How to Start Your Term Effectively
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25 – 26 January 2019
- MU Language Centre, room no. 213
Academics need to be aware of what is expected of them when starting a new course and it is their role to be able to introduce their courses to students explicitly and effectively. This seminar gives participants an opportunity to develop an understanding of ways to introduce different types of courses and practice such introductions.
The overall aims of the course are to help participants develop:
- effective structures of introductions to academic courses,
- an awareness of types of information students are expected to receive at course first sessions
- the skills and tools needed to develop or adapt course-specific styles and tones that can influence course dynamics and student behaviour
- new vocabulary.
Lecturer: Sophia Butt
Sophia Butt joined the University of Birmingham (UoB) in the UK in 1997 as a course writer for the distance MA in Translation Studies at the Centre for English Language Studies (now English Language & Applied Linguistics): she has been working as a Personal Tutor, Examiner & Staff Mentor on this degree programme since 2002. From 2008 to 2014, Sophia was Director of the Business Management English (BME) Presessional Programme at the UoB.
She is currently a doctoral researcher, exploring the impact of counter-radicalisation discourse and its impact on the UK education sector from an interdisciplinary perspective (involving Linguistics, Social Policy and Law). In addition to the UoB, Sophia is affiliated to Aalto University in Finland (2006- ); Masaryk University in the Czech Republic (2008- ); Suleyman Demirel University in Kazakhstan (2012- ); King’s College London (2014- ); BPP University London (2015- ); and Trinity College London (2015- ).
Friday: two 90 min sessions (14:00 – 18:30) – start will be specified
Saturday: three 90 min sessions (09:00 – 15:30)
Register here
Enroll was possible until 25 January 2019.
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https://www.cjv.muni.cz/cs/akce/how-to-start-your-course-effectively-january-2019/