English in Psychology for Students and Practitioners I

A good command of English has become indispensable to students, researchers and practitioners in psychology. In addition to reading and listening tasks that develop your receptive skills, the course includes written and oral exercises such as summaries, discussions and short presentations that develop your productive competencies.

The course acquaints you with reading techniques and the language of written English (special terminology and common phrases) to enhance your understanding of complex academic publications on a range of psychology topics. Listening exercises familiarize you with various presentation styles and accents to develop your capacity to extract and understand crucial information. And you develop confidence, fluency and accuracy in discussing, presenting and writing.

You are encouraged to work on your own materials and topics that interest you and will receive additional support according to your individual needs.

The following dates will be taught online: 4 October, 18 October, 8 November, 6 December and 20 December

This course is offered in the fall semester only.

Course information

Course level
C1
24 Lessons
Lecturer
Sandra Senti, Dr.
Credit points
2 ECTS
Registration deadline
Thursday 19.09.2024
Course fee
Students and PhD candidates: CHF 315.00
Members of staff: CHF 579.00
Alumni: CHF 579.00
Alumni FHNW: CHF 579.00

Course materials

The course materials will be provided by the instructor.

Requirements

To earn credit points, participants are expected to

  • not be absent more than once,
  • participate actively in class,
  • submit two satisfactory texts of at least 300 words (if a text is unsatisfactory, it may be resubmitted once),
  • prepare an oral presentation based on an article (20-30 min. including class discussion plus a handout).

Workload for ECTS:
In addition to class time, participants must plan to spend 3 hours per week on preparing and reviewing for class and on autonomous learning.

You can earn 2 credit points.
The course is graded with either pass or fail.

Certificate of attendance

Active participation is assumed. In order to receive a certificate of attendance for this course, you are not allowed to be absent more than once.

Placement test

A placement test is required for this course. You are only allowed to participate and earn credit points if your level is not significantly higher than the level of the course. In borderline cases, the head of the respective language program will decide whether it is possible to participate with or without credit points based on an oral examination.

Replacement date

The supplementary replacement date for lessons that might not take place is: 07.12.2024 from 10:00 - 16:00.

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