English ΙΙ
Rontou Maria
The course includes further development of the general knowledge of English in terms of all skills and student’s first contact with academic discourse through excerpts from books, articles, lectures, and other written and oral texts of general or academic interest, analytical presentation, and teaching of grammatical and syntactic phenomena of advanced difficulty and practising them 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, Globalization; International law, State, War, Freedom). The educational material used includes the 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, and which are related to learning the English language. At the same time, the students are asked to read a literary book for which supporting material is given and make a presentation on it individually or in groups.