Study Programmes 2015-2016
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| Advanced English for biomedical sciences | ||||||||||||||
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Duration :
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| 30h Th | ||||||||||||||
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Number of credits :
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Lecturer :
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| Julien Dubois, Christine Filot | ||||||||||||||
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Language(s) of instruction :
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| English language | ||||||||||||||
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Organisation and examination :
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| Teaching in the first semester, review in January | ||||||||||||||
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Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :
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| Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program | ||||||||||||||
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Course contents :
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| The MedEng 2 course continues the development of reading skills, data gathering, and note-taking using texts or series of texts (as started during the MedEng 1 course), and focuses also on research capacities as well as understanding of short video documents. | ||||||||||||||
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Learning outcomes of the course :
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| - allow students to read and understand English medical literature.
- allow students to understand short videos in English. - allow students to briefly debate several issues thrown light on in the textbook |
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Prerequisite knowledge and skills :
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| MedEng 1 (Medical English -1st part, in 1st year of the Bachelor's Degree in Medicine or Dentistry) or equivalent (e.g. IELTS 5.5-6 or Cambridge Advanced English A- C). | ||||||||||||||
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
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| The course features two-hour in-class sessions where the students' active participation is required (through debates, listening and reading comprehension exercises) alternating with mandatory online modules (enhancing vocabulary, reading and listening skills). | ||||||||||||||
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Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :
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| The course is taught in groups after an introductory lecture given in amphitheater. Class attendance is highly recommended. The online learning modules are prepared at home by students between courses and must be completed before attending the next class. | ||||||||||||||
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Recommended or required readings :
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| Medeng2 course notes are available in digital format through eCampus.
3 modules with exercises on eCampus. |
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Assessment methods and criteria :
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| The final mark is 100 % based on the January exam.
Written exam with multiple choice questions (IELTS 6.0 level) based on a medical article, theory and vocabulary revised thoughout the year -both in class and @nline- and a listening comprehension exercise. Students must demonstrate the ability to fully understand an unabridged and unsimplified paper from a medical journal, and medical data presented orally (through global and detailed understanding), as well as their knowledge of scientific English stylistic features. |
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Work placement(s) :
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Organizational remarks :
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| We insist on the fact that you can train and test yourself online on the ISLV Website: http://www.islv.ulg.ac.be/. | ||||||||||||||
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Contacts :
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| Christine Bouvy cbouvy@ulg.ac.be
Julien Dubois jdubois@ulg.ac.be Pascal Maquinay p.maquinay@ulg.ac.be(jdubois@ulg.ac.be) |
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Items online :
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 | Advanced English for Biomedical sciences Here is the textbook used in the four in-class encounters with your teachers |
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