«Introduction to Kyiv University Studies»

Course: "English Studies and Translation and Two Western European Languages"

Structural unit: Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology

Title
«Introduction to Kyiv University Studies»
Code
ОК.09
Module type
Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
First
Year of study when the component is delivered
2023/2024
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
1 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
2
Learning outcomes
PLO 2. Process information effectively: collect relevant information from a variety of sources, including professional literature and electronic databases, critically analyze and interpret it, organize, classify and systematize it. PLO 3. Organize own learning and self-education process. PLO 5. Collaborate with colleagues, representatives of other cultures and religions, supporters of different political views, etc. PLO 6. Use information and communication technologies to solve complex specialized tasks and issues of professional activity. PLO 7. Understand the major issues of philology and approaches to solving those using relevant methods and innovative approaches.
Form of study
Full-time form
Prerequisites and co-requisites
The program is designed for students who are at least B2 English users; they are supposed to be able to work with scientific texts and to possess basic communicative skills in modelling oral and written texts in English.
Course content
The course acquaints students with the traditions of university education in Ukraine and around the world. It reveals the circumstances of the establishment of St. Vladimir University in Kyiv. The history of the organization of the educational process, the reforms that took place in education at different times, the legal status of the university are considered. The course covers the development of scientific schools at Kyiv University, the peculiarities of training scientific staff, the organization of international cooperation. The course gives an idea of the formation of philology as a separate scientific field, the essence of philological disciplines, their subject, object as well as methods of research used in them. It reveals classical paradigms of philological scientific knowledge and the formation of new paradigms, acquaints students with the names of outstanding representatives of various philological directions. Classes are conducted in the form of lectures.
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
1. Аніловська Г. Я. Університетська освіта: навчальний посібник. – 2-е вид., перероб. і допов. / Аніловська Г. Я., Марушко Н. С., Томаневич Л. М. – Львів, 2010. 2. Ідея університету: сучасний дискурс: монографія / Л. В. Губерський, В. Г. Кремень, С. В. Курбатов та ін.; за ред. Л. В. Губерського, А. С. Філіпенка. – К., 2014. 3. Некрополь філологів – викладачів Київського Свято-Володимирового та Шевченкового університету: бібліографічний довідник / за ред. Г.Ф.Семенюка. – К.: Логос, 2018. – 291 с. 4. Історія Київського університету, 1834–1959. – К., 1959. 5. Історія Київського університету. – К., 2014. 6. Кузьмінський А. І. Вступ до університетських студій: навч. посіб. для студ. ун-тів. – Черкаси, 2004. 7. Патриляк І. К., Боровик М. А., Ляпіна О. В. Нариси з історії Київського університету: Навчальний посібник для студентів історичного факультету. – К., 2009. 8. Професори Київського університету: біографічний довідник. – К., 2014.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Training activities during the semester: writing tests during the lectures; writing essays during the individual work.
Assessment methods and criteria
Semester assessment: maximum score during the semester is 80 points: module tests: LO 1.1-1.4 – 40 points; essays: LO 2.1-2.4 – 40 points; At the end of the semester the final test is written: LO 2.5, 4.1 – 20 points. The final score (maximum 100 points) is defined as the sum of points obtained for systematic work during the semester, taking into account the final test. The final credit score is based on the results of the student’s work throughout the semester and the results of the final test.
Language of instruction
English

Lecturers

This discipline is taught by the following teachers

Anna Anatoliivna Stoliarova
Department of English Philology and Intercultural Communication
Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology
Alona Yuriivna Tron
Department of World Ukrainian History
Faculty of History