UEC Academic Skills IV (Comprehensive Reading & Summary Skills)

Class Description

Instructor: Prof. Masahisa Mabo Suzuki
Office: P-617
Email: suzuki@fedu.uec.ac.jp
Telephone: 0424-43-5745

Instructor: Monica Arakaki
Office: P-617
Email: monica@fedu.uec.ac.jp
Telephone: 0424-43-5746

Website: http://www.fedu.uec.ac.jp/~isc-doc
Classroom: P-117
Class Schedule: Monday, 18:00 ~ 19:30

Course Description

In this class, you will learn comprehensive reading and summary writing for scientific and business purpose. Every week, you will do short or long article reading on scientific and business topics. We expect that you will increase your vocabulary and pick-up short summary skills with keywords.

This class is designed for multi-entry of English Proficiency.

Prerequisites

Students are required to have basic-intermediate English level.

Attendance and Punctuality

Students are expected to come to class on time and stay for the 1.5 hours. Absences are excused in case of emergency, sickness, trips to conferences. Attendance is weighted as 10% of the final grade. To obtain this 10% the student should have to attend 90% of all classes of the semester.

Class Participation

We expect students to be the active part of the learning process. We encourage the participation of students with questions, discussions, and comments. If you have anything interesting to say about the topics of this course covers please feel free to share with the others in open forum.

Assigments

Assignments have to be done during the class time. At the end of the theoretical explanation, students are given enough time to make the exercises and finish the assignment for the class. There will be some homework to be done.

Archieves