Read Appendix 2 on Cognitive map. Find out how easy it is to retell the text if you base your retelling on its cognitive map. Discuss it in the classroom.

1Ñ 2.4. Read the texts, draw cognitive maps for them and render the texts with the help of the cognitive maps build by you.

№ 1. In Middle ages with the help of the word ‘ universitas’ (in Latin “sets of universus” that is holistic combination of many) different communities were called, such as comradeships, merchants‘ guilds, trade-production shops etc. On analogy other newly appearing communities, such as open schools started to be called ‘ universitas magistrorum et sholarium’ (as corporation of teachers and students); and only with time the educational establishments started to be called u. First ‘ studium ’ school, then ‘ stadium generale ’ or general school; the attribute ‘ generale ’ pointed out at international character of the educational establishment; later the term started to mean the curriculum of higher schools which unite the whole set of sciences (‘ universitas literarum ’).

 

(From “Russian higher school: on the way to new institutions”

by S.A. Smirnov in: http://www.antropolog.ru/doc/persons/smirnov/smirnov17)

№ 2. University institution of higher education, usually comprising a liberal arts and sciences college and graduate and professional schools and having the authority to confer degrees in various fields of study. A university differs from a college in that it is usually larger, has a broader curriculum, and offers graduate and professional degrees in addition to undergraduate degrees.

 

 

Ž Reading charts and tables

“ Chart is -

· a simple outline map on which information can be plotted or written.

· a sheet giving information in the form of diagrams, tables and illustrations.”

 

“ Table is -

· a compact, systematic list of details, contents, etc.; hence

· a compact arrangement of related facts, figures, values, etc. in orderly sequence, and usually in rows and columns, for convenience of reference: as, the multiplication table.”

(Webster’s New World of the American language)

 

Ñ 3.1. Read the charts presented below (1) the structure of Vilnius University, (2) the structure of the Belarusian State University, (3) Faculty structure. Draw your own сhart on 4 level structure of the university as a higher educational establishment.

RECTOR (Rector’s office)

Vice-rector on hospitals and clinics

Staff Administration

Finance Administration

Vice-rector on administrative affairs

Department of Strategic Development

Vice-rectoron science

Vice-rector on Academic Affairs

Vice-rector for strategic development

Academic Administration Program

Department of Science

Department of Information & Public Relations

Department of International Relations & Programs

Department of Internal Audit

Department of Public

Department of dormitories and apartments

Administrative affairs Administration

Legal Affairs Administration

Department of Doctoral Studies

Chart 1. The structure of Vilnius University

Chart 2. The structure of the Belarusian State University

Chart 3. Faculty structure

1 3.2. Using your chart as a semantic map (see Appendix 3) and charts 1-3 as Vocabulary map retell who work and study at the university.

3.3. Examine Chart 4 and comment on a possible career of a student, if one chooses the academic field. Use the following structure in your comments:

If a student

continues writes defends …

}

…,

s/he’ll

get become …

}

…

TEACHING CAREER

Professor

Professor

Professor

Associate professor

Lecturer

Lecturer/assistant

RESEARCH CAREER

Correspondent member of the Academy of Sciences

Doctor of Sciences (habilitated) /Full professor

PhD / Candidate of Sciences

Master of Arts/Science

Bachelor

Academician

Chart 4. Academic Career

² 3.4. Listen to and repeat after the speaker the names of sciences registered by academician structures (Table 1) and fill the right column of the table with the names of the faculties at which these sciences are being studied at your university

Table 1.

Codes – names of sciences

Names of faculties

01.00.00 – Physical and mathematical, sciences; 02.00.00 – Chemical sciences; 03.00.00 – Biological sciences; 05.00.00 – Technical sciences 06.00.00 – Agricultural sciences 07.00.00 – Historical sciences 08.00.00 – Economic sciences 09.00.00 – Philosophical sciences 10.00.00 – Philological sciences 12.00.00 – Juridical sciences 13.00.00 – Pedagogical sciences 14.00.00 – Medical sciences 15.00.00 – Pharmaceutical sciences 16.00.00 – Veterinary sciences 17.00.00 – Art criticism 18.00.00 – Architecture 19.00.00 – Psychological sciences 22.00.00 – Sociological sciences 23.00.00 – Political sciences 24.00.00 – Cultural studies 25.00.00 – Earth sciences