LANG 1408

Academic English for Humanities and Social Science Studies

Course Description

This course develops transferable academic literacy skills in researching and developing a credible and persuasive academic argument through a range of communication methods. This takes place within the context of the humanities and social science discipline.   

Highlights

  • Chatbot and interactive micro-learning support for assessment development
  • Communicative practice with personalized feedback  

Assessments

  • Assessment 1: enhance your ability to critique source material through a spoken critique forum
  • Assessment 2: produce discipline-related texts through a written argumentative essay
  • Other tasks: in-class checkpoints and end-of-course language test

Target Students

Required course for all undergraduate on Global China Studies and Quantitative Social Analysis programs.

Learning Experience

Gain transferable skills such as literature searches and literature evaluation, building a persuasive argument and appropriate use of multimodal and linguistic features to communicate to a particular audience.

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