Overview: Description This course offers support if you need to improve your English for university studies. The aim is to develop your grammar skills in order to enable you to undertake future academic assignments successfully. This course can be taken parallel to its sister courses to complete a 30 credit semester, offered as 3 separate courses in the series:
Basic English Reading and Vocabulary Skills for University, 7.5 credits
Basic English Grammar Skills for University, 7.5 credits
Basic English Writing and Presenting Skills for Universtiy, 15 credits.
General requirements for university studies.
Swedish upper secondary grades 34%, University credits completed 32%, Swedish Scholastic Aptitude Test (SweSAT) 34%
Mapels, W. and Redman, P. (2017). Good Essay Writing: A Social Sciences Guide. 5th Edition. SAGE Publications Ltd Digital Comp: London.
Van Emden, J. and Becker, L. (2016). Presentation Skills for Students. 3rd edition. London: Macmillian Study Skills.
Other course material may be provided by the course tutor as appropriate, up to a maximum of 200 pages consisting of both electronic material and hard copy.
The University provides students who participate in or who have completed a course with the opportunity to make known their experiences and viewpoints with regards to the course by completing a course evaluation administered by the University. The
University will compile and summarize the results of course evaluations as well as informing participants of the results and any decisions relating to measures initiated in response to the course evaluations. The results will be made available to the students (HF 1:14).
