Postgraduate Integrated Skills in English[3503]

＜授業のねらい及び具体的な達成目標＞

This course will focus on improving your general skills in English, especially your ability to interact and discuss issues and topics in English. We will move quickly each week through different topics. Be prepared to interact and discuss issues and topics.

＜授業計画＞

Date

Sep 9 Course overview
Sep 16 Basic Biochemistry and Science in English
Sep 30 Morals and Ethics
Oct 7 Electric Vehicles and Lithium Ion Batteries
Oct 14 Solar Cells: Science and Technology
Oct 21 Human Relationships
Oct 28 Article Summary and Discussion 1
Nov 4 Philosophical Debates: Abortion and Euthanasia
Nov 11 Genetics, Designer Humans and Cloning
Nov 18 Laboratory Instruments
Nov 25 Experiment and Presentation
Dec 2 Article Summary and Discussion 2
Dec 9 Technical Presentations
Dec 16 Technical Presentations

＜成績評価方法及び水準＞

Online Community 20%
This semester you will need to contribute ten entries to the website http://www.liveinenglish.com
You need to make ten long blog postings and ten shorter comments on somebody else’s blog posting. I will be checking these regularly.

Presentation 20%
You will select a technical or research topic to give a presentation about.

Articles 30% (2x15%)
You will select either a news article or research article in English twice this semester. You will summarize the article for your group and lead a discussion about the article. To do this you will need to prepare an A4 handout for your group members with the article on one side and your summary of and reaction to the article and some discussion questions (see the example sheet) on the other side.

Participation 30%
This is a discussion-based communicative skills class, so your attendance and active participation in all class discussions is necessary.

＜教科書＞

There is no set text for this course.

＜オフィスアワー＞

Hachioji Campus
Wednesday:
3:00-4:30 and 6:00-7:00pm
Thursday:
12:30-1:30
Other times please arrange by email.

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