English ΙΙ
Rontou Maria
The course aims to further develop students’ general knowledge of English in terms of all language skills and to introduce them to academic discourse through excerpts from books, articles, lectures, and other written and spoken texts of general or academic interest. It also includes analytical presentation, the study and practice of grammatical and syntactic phenomena of advanced difficulty and teaching vocabulary at an advanced level with an emphasis on themes related to the students’ field of studies (Politics, Policy, Democracy, Capitalism, Elections, Opinion Polls, Human Rights, Civil Rights, Left Right, Constitution, Supranationalism, Intergovernmentalism, Imperialism, Globalisation; International law, State, War, Freedom). The educational material used includes module textbooks, PowerPoint presentations, and extensive use of ICT to search for information sources on the internet, multimedia (video lectures, interactive videos, documentaries, etc.), interactive and other self-learning materials available on the internet, related to learning the English language. At the same time, students are asked to write three short essays on topics related to politics, read a literary book for which supporting material is given, and make a presentation on it individually or in groups.
