English: Cultural Awareness Workshops (Department of Engineering ONLY)

English Cultural Awareness Workshop

• PhD and Post Doc Engineering Students
• School of Technology if places available after priority to PhD and Post Docs Engineering Students
• Further details regarding Engineering Language Unit's eligibility criteria are available

Number of sessions: 2

• Cultural awareness within the University environment
• Aspects of the British lifestyle, British culture and contemporary social issues

• To demonstrate the importance of intercultural awareness in a multicultural environment such as the University
• To focus on the British lifestyle, considering aspects of behaviour, manners, social conventions and traditions

Class work and participation

Course syllabus is available

Two sessions of one and a half hours

• It is recommended that both sessions are attended, although signing up for just one of the two is possible.

Twice yearly (Michaelmas and Easter terms)

• CLIC: Speaking skills: Fluency and Appropriacy
• CLIC: Speaking skills: Practising your presentations in English
• CLIC: Speaking skills: Pronunciation Skills
• English Focus on Writing - Non-native PhD and Postdoc, MPhil by Research students from the Department of Engineering
• English: Writing: The Basics of Writing: Your Strategy
• English Focus on Writing 3 - Session 7 (Nonnative Postdoc, PhD and MPhil by Research Engineering ONLY)
• English: Writing Skills Two week intensive (PhD Engineering ONLY)
• English: Writing: Technology assisted writing workshop
• English: Writing Skills Workshop - Planning and Writing the Literature Review
• English: Writing Skills Workshop - Preparing Successful Poster Presentations
• English: Writing Skills Workshop - Presenting your Results and Findings
• English: Writing Skills Workshop - What makes a good Abstract and Title?
• English: Writing Skills Workshop - Working on the Discussion and Conclusions Sections
• English: Cultural Awareness
• CLIC: Cultural skills: Living in Britain