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Luiss Academic English Course Department of Political Science 3-Year Undergraduate Degree Programme Academic Year 2016/2017 Course Prof: C. Eade [email protected]

All students in the 3-year undergraduate degree programme of the Department of Political Science are required to follow the Luiss Academic English Course which prepares them for the final Written and Oral Examinations. The Luiss Academic English Course is a 36-hour module which requires at least the same number of hours of work outside class (blended learning).

The objective of the Course is to develop effective academic and study skills in English and to introduce concepts and lexical items related to students’ field of study. The aim is to enable students to broaden their studies and/or to participate in international programs at home and abroad, which are more and more often taught in English. To this end, the course draws principally on authentic texts, both written and spoken, from academic sources and reputable web sites in order to assist students in acquiring in English core concepts and terminology related to the fields of politics, economics, law and political communication, and in developing academic competences and study and research skills in English.

In order to ensure that students achieve this outcome, a special text book has been put together by a team of Luiss lecturers. Each student is required to have a personal copy of Texts, Terms and Tasks Academic English for Students of the Social Sciences in order to attend the course. The materials in this text book will be the basis of the Oral Exam.

The final Written and Oral Examinations will be based directly on the work done during the course (inside and outside the classroom), and the best preparation for the Final Examination is to attend all classes, participate actively and complete all outside assignments.

The final mark for the Course will be based on a number of factors:  class attendance and participation  work done in the course textbook  a portfolio of other out-of-class assignments  performance on the final Written and Oral examinations.

The Written Examination will be held in class during the last class session, and is reserved for those students who have attended regularly and completed all of the required coursework. Students are asked to do a critical reading of a text related to one of the topics covered in the course and write an argumentative essay with an Introduction, Development and Conclusion.

The Oral Examination will be held after the end of the course during the official examination session. Students should bring their own personal copy of the course book Texts, Terms and Tasks with all the written activities completed during the course, as well as the essays written which should be collected in an exam Portfolio. They will be asked to discuss their coursework (textbook and portfolio) and to give a brief presentation on a topic from the course textbook which was not covered during the course, with an Introduction, a Development and a Conclusion.

At the end of the Oral Examination students will be assigned:  a university mark out of 30  a level of overall language competence with reference to the Common European Framework  8 European credits

Course textbook : Texts, Terms and Tasks Academic English for Students of the Social Sciences, edited by Linda Lombardo and Christine Eade, New Edition 2016, Rome, Luiss University Press. (The textbook should be brought to every class and to the oral exam)