This obligatory course aims to provide the students with basic strategies of critical reading of academic texts and of writing an integrative and coherent academic paper. It will address these issues both in terms of the subject matter of the texts under discussion and the correct and well rationalized employment of citations, references, notes, bibliographical notations etc.

The course is based on intensive reading and writing exercises.

Course requirements:

• Presence in weekly class meetings.
• Reading of required texts throughout the semester.
• Preparation of weekly assignments, including responses in the course web-site.

Final grade calculation:

60% - average grade on all weekly assignments, which must be submitted on time.

40% - grade of final paper.