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English in Dentistry
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:7.00
Study Course Accepted:22.08.2024 15:10:42
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | VC_061 | LQF level: | Level 5 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Linguistics | Target Audience: | Dentistry | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Tatjana Zakutajeva | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Dzirciema street 16, Rīga, szf rsu[pnkts]lv | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 0 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 0 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 0 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 16 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 32 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 32 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Knowledge of the English language at secondary school level. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To develop students’ communication skills for use in academic and professional settings and to facilitate the acquisition of professional terminology for productive use. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Introduction to the course. Effective communication. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Medical breakthroughs. Presentation | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Signs and systems. Pain assessment scales and pain management. Test. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Vocabulary enrichment on the theme History of dentistry and Dental specialties. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Terminology acquisition on the theme Preventive dentistry. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Terminology acquisition on the theme Human dentition and Anatomy of oral cavity. Test. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Terminology acquisition on the theme Dental surgery, Dental unit and basic dental instruments. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | Lexical minimum acquisition on the theme Cross infection control in the dental practice and Professional disease prevention. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 9 | Communication skills development in dentist – patient interaction: communication in the dental practice. Managing dental fear. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 10 | Terminology acquisition on the theme Dental caries. Terminology acquisition on xerostomia and halitosis. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 11 | Semester presentation. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Individual and pair work: preparing a presentation on one of the course topics; work with monolingual dictionaries (definitions/explanations of the terms); writing summaries according to the given principles. Students are obliged to fill in the course evaluation questionnaire at the end of the course. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | • Active participation in classes; written homework – of appropriate quality, submitted in due time, the quality of oral answers -10%; • Presentations on the topics covered 2 times throughout the course - 30%; • Test – checking terminology acquisition and its practical application - 20%; • At the end of the course – Written Examination – checking knowledge and practical application of terminology, general comprehension and understanding of specific information, and the language use - 40%. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | On successful completion of the course, students will be able to • recognize professional terminology in different types of texts; • recall professional terminology related to the field of dental hygiene; • describe different phenomena in the field of dental hygiene using professional terminology in English. | ||||||||
| Skills: | Upon successful completion of the course the students will be able to: select and use appropriate terminology in English for oral communication (presentations, discussions) and written communication (doctor's records, letters of referral, medical article annotations) in the the field of dental hygiene; use appropriate language devices to communicate their ideas both in written and spoken language; summarise the information from any kind of source in written and spoken language using relevant terminology in English; retell the general idea and specific information in different kinds of texts from varied types of sources. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | On successful completion of the course students will be able to practically apply the acquired terminology in varied interaction settings. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | K.Studzińska-Pasieka, M. Otto. Open Your English Wider. Poland: Bestom-Dentonet. pl. 2016. | ||||||||
| 2 | E. Martin. Oxford Concise Medical Dictionary. Oxford: Oxford University press, 2014. | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Medicine. Sam McCarter, Oxford University Press, 2019. | ||||||||
| 2 | Nursing. Tony Grice, Oxford University Press, 2018. | ||||||||
| 3 | Cambridge English for Nursing. Virginia Allum, Patricija McGarr, Cambridge University Press, 2018. | ||||||||
| 4 | Professional English in Use. Medicine, Eric H. Glendinning, Ron Howard, Cambridge University Press, 2017. | ||||||||
| 5 | Easwood, J. Oxford Practice Grammar. Intermediate. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/sections/dentistry/ | ||||||||
| 2 | www.dentistry.co.uk/ | ||||||||
| 3 | www.oup.com/elt | ||||||||
