Academic listening
The aim of this course is to help you understand spoken English. It focuses particularly on the skills needed for understanding and taking notes in lectures and seminars.
Academic speaking
This course will help you with the kind of speaking skills you need for academic study, including participating in discussions, tutorials and seminars and delivering presentations.
Academic vocabulary
This course will raise your awareness of the words that are most commonly used in academic texts and provide you with practice in using them, both in your academic reading and writing.
Academic Writing for SBS (PG)
This course covers all the major skills and approaches involved in written assignments for SBS and SHTM students.
Assignment writing
This course covers all the major skills involved in writing assignments, including interpreting the task; academic style; referencing and paragraphing.
Critical thinking
This course will help you to develop thinking skills by asking questions, using deductive and inductive reasoning, problem-solving and creative thinking.
- Critical Thinking 1: This course will introduce and give practice in some of the critical thinking skills and language needed for academic study, with a focus on asking questions about what you read and constructing effective arguments. Topics covered include identifying a writer’s argument, evaluating evidence and finding weaknesses in arguments
- Critical Thinking 2: This course is designed for undergraduare students who have already completed ‘Critical Thinking 1’ or PG students. It will provide further opportunities to develop and practise the skills introduced in Critical Thinking 1, drawing on extracts from academic texts.
Dissertation Writing - six weeks
In semester 1, this six-week course is intended for students submitting their dissertation in January/February and focuses on writing the different sections, e.g. the Literature Review, the Results and the Discussion parts. In semester 2, this course is for those students who submit during the summer.
Dissertation Writing for SBS
This course focuses on writing the different sections of a dissertation, e.g. the Literature Review, the Results and the Discussion parts using examples from previous dissertations written by students in SBS and SHTM.
English for Employment Skills
Employability skills are key to successful career planning. On this course you will look at a range of skills and language related to employability such as developing your CV to meet the standards required by employers in the UK, writing cover letters, developing your job searching skills and learning how to tackle a range of assessment centre tasks.
Everyday Speaking
This course will help you with the kind of speaking skills you need in social and everyday situations.
Grammar for Academic Writing
This course provides explanations and practice in the areas of written grammar which cause the most difficulty for students.
Presentation Skills
This course will help you prepare to give academic presentations. It covers the different stages of a presentation, visual aids, body language and handling questions and answers. All students will have the opportunity to practice their presentation skills.
Pronunciation
Working with a tutor and language laboratory resources, this course will help you with your particular pronunciation difficulties. You will practice sounds stress and intonation, which will help you to be understood and to understand others more easily.
Technical writing for Electronic Engineering MSc students
This course helps MSc Electronic Engineering students to produce effective technical reports. It provides guidance on structure and what to include in each section. It also helps you to write in an impersonal style.
Technical Writing 1 (Lab reports) for undergraduate
This course is particularly relevant to scientists and engineers at undergraduate level. It provides guidelines for effective writing, concentrating on different aspects of technical reports and other forms of technical writing.
Technical Writing 2 (Advanced) for postgraduate
This course is particularly relevant to scientists and engineers at PGR level. It provides guidelines for effective writing, concentrating on different aspects of technical reports and other forms of technical writing.
