Through this course, students are introduced to the use of English for Academic Purposes: they learn to recognise and understand the structure and conventions of written and spoken academic English, develop relevant vocabulary, whilst also learning complex syntactic and grammatical structures common to the genre. They are also taught appropriate strategies for approaching, understanding, and analysing scientific articles and excerpts from scientific books related to their field of study, and they practice these strategies. Furthermore, emphasis is placed on teaching the principles of text summarisation, paragraph structure, the linguistic characteristics of academic writing, and bibliographic referencing. Extensive use is made of the Department’s online platform for practising vocabulary and essay writing, as well as the internet and multimedia. At the same time, students are asked to write medium-length essays, read a book, for which supporting material is provided, and to present their work either in groups or individually.