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English for Studying Social Sciences or Economics: Academic English Skills for Master and Bachelor Students
SPZ 1.560
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Beschreibung
The Language Center (Sprachenzentrum) offers this introduction to Academic English for students in the Social Sciences (e.g., in the Master programs "Conflict Studies and Peacebuilding", "International Migration and Intercultural Relations", "European Governance", "Dynamics of Social Change", and "Economic and Social Geography") as well as for students in Economics (e.g., in the Master programs "Applied Economics", "Business Administration", and "Information Systems"). It is, however, also open to all other interested Bachelor and Master students.
The purpose of this online course is to develop English language skills for studying at university and to understand how English is and should be used in academic contexts. It will develop strategies for reading effectively and for producing well-constructed (written and spoken) texts. By focusing on what is expected of you at university, the course will practice English grammar, academic writing, critical thinking, and the proper use of sources, data, and other information.
Main Learning Outcomes:
• understanding the specifics of Academic English
• using English properly in academic contexts
• avoiding typical language errors/pitfalls
• constructing clear, concise, and convincing sentences
• understanding research papers and other difficult aca-demic texts and reading them effectively
• organizing the writing process, esp. when getting started
• developing a clear focus in a writing assignment
• planning and structuring a coherent, well-organized text
• drafting effective paragraphs
• applying critical thinking skills when expressing yourself
• working with ideas and data from the research literature and avoiding plagiarism when using academic sources
• planning and developing a literature review
Course Organization:
Throughout the course, we will both analyze different types of texts and actively practice the use of Academic English. For this, the course will alternate between lectures (with input and discussions) and tutorials (with group work and small individual projects). While the lectures address the issues listed above in a more general, interdisciplinary way and are integrating student groups from various disciplines, the tutorials will consider subject-specific topics to ensure that the guidelines and skills discussed can be applied to your course of studies. Thus, your specific requirements and your previous knowledge of English will be taken into consideration here.
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Ort: (Online through the BBB Meeting Room)
Zeiten: Mi. 14:15 - 15:45 (wöchentlich),
Mi. 16:15 - 17:45 (wöchentlich)
Erster Termin: Mittwoch, 10.04.2024 14:15 - 15:45, Ort: (Online through the BBB Meeting Room)
Veranstaltungsart: Fachspezifischer Kurs (Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen)
Studienbereiche
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften > M.Sc. Economics (Accreditation 2022) > Allgemeine Kompetenzen (General Competencies)
- Sozialwissenschaften > Master Internationale Migration und Interkulturelle Beziehungen (IMIB) > Für alle interessierten IMIB-Studierenden
- Europäische Studien > Master-Studiengang > Master Europäisches Regieren (ab WS 2014/15)
- Sprachen lernen und Vielfalt gestalten
- Lernen und wissenschaftlich arbeiten
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften > M.Sc. Economics (Akkreditierung 2014) > Schlüsselkompetenzen
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften > M.Sc. Economics (Accreditation 2022) > Volkswirtschaftslehre und Methoden (Economics and Methods) > Weitere Veranstaltungsformen (other types of courses)
- Für die Studierenden im Zwei-Fächer-Bachelor-Studiengang > Professionalisierungsbereich / Schlüsselkompetenzen > Fächerübergreifende Schlüsselkompetenzen > Angebote zum Spracherwerb
- Sozialwissenschaften > Master Soziologie
- Sozialwissenschaften > Master Politikwissenschaft
- Geographie > Master Gesellschaft - Umwelt - Zukunft > Englischsprachige Veranstaltung
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften > Courses in English
- Business Administration and Economics
- Cultural Studies and Social Sciences (e.g. European Studies, International Relations)
- Educational and Cultural Studies
- Geographie > Master Boden, Gewässer, Altlasten > Englischsprachige Veranstaltungen
- Sozialwissenschaften > Master Politikwissenschaft: Demokratisches Regieren und Zivilgesellschaft (PO 2010/11) > Governance and Peace Building
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften > Alte Studienbereiche > Master of Science "Applied Economics" > Weitere Module
- Akademische Fremdsprachenlehre > Englisch
- Geographie > Master Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeographie > Englischsprachige Veranstaltungen
Past and Forthcoming Events
- Bernoulli-ims 11th World Congress in Probability and Statistics, Bochum, August 12-16, 2024
- Workshop on Stein's Method and Networks, Oxford, June 20-21, 2024
- Spatial Stochastics in High Dimensions, Osnabrück, May 2-3, 2024
- SPP2265-Meeting on Stochastic Geometry and Point Processes, Münster University, 15.11.2023
- DMV meeting 2023, TU Ilmenau, 25.-28.09.2023
- Workshop Random Graphs 2023, TU Dortmund, 04.-08.09.2023
- 43rd conference on Stochastic Processses and their Applications, in Lisbon, 24.-28.7.2023
- UK Easter Probability Meeting, Stochastic modelling of complex systems, The Univesity of Manchester, 27.-31.3.2023
- BOS Workshop on Stochastic Geometry, Osnabrück, 22.-24.2.2023
- Stochastic Geometry Workshop, Osnabrück, 23-25.11.2022
- Workshop Recent Trends in Spatial Stochastic Processes, Eurandom Eindhoven, 03.-07.10.2022
- SPP Workshop Limit theorems for spatial random structures, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 07.09.-09-09.2022
- Stein’s Method: The Golden Anniversary, IMS Program Singapore, 13.06.–08.07.2022
- SPP Random Geometric Systems First Annual Conference, 11.04-14.04 2022
- Stochastiktage Mannheim, 27.09.-01.10.2021
- First Meeting of the Israel Mathematical Union and the German Mathematical Society, 8-10 March 2021, cancelled due to Coronavirus
- UK Easter Probability Meeting, 30 March to 3 April 2020, cancelled due to Coronavirus
- Dresdener Stochastik-Tage 24. to 27.03.2020, cancelled due to Coronavirus
- Final Workshop Cumulants, Concentration and Superconcentration, September 30 to October 2nd, 2019
- SIAM in Bern, 07.2019
- Symposium in memory of Charles Stein [1920-2016]
- Women in probability, 31.05. to 01.06.2019
- Fourth Workshop Cumulants, Concentration and Superconcentration, January 10 and 11, 2019
- Third Workshop Cumulants, Concentration and Superconcentration, April 5 and 6, 2018
- Workshop on Algebraic Methods in Statistics, 30.11. to 02.12. 2017
- Second Workshop Cumulants, Concentration and Superconcentration, June 26 and 27, 2017
- Opening Workshop Cumulants, Concentration and Superconcentration, December 6 to 8, 2016
- Conference on Combinatorial Structures in Geometry
- Organisation of the workshop Algebraic and Stochastic Aspects of Graph Theory
- Talk at Junior Female Researchers in Probability in Berlin, October 22 and 23, 2015
- Talk at Satellite workshop Recent Trends in Stochastic Analysis and Related Topics at Univ. Hamburg, September 20 and 21, 2015
- Local Organisation of the 18th Workshop on Stochastic Geometry, Stereology and Image Analysis"18th Workshop on Stochastic Geometry, Stereology and Image Analysis"
- Probabilistic and Geometric Facets of High Dimensions Organisation of the Mini-Workshop at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, October 9 and 10, 2014.
- Organisation of the DMV-Studierendenkonferenz 2014. Weitere Informationen
- Project "Mathematik be-greifen" in the Alfried Krupp-Schülerlabor at RUB, 2006-2013.
- Organisation of the IRTG Berlin-Zürich summer school "stochastic models of complex processes" and the Spring meeting Beijing/Bielefeld - Berlin/Zurich 2011
- Organisation of the DMV-Studierendenkonferenz 2009. Weitere Informationen
Publications
- Asymptotics of a time-bounded cylinder model, with N. Aschenbruck and S. Bussmann, Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0269964822000420
- The method of cumulants for the normal approximation, with S. Jansen and K. Schubert, Probability Surveys 2022, Vol. 19, 185-270, https://doi.org/10.1214/22-PS7
- Sedentary Random Waypoint, with C. Betken, arXiv:2009.02941
- The Impact of Bit Errors on Intra-Session Network Coding with Heterogeneous Packet Lengths, with B. Schütz, N. Aschenbruck, S. Bussmann and M. Juhnke-Kubitzke, Proc. of the 45th IEEE LCN Symposium on Emerging Topics in Networking LCN, virtually hosted in Sydney, Australia, Nov. 16–19, 2020.
- Stationarity for the Small World in Motion Mobility Model, with Nils Aschenbruck, Christian Heiden und Matthias Schwamborn, MSWIM '19: Proceedings of the 22nd International ACM Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems, Nov 25-29, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1145/3345768.3355935
- Crossing Numbers and Stress of Random Graphs, with Markus Chimani and Matthias Reitzner, In Proceedings 26th International Symposium, GD 2018, Barcelona, Spain, 255--268, 2018 available here and for an extended journal version here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.07558
- Fluctuations in a general preferential attachment model via Stein's method, with Carina Betken and Marcel Ortgiese, Random Structures & algorithms, vol.55, no.4, 2019 available here
- Connection times in large ad-hoc mobile networks, Bernoulli, vol.22, no.4, 2143--2176, 2016 available here
with Gabriel Faraud, Wolfgang König - The random disc thrower problem, Proceedings of the 90th European Study Group Mathematics with Industry, 59-78, 2013 available here with T. van der Aalst, D. Denteneer, M. Hong Duong, R. J. Kang, M. Keane, J. Kool, I. Kryven, T. Meyfroyt, T. Müller, G. Regts, J. Tomczyk
- Edge fluctuations of eigenvalues of Wigner matrices, High Dimensional Probability VI: the Banff volume, Progress in Probability, vol.66, 261-275, Springer, Basel, 2013 available here
with Peter Eichelsbacher - Moderate deviations for the determinant of Wigner matrices, Dedicated to Friedrich Götze on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday, Limit Theorems in Probability, Statistics and Number Theory, Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, vol.42, 253-275, 2013, available here
with Peter Eichelsbacher - Moderate deviations for the eigenvalue counting function of Wigner matrices, ALEA, Lat. Am. J. Probab. Math. Stat. 10 (1), 27-44, 2013, available here
with Peter Eichelsbacher - Moderate deviations via cumulants, Journal of Theor. Probability, 2012, available here
with Peter Eichelsbacher - Moments of recurrence times for Markov chains, Electronic Comm. Probab., 16(28), 296-303, 2011, available here
with Frank Aurzada, Marcel Ortgiese, Michael Scheutzow - Moderate deviations in a random graph and for the spectrum of Bernoulli random matrices, Electronic Journal of Probability, Vol. 14, Paper no. 92, 2636-2656, 2009, available here
with Peter Eichelsbacher - Perpendicular transport of charged particles in slab turbulence: recovery of diffusion for realistic wave-spectra?, Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, 35, 025202, 2008
with Andreas Shalchi - Velocity correlation functions of charged test particles, Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, 34, 859, 2007
with Andreas Shalchi
