English for Specific Purposes aims at shaping the communicative and professional competence in English which implies an ability to interact in English in the context of cross-cultural professional communication. Language skills are developed when studying authentic texts on political issues. Learning is practice-oriented.
Learning Objectives
- to broaden and expand the students’ proficiency and knowledge of English;
- to develop the students’ listening skills to enable them to understand and to use the information from the input;
- to develop the students’ reading skills for the gist and detailed information, to make inferences and deduce the meanings from the context;
- to develop the students’ speaking skills to enable them to produce a structured talk on the issue in question.
Expected Learning Outcomes
learn types of policies and politics
learn the difference between politics and policy
learn what constitues a state
learm types of sovereignty
learn about humanitarian intervention
learn about how to start a country
learn about the difference between nationalism and patriotism
learn types of nationalism and patriotism
learn about constructive and destructive natures of nationalism
learn types of political regimes
learn what is democracy
learn the history of democracy
discuss democracy and related concepts
learn about pluses ansd minuses of democracy
learn about meanings of government
learn about branches of government
learn about the difference between presidential and parliamentary systems
learn about pluses and minuses of two-party and multi-party systems
learn about pluses andd minuses of big and small goverments
learn about e-government
learn about types of bureaucracy
learn about characteristics of ideal bureaucracy
learn about climate change
learn about two perspectives how to act now (to combat climate change now or let future generations to take responsibility)
learn about two persepctives on the causes of climate change (anthropogetic or natural)
learn about global attempts to combat climate change
learn about energy security (definition, factors, components, stategies)
learn types of energy
discuss renewables and non-renewables and compare them
learn about decarbonization
learn and discuss causes of conflicts
learn rules of war
learn and discuss changes in war and warfare in the 20th and 21st cneturies
learn types of war
discuss future of war (robotization)
discuss the role of humanitarian organizations in armed conflicts
learn about the Harvard principles of negotiation
learn about cognitive biases
learn about differences in cross-cultural negotiation
learn and discuss what makes a successful negotiator and learn some real-life examples
learn about types of elections
learn about campaigning techniques
learn and discuss the role of AI in political campaigns
learn about smear campaigns
learn about opinion polls
learn about ways of voting (polling procedure)
learn about ways of commiting electoral fraud
learn about types of media
learn about freedom of the press (what it is, types and examples)
discuss two perspectives on how politicians engage with voters online
discuss political correctness
Course Contents
Unit 1 Politics vs. Policy
Unit 2 State, Statehood and Sovereignty (new)
Unit 3 Nationalism
Unit 4 Political Regimes (new)
Unit 5 Government (new)
Unit 6 Bureaucracy (new)
Unit 7 Climate Change and Its Political Dimension (new)
Преподаватели
Андреева Елена Ивановна
Петрова Елена Юрьевна
Сафонова Мария Александровна
Тарев Борис Владимирович
Course Syllabus
Abstract
Learning Objectives
Expected Learning Outcomes
Course Contents
Assessment Elements
Interim Assessment
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
Recommended Additional Bibliography
Authors