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Course, academic year 2019/2020
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English for Historians 2 - KJAZ055
Title: Odborná angličtina pro historiky 2
Guaranteed by: Department of Ecclesiastical History and Literary History (26-KCD)
Faculty: Catholic Theological Faculty
Actual: from 2019 to 2020
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 4
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unknown / unlimited (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
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: ThLic. Bc. Barbora Šmejdová, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): ThLic. Bc. Barbora Šmejdová, Ph.D.
Co-requisite : KJAZ054
Annotation -
Last update: ThLic. Mgr. Lenka Makovcová Demartini, Ph.D. (23.01.2024)
The seminar aims to develop academic skills concerning the themes belonging to Christian history, culture, and art (including the methodology of writing academic theses). Basic reading and communicative skills in English are required.

ATTENTION! For the academic year 2023/24: the syllabus, teaching materials, and course requirements are identical to the course Academic English KJAZ157 (all necessary information and files for KJAZ157 2 are included in SIS), THE DEFAULT PLATFORM FOR ASSIGNMENTS, DEADLINE SUBMISSIONS AND COMMUNICATION IS GOOGLE CLASSROOM!!!

For KJAZ055 2, continuous submissions of the materials and submission of the seminar thesis project are conditions for admission to the final examination. An oral presentation is not a requirement (this is replaced by a final exam).
Literature -
Last update: ThLic. Mgr. Lenka Makovcová Demartini, Ph.D. (01.03.2023)

Course texts:

Files for the course KJAZ157 in SIS

 

Supporting literature:

O'DELL, Felicity - MCCARTHY, Michael. Academic Vocabulary in Use. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

JORDAN, R. R.  Academic Writing Course. Study Skills in English. Harlow: Essex, UK, 2006.

MURPHY, Raymond. English Grammar in Use (New Edition). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

MIKULICOVÁ, Mlada. Anglické texty pro teology. Praha: Karolinum, 2002.

Websites:

https://library.diplomatic.ac/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/epdf.pub_academic-vocabulary-in-use-with-answers.pdf

https://dl2.languagecentre.ir/Writing/Academic_Writing_Course%20[www.languagecentre.ir].pdf

http://www.uefap.net/

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/section/1/2/

http://www.thesaurus.com/

http://www.dictionary.com/

Syllabus - Czech
Last update: ThLic. Mgr. Lenka Makovcová Demartini, Ph.D. (23.01.2024)

POZOR! Pro LS akademického roku 2023/24 je sylabus shodný se sylabem předmětu KJAZ157 !

Alternativně je pro zkoušku možné vybírat také z těchto témat (témata zvýrazněna) nebo je možné navrhnout téma vlastní!

Week 1 

Introduction/ Essay writing skills

Week 2 

Text: ‘St Paul's Cathedral has Risen above its critics for 300 years’

Presentation: The Great Fire of London (1666) in the Historical Context

Week 3

Text: ‘St Paul's Cathedral has Risen above its critics for 300 years’

Presentation: Christopher Wren

Week 4 

Text: ‘St Paul's Cathedral has Risen above its critics for 300 years’

Presentation: The Architecture of St. Paul’s Cathedral, London

Week 5 

Text: from William Blake and his Circle

Presentation: English Romanticism

Week 6 

Text: from William Blake and his Circle

Presentation: The Life of William Blake

Week 7 

Text: from William Blake and his Circle

Presentation: William Blake as a Painter

Week 8 

Text: ‘Millais’s Christ in the House of His Parents

Presentation: Pre-Raphaelite Movement

Week 9

Text: ‘Millais’s Christ in the House of His Parents

Presentation: John Everett Millais

Week 10 

Text: ‘Millais’s Christ in the House of His Parents

Presentation: Close analysis of one Pre-Raphaelite Painting

Week 11 

Text: J.R.R. Tolkien: ‘Leaf by Niggle’

Presentation: English art between the wars

Week 12      

Text: J.R.R. Tolkien: ‘Leaf by Niggle’

Presentation: J. R. R. Tolkien – Life and Work

 

Course completion requirements -
Last update: ThLic. Mgr. Lenka Makovcová Demartini, Ph.D. (23.01.2024)

1) Timely task completion and submission in Google Classroom Workspace (files identical to KJAZ157)

2) The seminar thesis project elaboration and submission (GC and printed version)

3) Final exam

 
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