Hours per week
Objectives of the course (preferably expressed in terms of learning outcomes and competences): to familiarize students with scientific terminology and in particular that of Biology, Molecular biology and Genetics; to introduce the skills and language of the laboratory, graphs and charts, biology English related note-taking, summarizing, report writing, classifying, comparing, describing processes and giving instructions; to enable students to communicate their English effectively in a scientific context, to write in a manner adequate to the ACS style for scientists; to enable students master the language of science and achieve academic and professional development.
Course contents: Reading, speaking, listening, grammar, sentence structure, introducing academic writing (analysis & synthesis skills, paraphrasing and quoting) & translation of scientific and technical sources, familiarising students with terminology and technical vocabulary
The Department of Biology of the University of Crete was established in 1981 and is today an internationally recognized center for contemporary university education and research in the field of Biology.