Universität Wien

120042 UE English in a Professional Context - Advanced = Topic Related Course 125 (2010W)

World of Work II

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik
Continuous assessment of course work

Mini-conference Saturday 15th January, 2011

Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 24 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Friday 15.10. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Friday 22.10. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Friday 29.10. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Friday 05.11. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Friday 12.11. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Friday 19.11. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Friday 26.11. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Friday 03.12. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Friday 10.12. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Friday 17.12. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Friday 14.01. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Friday 21.01. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Friday 28.01. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

EPCO Advanced builds on the skills acquired in EPCO and aims to further enable students to cope with texts that belong to highly specialised professional genres. As such, the course is strongly process-oriented, focussing on the development of transferable generic skills applicable to a range of different genres, and not exclusively product-oriented.
These skills will be practised in connection with content information of one specific professional domain, e.g. business, technology, law. The topic (or professional domain) mainly serves as carrier content through which to develop the three main skill areas worked on in EPCO:
Function (Discourse): identifying key text types and their functions and placing them in their context of use, establishing links between text types
Language (Text): identifying characteristic features of such texts and genre conventions (moves and lexico-grammar)
Content (Topic): familiarising learners with the procedures and conventions of the specific professional domain, its key concepts and terms.

The course consists of two main components:
A. In the first half of the course the lecturer introduces the students to a professional field (topic) of her choice using the methodology outlined for EPCO.
B. The second half of the course is dedicated to a student project, the results of which are presented in a mini-conference at the end of the semester and a written project report

Assessment and permitted materials

written assignments, active class participation, and "students' own project,
the results of which are presented in a mini-conference on Saturday January 15th, 2011

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

EPCO Advanced aims to give students chance to put the skills they have worked on so far throughout the language competence programme into practice.
Very generally, the course aims to:
Identify the features that characterise texts and that help realise their communicative purposes
Explain language choices in term of social, cultural, and institutional contexts
Examine the understandings of those who write/read the genres and how the genre relates to users' activities

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Examination topics

interactive lecture course supported by e-learning platform

Reading list

Association in the course directory

Studium: Diplom 343, UF 344, ME 812, MA 844;
Code/Modul: 125, ME2, MA2;
Lehrinhalt: 12-0296

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