Aim: This is a seminar/crash course in English for students of/ with an interest in International Relations, Political Science and International Political Economy. It aims at developing students’ academic and basic professional language skills (especially writing skills) necessary to deal with their academic career and occupations in their field of specialization related to International Relations and International Political Economy. The course will be focused on the analysis of culture-loaded messages, dominant and hidden ideologies inscribed in texts, which are interpreted as social and historical products. Being this a crash course targeting students with a B1 level of English as a second/foreign Language, it will not focus on grammar, which will be revised only when relevant to the topics under discussion and assigned exercises. For those who may need further grammar revision exercises, the use of the interactive exercises uploaded on the undergraduate Moodle course is highly recommended.
Being a blended course making use of the Moodle platform for the delivery of learning content, this course will include a series of online writing exercises that will be corrected by the instructor during the 1st semester, in the period in which class lessons will also be available.