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Headway online feedback: Strengths

  • Authentic texts for reading
  • New vocabulary progressing through the book with the use of interesting texts and real-life situations.
  • Interesting pre-reading tasks that help students get concentrated on the forthcoming topic
  • Students obtain communicative skills in Everyday English section with useful phrases
  • The Book is well organized, a teacher can see language input and skills development in every unit.
  • The book encourages students to work independently on grammar skills. Grammar Reference section is very well structured.

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Headway online feedback: Weaknesses

  • boring grammar tasks like "Fill in the gaps"
  • few tasks to revise the previous grammar material
  • too many grammar rules in one unit, can be difficult for students to comprehend.
  • repetitious vocabulary tasks such as "Complete the sentences”," Match...”
  • inefficient layout with numerous useless pictures
  • inadequate availability of speaking exercises
  • outdated illustrations and topics
  • unavailability of progress test in the end of the Unit.

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ECTS Users Guide

  • Building programmes
  • Assigning learning outcomes
  • Workload
  • Assessments
  • Credit recognition
  • Documentation, etc.

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�Building programmes

  • Course “Introduction to Cosmology”:
    • It is an introductory course to Cosmology
    • 3 credits (108 hours)
    • Obligatory for the master students of the first year of study of the Master Program "Gravitation, Cosmology and Relativistic Astrophysics"
    • Around 10-15 students in total

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Assigning learning outcomes

After completing this course:

you will be able to define

  1. general stages of the Universe evolution
  2. kinematic of expanding Universe
  3. basic equations of the dynamics of a homogeneous Universe (Friedmann equations)
  4. expansion of the Universe at the radiation-dominated stage
  5. the stage of domination of nonrelativistic matter and the stage of domination of dark energy
  6. lifetime of the Universe
  7. cosmological horizon, the event horizon in de Sitter space
  8. energy balance in the real universe;

you will know how to describe eras of changing expansion modes;

you will be able to solve and analyze the Friedmann equations for different stages of the Universe evolution.

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�Workload

  • Total duration (including lectures, seminars, consultations, exams): 108 hrs
  • The teaching load: �One 1,5 hr lecture every other week for all the students �One 1,5 hr seminar every other week for all the students

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�Assessments

  • The final grade is determined by an overall assessment of 2 exams

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  • Grading: 30% final written exam
  • 70% final oral exam

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  • Final written exam
  • A score of 15 - 30 points at the written exam is considered a threshold to be admitted to the final oral exam.
  • Final oral exam

Once the threshold is passed, the oral exam  counts 50% in the grade assessment

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�Assessments

Students are assessed based on their ability to understand the main ideas of the course and employ them to solve specific problems.

In the written exam (3 hours, 2 problems), students are expected to demonstrate their ability to find correct answers to a typical series of three questions per problem.

During the oral exam (90 min) students are expected to demonstrate their ability to put into practice and to execute, with critical awareness, the most important physics laws discussed in the course.

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