Curricular Unit:			Code:
English II			1077ING2
Year:	Level:	Course:	Credits:
1	Undergraduate	Nursing	2 ects
Learning Period:		Language of Instruction:	Total Hours:
Spring Semester		Portuguese/English	26
Learning Outcomes of the Curricular Unit:
General Competences: - Communicate, understand and produce messages in English, both in social and professional contexts. - Use English in a variety of real situations. - Adopt a reflexive attitude, considering the social-economic reality of communication practices. Specific Competences: Instrumental skills: - Communicate orally and in writing in English. - Identify and understand messages in English. - Use English in social-professional situations, according to students’ specific areas of learning, as well as accede knowledge in this language. Interpersonal Skills: - Improve students’ communication skills so they can use English to make interpersonal contact in different situations. - Enable students to work in an international context. - Improve team work, by using a foreign language, namely English.
Syllabus:
1. Human Anatomy 1.1 Body Systems 1.2 Medical Terms 2. Medical disorders 2.2 Nursing specialities 2.3 Drugs and pharmaceutical substances 2.4 Hospital ward and equipment 2.5 Tests 2.6 Medical terminology 3. Research project
Demonstration of the Syllabus Coherence with the Curricular Unit's Objectives:
The thematic items of the syllabus aim to provide the students with generic competences, so as to be able to communicate, understand and produce messages in English language, both in social and professional contexts, where they should be able to use the language in life-like situations. For this purpose, in this curricular unit the students are encouraged to adopt an introspective and reflexive attitude, bearing in mind a social and economic reality of architecture. It is the purpose of this curricular unit to lead the students to an improvement of their communicational competences in English, so as to make them able to use this language in the establishment of different interpersonal contacts, in different social and professional contexts, allowing the professional performance in international environments. With the ‘Project’ component, it is the aim of this discipline to improve team work skills, with the use of a second language (namely English).
Teaching Methodologies (Including Evaluation):
Continuous assessment of knowledge or final exam
Demonstration of the Coherence between the Teaching Methodologies and the Learning Outcomes:
In order to maximize the specific competences of students, the methodology adopted (with an emphasis on the continuous assessment of knowledge) encourages the improvement of instrumental skills, namely the ability to communicate orally and in writing, to identify and understand messages, using the English language in a variety of social and professional situations, also considering it as a privileged means of access to knowledge in general. The methodologies adopted, with an emphasis on the practical issues, aim to encourage the students to interpret communicational circumstances and phenomena pertaining to the different cultural and linguistic contexts, acquiring further experience in the gathering, identification and interpretation of data from different cultural contexts, leading to an increased understanding and adaptation to diverse cultural environments where communication is in English.
Reading:
Cobuild English Grammar (2017) Glendinning, E.H. and Holmström, B. (2005) English in Medicine – 3rd Edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Glendinning, E.H. and Howard, R. (2007). Professional English in Use: Medicine. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. Grice, T. (2007).Oxford English for Careers: Nursing 1. Oxford, Oxford University Press. Grice, Tony (2007).Oxford English for Careers: Nursing 2. Oxford, Oxford University Press. Milner, M. (2006). English for Health Sciences. Boston, Thomson. Ribes, R. and Ros, P.R. (2006). Medical English. Heidelberg, Springer. Tortora, G.J. & Derrickson, B.H. (2020). Principles of Anatomy and Physiology, 16th Ed. John Wiley & Sons, Inc"