Foreign language for professional purposes
Course: Landscape Planning of the Urbanized Environment (Master)
Structural unit: Biology And Medicine Institute Science Educational Center
Title
Foreign language for professional purposes
Code
Module type
Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
Second
Year of study when the component is delivered
2025/2026
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
1 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
4
Learning outcomes
PR9. Present the results of research in the field of horticulture to specialists and non-specialists.
PR17. Collect, process, analyze and systematize scientific and technical information on the topic of research, put forward and verify scientific hypotheses, choose
optimal methods, techniques and means of research, make and argue conclusions based on research results.
Form of study
Full-time form
Prerequisites and co-requisites
1. Successful mastery of academic disciplines of the Bachelor's degree program (knowledge obtained during the study of theoretical courses in such professionally oriented disciplines as "Plant Biology", "Plant Biochemistry", "Foreign Language", etc.).
2. Proficiency in English at level B2-C1.
3. Ability to independently work with scientific and scientific-methodological literature.
4. Possession of basic skills of systems analysis.
Course content
"Foreign Language for Professional Purposes" as an academic discipline teaches students to see in foreign languages a means of obtaining, expanding and deepening systemic professional knowledge, as well as a means of independently improving their professional qualifications. Prepares students for natural communication in oral and written forms. Teaches them to choose and use appropriate language tools for producing texts (reports, reports, articles, lectures, etc.) of various types. The subject of study of the academic discipline is to reveal to students the potential of foreign languages as an opportunity to expand their own linguistic, speech, linguistic, sociocultural and other competences in the specialty in the use of foreign languages.
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
1. Textbook for second and third year students of the Faculty of Biology / Authors-compilers Gomon N.M., Kurdish O.K., Snopchenko V.I. – K.: Publishing and Printing Center “Kyiv University”, 2010. – 207 p.
2. Textbook on English for postgraduate students of the Faculty of Biology / O.K. Kurdish – K.: Publishing and Printing Center “Kyiv University”, 2011.
3. Program of educational practice for second year students of the specialty “Applied Linguistics and English” / Compiled by: Zuban O. M., Dudnik Z. V., Bas-Kononenko O. V., Plahotnikova O. Yu. – K.: Publishing and Printing Center “Kyiv University”, 2016. – 31 p.
4. Yakhontova T. V. Fundamentals of English-language scientific writing: Textbook for students, postgraduates and researchers. – Ed. 2nd. – Lviv: PAIS, 2003. – 220 p.
5. English: Focus on Agriculture: textbook / T. A. Gannichenko, O. V. Artyukhova – Mykolaiv, MNAU, 2018. – 215 p.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Practical classes
Independent work
Assessment methods and criteria
- semester assessment:
1. Modular test 1 – 30 points / 15 points
2. Intermediate tests - 20 points / 10 points
3. Oral answers / additions – 30 points / 15 points
4. Presentation/report assessment – 20 points / 10 points.
- final assessment: in the form of a credit
Language of instruction
Ukrainian
Lecturers
This discipline is taught by the following teachers
Olena
Yuriyivna
Plakhotnikova
Department of Language Training
Biology And Medicine Institute Science Educational Center
Biology And Medicine Institute Science Educational Center
Departments
The following departments are involved in teaching the above discipline
Department of Language Training
Biology And Medicine Institute Science Educational Center