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Course, academic year 2025/2026
   
English for social work I - L0717
Title: Angličtina pro sociální práci I
Guaranteed by: HTF - Katedra psychosociálních věd a etiky (28-07)
Faculty: Hussite Theological Faculty
Actual: from 2025
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 3
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/2, C [HT]
Extent per academic year: 26 [hours]
Capacity: unknown / unlimited (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Level:  
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
Guarantor: Mgr. MgA. Lenka Strnadová, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): Mgr. MgA. Lenka Strnadová, Ph.D.
Annotation -
This course is designed to develop language skills of students towards flexible use of English both in the realm of everyday life and in the realm of orientation and understanding the texts and debates connected with social work. The course is aimed especially at the field of communication, reading and understanding specialized texts.
Last update: Hrušková Veronika, Ing. (30.09.2025)
Course completion requirements -

Students are required to attend the course regularly (the minimum required student attendance is 80% of the total amount of instruction), one oral presentation per semester (on selected topic, plus suggestions for discussion) and oral exam in the form of a colloquium (on topics discussed during the course).

If the exam/credit requirements include sending paper or electronic documents for assessment by the teacher, they must be delivered no later than 2 working days before the date of completion of study obligations in SIS. For example, if the date for fulfilling study obligations is Sunday, the student will send the documents by email (to the faculty) or upload them to Moodle no later than Wednesday at 11:59 p.m. Materials delivered later will not be assessed, and the student must enroll in the course in the next academic year and fulfill it according to the requirements for the current academic year.

Last update: Hrušková Veronika, Ing. (30.09.2025)
Literature -

Povinná:

MURPHY, Raymond, VINEY, Brigit, CRAVEN, Miles. English Grammar In Use with Answers and CD ROM: A Self-study Reference and Practice Book for Intermediate Students of English. 3rd. ed. Cambridge: Cambridge university press, 2010. 390 s. ISBN 978-3125343368.

Guide to Grammar and Writing [online]. Website sponsored by the Capital Community College Foundation, 2010 [cit. 28.11.2022]. Dostupné z: http://guidetogrammar.org/…ar/

Doporučená:

HUDSON, Barbara, L., MACDONALD, Geraldine, M., Behavioural Social Work. An Introduction. MacMillan, 1986. 289s. ISBN 0333361334, 9780333361337

Last update: Hrušková Veronika, Ing. (30.09.2025)
Requirements to the exam -

Students are required to attend the course regularly (the minimum required student attendance is 80% of the total amount of instruction), one oral presentation per semester (on selected topic, plus suggestions for discussion) and oral exam at the end of semester (on topics discussed during the course).

If the exam/credit requirements include sending paper or electronic documents for assessment by the teacher, they must be delivered no later than 2 working days before the date of completion of study obligations in SIS. For example, if the date for fulfilling study obligations is Sunday, the student will send the documents by email (to the faculty) or upload them to Moodle no later than Wednesday at 11:59 p.m. Materials delivered later will not be assessed, and the student must enroll in the course in the next academic year and fulfill it according to the requirements for the current academic year.

Last update: Hrušková Veronika, Ing. (30.09.2025)
Syllabus -

-          Social and charity organizations in the Czech Republic

-          Selected social and charity organizations abroad

-          Competences of social worker

-          Vocational motivation in social work and its difficulties (demanding enviroment, insufficient financial valuation, possibility of burnout etc.)

-          Essential equipment of social worker in our country today (qualities, competence, experience, motivation etc.)

-          Current challenges we face in social sphere

Last update: Hrušková Veronika, Ing. (30.09.2025)
 
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