Competencies and objectives

 

Course context for academic year 2025-26

This module explores and puts into practice the characteristics of academic genres. The purposes is, by creating awareness of the main features of both oral and academic communication, to provide the students with the necessary tools so that they can process the input received and they can themselves disseminate the results of their research. 

 

 

Course competencies (verified by ANECA in official undergraduate and Master’s degrees) for academic year 2025-26

General Competences

  • CG1 : Acquire advanced knowledge in highly specialized scientific and technological research contexts to achieve a detailed and well-founded understanding of theoretical, practical and methodological aspects in one or more fields of study.
  • CG2 : Apply and integrate the knowledge acquired, its understanding, its scientific foundation, as well as related problem solving, to different social spheres and highly specialized multidisciplinary contexts, both of a research and professional nature.
  • CG3 : Evaluate and select the appropriate scientific theory and the precise methodology of their fields of study to formulate judgments based on incomplete or limited information, including, when necessary and pertinent, a reflection on the social or ethical responsibility linked to the proposed solution.
  • CG4 : Being able to predict and control the evolution of complex situations through the development of innovative work methodologies adapted to the specific scientific/research, technological or professional field, generally multidisciplinary, in which the activity is taking place.
  • CG5 : Knowing how to transmit clearly and unambiguously to an audience, specialized or not, the results from scientific and technological research or from the field of the most advanced innovation, as well as the most relevant foundations on which they are based.
  • CG6 : Develop sufficient autonomy to participate in research projects and scientific or technological collaborations in their thematic field, in interdisciplinary contexts and also when a high component of knowledge transfer is involved.
  • CG7 : Being able to take responsibility for their own professional development and specialization in one or more fields of study.

 

Specific Competences

  • CE10 : Critically argue, make judgments and contribute ideas to apply the knowledge acquired to the realization and development of an initial research project (TFM).
  • CE4 : Command of the basic research tools and the different phases of the research work to search for sources and references to carry out own and advanced critical studies within the field of English Studies.
  • CE5 : Being able to propose, structure and develop works in advanced academic English in different oral and written formats, exploring the relevant primary and secondary sources within the field of English Studies.
  • CE7 : Acquire increasing autonomy in the learning process that facilitates the search for resources and information to perform research tasks in the field of English Studies.
  • CE8 : Master and properly use the necessary tools to search for sources and references to carry out research work in the field of English Studies.

 

Basic Competences

  • CB10 : That students possess the learning skills that allow them to continue studying in a way that will be largely self-directed or autonomous.
  • CB6 : Possess and understand knowledge that provides a basis or opportunity to be original in the development and/or application of ideas, often in a research setting.
  • CB7 : That students know how to apply the knowledge acquired and their problem-solving skills in new or little-known environments within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to their area of study.
  • CB8 : That students are able to integrate knowledge and face the complexity of formulating judgments based on information that, being incomplete or limited, includes reflections on the social and ethical responsibilities linked to the application of their knowledge and judgments.
  • CB9 : That students know how to communicate their conclusions and knowledge, and the ultimate reasons that support them to specialized and non-specialized audiences in a clear and unambiguous way.

 

 

 

Learning outcomes (Training objectives)

Identify the rhetorical movements of the different parts of the academic genres studied.
Become familiar with the linguistic aspects that characterize each part.
Become aware of the functions of modes of communication (spoken, written, non-verbal materials, and body language) in oral presentations.
Being able to write a research article and present it.
Identify the main uses and characteristics of writing.
Use writing and reading for inquiry learning and thinking.
  • Identify the rhetorical movements of the different parts of the academic genres studied.
  • Become familiar with the linguistic aspects that characterize each part.
  • Become aware of the functions of modes of communication (spoken, written, non-verbal materials, and body language) in oral presentations.
  • Being able to write a research article and present it.
  • Identify the main uses and characteristics of writing.
  • Use writing and reading in the learning and thinking through of the inquiry.

 

 

Specific objectives stated by the academic staff for academic year 2025-26

* Identify the rhetorical moves in the various parts of the academic genres studied.

* Become familiar with the linguistic issues characterizing each part.

* Become aware of the funcions of the various communication modes (spoken, written, non-verbal materials and body language) in oral presentations.

* Identify the main uses and characteristics of writing. 

* Apply writing and reading to learning and thinking in research.

 

 

General

Code: 48702
Lecturer responsible:
Díaz Sánchez, Isabel
Credits ECTS: 6,00
Theoretical credits: 1,20
Practical credits: 1,20
Distance-base hours: 3,60

Departments involved

  • Dept: English Philology
    Area: ENGLISH STUDIES
    Theoretical credits: 1,2
    Practical credits: 1,2
    This Dept. is responsible for the course.
    This Dept. is responsible for the final mark record.

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