Course detail

English for Life 1

FEKT-MKC-EFE1Acad. year: 2026/2027

Language Skills:

    • Mechanical and Physical Properties of Materials: A Functional Overview
    • Idioms: Business, Innovations, General
    • Numbers, Maths, and Geometry
    • English versus Czenglish

Speaking Skills:

    • From Components to Innovation: Analysing and Innovating (Electrical) Devices
    • Transhumanism: Human Enhancement, Designer Babies
    • The Mind and the Machine: Comparing Cognitive and Digital Memory
    • Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: Who Decides What is Right?
    • Free Will in a Predictive World: Autonomy in the Era of AI and Big Data
    • Technological Augmentation: Refining the Human Experience
    • Post-Capitalism: Anarcho-Capitalism as Thinking beyond Systems

 

 

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

2

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

M. A. Kenneth Froehling

Department

Department of Foreign Languages (UJAZ)

Entry knowledge

The fundamental prerequisite consists of a good command of English as defined by the current XAN4 exam.
Students wishing to take the course exam and obtain their credits are required to attend a minimum of 75% of the tutorials/lectures.

Note 1: Students who have a bachelor degree in English in Electrical Engineering and Informatics (AJEI-H) must register MPC-EFE1 or MKC/EFE1. However, such students will automatically receive their credits and are not required to attend classes or to take any tests or exams that other MPC-EFE1/MKC-EFE1 students must take.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Classified Credit: 100 p.

Roundtable  20 p.

Final Test 80 p.

 

To pass the course, students must achieve a minimum of 50% of the available points in each assessment component.

Students are entitled to one resit.

 

Aims

The development of knowledge and skills related to both the general and professional use of English.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

R. MacNeil and W. Cran, Do You Speak American? 2007 (EN)

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Elearning

eLearning: currently opened course

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme MPC-TIT Master's 0 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional
  • Programme MPC-EVM Master's 0 year of study, winter semester, compulsory-optional

Type of course unit

 

Language exercise

26 hours, compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

M. A. Kenneth Froehling

Syllabus

 

Elearning

eLearning: currently opened course