English for Psychologist
Compulsory course for PhD students major in psychology
5 lectures, each 3@45 min, in English
Photo Galery, English 2007
Objectives:
Listening, Talking, Presenting and Writing
Content:
- oral and written communication
- horizontal and vertical logic in presentation
- what is good power point layout
- presentation skills in english
- giving feedback to each other
- APA rules
Methods:
- Short Lecture
- Homework (two emails and one powerpoint)
- Simulation (presentation, debate and poster)
- Class Discussion
Lecture Plan:
1. Sep 10 - Introduction
2. Sep 17 - Presentation of two master thesis
3. Oct 08 - Debate on the role of culture in psychology (six oral presentations)
4. Oct 15 - Poster presentation (eight poster presentation)
5. Closing
Examination scoring:
1) Written communication (writing two fictive emails and one powerpoint)
2) Oral communication (active participation and presentation skills)
First Homework: Fast Reading and Writing Emails
- Fast reading the chapter 4 (p. 93 - 164) from the book "The Craft of Scientific Presentations"
- Measure the time you need to read the chapter
- Write down the three most important learning points you take from the chapter which you would like to focus on
- Write an email to your professor reporting your reading speed and learning points
- Write an email to a foreign professor, asking him if you can get his articles
- Both email should be sent to Christine the latest on Su, Sep 16 before 09.00
For the powerpoint presentation
- In general you should use the same template provided, but you can change the logo, information etc
- The quality of the powerpoint itself will be the main part of the examination score (70%), email (10%), active participation (10%), presentation skills (10%)
- The final powerpoint presentation for the examination scoring should be sent to me the latest on Oct 31 2007
- Important criteria are: clear, well structured, easy to read and understand, somehow beautiful
The materials for the lecture and learning can be downloaded from:
www.gmail.com
login: zju.virtualdisk01
password: (like the one I said in the lecture you should put into the email subject. if you may have problem, pls contact christine)
