Curricular Unit:			Code:
English I			852ING1
Year:	Level:	Course:	Credits:
2	Undergraduate	Nursing	3 ects
Learning Period:		Language of Instruction:	Total Hours:
		Portuguese/English	39
Learning Outcomes of the Curricular Unit:
The present course aims to develop students’ linguistic and communication skills so as to ensure an effective communication in different social and professional situations, as a tool for the student’s specific academic and professional career, and to promote autonomous learning and research. It also expects to consolidate previous acquired language patterns, as well teach students to identify, comment on and produce different types of texts by developing their listening, comprehension, argumentative and problem solving skills.
Syllabus:
1. Socio-professional situations 2. Health 3. Project Work
Demonstration of the Syllabus Coherence with the Curricular Unit's Objectives:
The themes selected for the development of linguistic and communication competences in English language meet the aim of ensuring an effective communication in different social and professional situations in the field of Management and Accountancy: socialization, travel, the hospital and the hospital team, the human body, describing symptoms and medication, doctor-patient dialogues, nutrition.
Teaching Methodologies (Including Evaluation):
Continuous; Exam
Demonstration of the Coherence between the Teaching Methodologies and the Learning Outcomes:
The different reading, writing, comprehension and textual production activities, inherent to the development of the communicative competence in English language, meet the aim of ensuring an effective communication in different social and professional situations in English language, in the health area. The project work promotes autonomous research in English language, the knowledge of norms for drafting academic works and the ability to present academic works in English.
Reading:
Grice, T. (2007).Oxford English for Careers: Nursing 1. Oxford, Oxford University Press. Eastwood, J. (2006). Oxford Practice Grammar – Intermediate. Oxford, Oxford University Press. Glendinning, E.H. & Howard, R. (2007). Professional English in Use: Medicine. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. Glendinning, E.H. & Holmström, B. (2005). English in Medicine – 3rd Edition. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.