The Department of Languages supports the Faculty’s training in chemical and food technology with tuition in foreign languages: English aimed at students at intermediateand advanced levels. Classroom teaching focuses on reading, writing, and study skills, including those required for vocabulary development and for undertaking research.
The English language represents a compulsory subject for each student of the Faculty. The course is taught in two semesters in the first year of the study and closes with a 4-credit exam. The objective of the Department of Languages to teach specific language for professional purposes. The participants will be able to use the language in the study of their specialist area literature, to further develop all the language skills actively with the aim of mastering extensive reading and listening to texts, academic writing, poster and conference skills, presentations in English.
In the final exam students are expected to prepare a poster, or a power-point presentation on a scientific topic, present and support the topic in a class discussion. Besides the above-mentioned compulsory courses, there is a wide range of recommended subjects off ered, such as English conversation, preparatory courses for false beginners, Spanish, Russian, depending on the interest of students in the current year. These recommended courses are also available to STU employees. Postgraduate students can attend seminars for academic English in which they study and train academic skills, such as presentation techniques, writing reports, summaries and abstracts. Postgraduates are obliged to pass an examination in which they defend their scientific work results, prove their communication, discussion and other academic skills in English.
