3 : Que els estudiants tinguen la capacitat de reunir i interpretar dades rellevants (normalment dins de la seua àrea d'estudi) per a emetre judicis que incloguen una reflexió sobre temes rellevants d'índole social, científica o ètica.
- CB 4 : Que els estudiants puguen transmetre informació, idees, problemes i solucions a un públic especialitzat o no especialitzat.
- CB 5 : Que els estudiants hagen desenvolupat les habilitats d'aprenentatge necessàries per a emprendre estudis posteriors amb un alt grau d'autonomia.
UA Basic Transversal Competences
- CT.6 : Capacitat d'adaptar-se a nous conceptes i mètodes. Capacitat d'aprendre i aplicar, autònomament i interdisciplinària, nous conceptes i mètodes.
Learning outcomes (Training objectives)
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Specific objectives stated by the academic staff for academic year 2023-24
General Objectives
- Acquire and know how to use the language of English for science and technology.
- Develop strategies to identify and analyze the most usual semantic-syntactical structures in oral and written scientific discourse channeled in English.
- Acquire the skills to interpret and apply the language of visuals.
- Acquire and put into practice varying reading speeds to apply them for different reading purposes: skimming, scanning, and so on.
- Know how to take notes and how to summarize oral passages from lectures delivered in English of scientific and technical content
- Acquire strategies for an effective oral communication to address issues pertaining to the world of science and engineering.
- Know how to use ICT effectively enough to develop oral and written communicative activities in the LMS (Moodle)
- Make a repertoire of question-solving techniques available to the students to undertake any challenging activity of scientific and technical nature delivered in English
The lecturers’ specific aims for the subject
- Build up the means to reach the standards for level B1 as established in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.
- Practise oral and written reception and production strategies in the ICT most relevant fields (academic, job market, publicity to name some).
General
Code:
35558
Lecturer responsible:
AMILBURU OSINAGA, ANA MARIA MARGARITA
Credits ECTS:
6,00
Theoretical credits:
2,40
Practical credits:
0,00
Distance-base hours:
3,60
Departments involved
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Dept:
ENGLISH STUDIES
Area: ENGLISH STUDIES
Theoretical credits: 2,4
Practical credits: 0
This Dept. is responsible for the course.
This Dept. is responsible for the final mark record.
Study programmes where this course is taught
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DEGREE IN FUNDAMENTALS OF ARCHITECTURE
Course type: OPTIONAL (Year: 5)