Degree:
UndergraduateECTS:
4Type of Course:
ElectiveCourse Description:
The aim of this course is to familiarise students with the language of Architecture and the special terms used in spoken and written academic texts in order to help them develop the skills needed for the comprehension and production of academic discourse. It focuses on developing grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation and style in an architectural context so that academic and socio/cultural assimilation can easily occur. Students learn to develop spoken English skills for social and academic spoken interactional contexts, such as seminar discussions, oral presentations, group work discussions, and informal conversations.
Course Content
- What is architecture
- Qualities of an Architect
- People in Architecture
- What is engineering
- The Essential Elements of a Modern Building
- Describing shapes and structures
- Describing materials
- Materials and types of construction
- Design and construction of buildings
- Scale
- Sketches
- Perspective
- Orientation
- Concept
- Design Factors
- Design tools and materials
- Models
- Drawings
- Historical Architecture
- Modernism
- Contemporary Architecture
Teaching Material
- Evans Virginia, Dooley Jenny and Cook Dave, “Career Paths: Architecture”, Express Publishing 2017
- Stathopoulou Maria, “Technical English for Architects, Civil Engineers and Surveying Engineers: A learner-centred Approach”, Simmetria Publications 2016
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Degree:
UndergraduateECTS:
4Type of Course:
ElectiveCourse Description:
This course is designed to help students develop competence and awareness of Academic English in order to successfully develop skills and knowledge in academic writing, to develop strategies for reading academic texts in English in order to exploit key text content for further study purposes including written work, seminar discussion and oral seminar presentation. It also aims at introducing note-taking skills and extending this into summarising of key ideas from written and oral architectural texts, raising awareness of academic lecture structure and the strategies required in order to follow and understand lecture content, lecturer behaviour, and lecturer discourse choices.
Course Content
- English Scientific Terminology
- Word Formation
- What is special about academic English
- College and university: the U.K. & the U.S. systems
- Academic courses
- Talking about ideas
- Reporting what others say
- Degrees of certainty
- Presenting an argument
- Organizing your writing
- Making a presentation
- Writing an impressive C.V.
- Environment and Buildings
- Interior Design
- Urbanism, urban design and urban planning
- Drawings
- Types of building materials and their properties
- Architectural trends
- From evolution to revolution in Architecture
- Architectural styles
- Ancient Greek Architecture
Teaching Material
- Stathopoulou Maria,”Technical English for Architects, Civil Engineers and Surveying Engineers: A learner-centred Approach”, Simmetria Publications 2016
- Kolethra Eleni, “Getting familiar with Technical English for Architects, Civil Engineers and Surveying Engineers”, 2nd Edition, New Tech Publications English Scientific Terminology
- Michael McCarthy and Felicity O’Dell, “Academic Vocabulary in Use”, Cambridge University Press 2008
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