Topics for the semester-----------
Personality, including wide use of Myer - Briggs Tests
Work- Life Balance & Career
Vegetarian-Vegan: moral, environmental considerations
Internet: Your Data (data collection and privacy)
Germany seen through US-UK eyes
Weather, Climate & Climate Change
History and Slavery in the US
GMOs: nutritional, environmental or profitable?
American Politics (historically and now)
Argumentation & Logic in English
Your Smartphone (impact of technology)
Presentations & Creating a Video of Yourself
Because a large part of a student's skills are developed and demonstrated during the weekly class sessions, should a student misses 20% or more of those sessions, extra work will be required to prove the student's proficiency and mastery of the course material.
More detailed information can be found under "Konkretisierung" here on the EkVV. Should you have further questions regarding the scope, duration and requirements for the course, please send the instructor an email.
-> Bitte beachten Sie, dass dieser Kurs nur online verfügbar sein wird. Alle Lehrveranstaltungen werden mit Zoom und Lernrnraum+ durchgeführt.
-> Please note that this course will be online only. All lessons will be given using Zoom and Lernrnraum+.
This course is for ambitious advanced students who want to become more comfortable and fluent with their English.
- The course involves videos, texts, forum-writing, small-group speaking and presenting, English idioms and pronunciation.
One of the following is required to attend the course:
- Successful completion of a B2.2 course with the test at the end of the summer semester (see FSZ Spracheinstufung) -or-
- B2+ level score on C-Test in English -or-
- the permission of the instructor (can be requested in a short interview with the instructor at first class).
- Spracheinstufungstest: For tests dates and registration see https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/einrichtungen/fsz/tests_and_certs/placement/
-> Bitte beachten Sie, dass dieser Kurs nur online verfügbar sein wird. Alle Lehrveranstaltungen werden mit Zoom und Lernrnraum+ durchgeführt.
-> Please note that this course will be online only. All lessons will be given using Zoom and Lernrnraum+.
Genauere Informationen zu Umfang, Dauer und Anforderungen werden den Teilnehmern zu Beginn der Veranstaltung mitgeteilt.
Rhythmus | Tag | Uhrzeit | Format / Ort | Zeitraum |
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Modul | Veranstaltung | Leistungen | |
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23-FSZ-M20_a Spracherwerb: Spezifische Fertigkeiten bzw. Spezialisierung in den Fremdsprachen | Spracherwerb: Spezifische Fertigkeiten bzw. Spezialisierung in den Fremdsprachen 1. Teil | unbenotete Prüfungsleistung
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Studieninformation |
Spracherwerb: Spezifische Fertigkeiten bzw. Spezialisierung in der Fremdsprache 2. Teil | unbenotete Prüfungsleistung
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Studieninformation |
Die verbindlichen Modulbeschreibungen enthalten weitere Informationen, auch zu den "Leistungen" und ihren Anforderungen. Sind mehrere "Leistungsformen" möglich, entscheiden die jeweiligen Lehrenden darüber.
Studiengang/-angebot | Gültigkeit | Variante | Untergliederung | Status | Sem. | LP | |
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Fachsprachenzentrumskurse | ENG | 2.5 | unbenotet |
This course is for ambitious advanced students who want to become more comfortable and fluent with their English. The course involves videos, texts, forum-writing, small-group speaking and presenting, English idioms and pronunciation.
Students will watch videos and read various texts in English as well as engage with various other media. There will be weekly writing and speaking assignments as well as a final video-presentation project whose completion is required to receive the LP.
- Students are expected to participate fully in the course, both in class and on Lernraum.
- Class sessions will include several small-group (3-4 students) Breakout Room sessions with discussions on various topics, including the topic-of-the-week
- Students will prepare an informal "3 Minute Talk" presentation for a small-group session each week
- There will be an in-class pronunciation and speech training session most weeks
- Students are expected to visit the Lernraumplus each week to view videos, read topical texts and to write in Forums on the week's topic.
- Write in weekly topic-focused Facebook style Forums
- Use a search engine to find an internet article and post a brief Forum entry with the URL, searchwords and a short summary
-> Create a Final Video Project, a 3-5 minute presentation recorded on a Smartphone and posted on Lernraum
- During class students should have their cameras on - if there are internet problems, the instructor must be informed in advance or immediately upon the experience of the problem.
NOTE: Because a large part of a student's skills are developed and demonstrated during the weekly class sessions, should a student misses 20% or more of those sessions, extra work will be required to prove the student's proficiency and mastery of the course material.
Zu dieser Veranstaltung existiert ein Lernraum im E-Learning System. Lehrende können dort Materialien zu dieser Lehrveranstaltung bereitstellen: