Lektorat Englisch

Designed for all students seeking to refine their upper-intermediate (B2.2) Academic English, this course explores how culture, organizational structure, and communication shape global group and institutional dynamics. Topics explored are cross-cultural leadership, group dynamics, and conflict resolution within international settings. Developing academic language acquisition—reading, writing, listening, speaking, and critical analysis, the course prepares participants for the UNIcert II exam and to navigate professional communication and organizational politics. A highlight of this primarily on-campus course is its innovative hybrid, collaboratively-taught seminars with students and faculty from V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, offering a unique opportunity to apply language fluency and cross-cultural agility in dynamic, interdisciplinary settings.

From stone tools to space rockets and supercomputers, technology has changed how humans live throughout history. We often describe these changes positively as "progress" and "improvement", but do new inventions and industries always make the world better? This course explores technology from a critical perspective, considering how its evolution has been bound up with social and political controversies. Technological innovations have brought many practical benefits and made (some) people very rich, but do they make us happier, wiser or more free? Given technology's impact on health, community and the environment, is it time to put the breaks on and look for simpler ways of living? We will consider these questions while examining text, audio and video, and you will make arguments and debate with each other about the positive and negative aspects of technological "progress".