ACADEMIC WRITING IN ENGLISH FOR NON-NATIVE SPEAKERS|ACADEMIC WRITING|ENGLISH

The course aims to raise awareness of the conventions of written academic literacy among students from other learning cultures. The course will also help to...

Academic Writing in English for Non-Native Speakers (LCEN0002)

The course aims to raise awareness of the conventions of written academic literacy among students from other learning cultures. The course will also help to improve writing ability in a variety of text types, focusing on sentence-level lexis and syntax, text coherence and cohesion, and appropriate style. In doing so, we aim to help improve the ability to perform in all written tasks on the student's own degree programme: course assignments and reports, examination essays and dissertations. Upon completion of the course students will be expected to understand and use theories and conventions of written academic literacy, use rhetorical and logical strategies to express ideas effectively in writing, develop their own voice and be able to position themselves in texts, employ relevant strategies for distinct tasks, ranging from unseen examination essays to prepared coursework on the student’s own degree programme.

For full module details please see the CLIE language modules site at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/languages-international-education/study/modules.

This course will examine some of the major intellectual currents in modern German history. It will make you familiar with important thinkers and some of their...

Between Politics and Culture: German Ideas 1890 - 1970 (HIST0004)

This course will examine some of the major intellectual currents in modern German history. It will make you familiar with important thinkers and some of their texts, but also some lesser known individuals and their contributions to intellectual history. The course will offer an introduction to the field of intellectual history, and a means of understanding fundamental concepts and ideas that have been shaped by, and have shaped the course of recent German history. The seminar will discuss different aspects of ‘modernity’, their different meanings and understandings, and trace the development of these from the late nineteenth to the twentieth century. The aim is to study how social developments, political changes, as well as personal preferences and idiosyncrasies affected and shaped the work of these intellectuals, who in turn made a major contribution to modern culture.