English language
Academic English Language Preparation follows from language education at secondary schools and is focused on pharmaceutical and medical terminology, preparing students to handle communication situations during their studies and in their future profession.
BACHELOR´S DEGREE STUDY
In the Slovak Bachelor´s Degree Study Programme, English is taught throughout three semesters:
Academic English Language Preparation (1) – obligatory course
Academic English Language Preparation (2) – obligatory elective course
Academic English Language Preparation (3) – obligatory elective course
MASTER´S DEGREE STUDY
In both Slovak and English Master´s Degree Study Programmes, English is taught throughout five semesters. These specialised professional seminars align closely with the thematic content of the core courses. Therefore, it is recommended that these seminars be taken sequentially, starting in the second and continuing through the sixth semester, to provide a clear and supportive learning path.
Academic English Language Preparation (1) – obligatory elective course
Academic English Language Preparation (2) – obligatory elective course
Academic English Language Preparation (3) – elective course
Academic English Language Preparation (4) – elective course
Academic English Language Preparation (5) – elective course
DOCTORAL STUDY
The Department of Languages guides and supports the students during their doctoral studies. The Department of Languages provides an English language entrance examination and individual or group consultations as preparation for the examination, which is an integral part of the doctoral study programme.
Doctoral studies at the Faculty of Pharmacy, Comenius University Bratislava, are carried out for credit according to the student´s study plan drawn up by the supervisor. According to this study plan, a doctoral student is required to take the course English Language and a Foreign Language Exam during the first year. The student will agree on the examination date individually with the examiner. In contrast, the approximate date on which the doctoral student is to take the exam is indicated in the individual plan of the doctoral student.
Preparation for the exam takes place in the form of individual or group consultations. Students are informed about the date of consultations by e-mail. The thematic basis for preparing for the exam is the study materials students use during their full-time Master´s Degree studies. At the same time, we focus on discussing the given topic and its expansion by other knowledge that the students have acquired in their further studies or that they will purposefully prepare for the given topic. Much attention at this level of study is devoted to professional texts with an emphasis on the most frequently occurring grammatical specifics of English professional text.
The exam itself is designed to be fair and comprehensive, consisting of two parts, written and oral.
Written part:
- a test focused on grammar and language structure (correct use of English grammatical tenses, transformation of sentences, creation of parts of speech, correction of errors in the given text);
- questions of a popular-scientific nature, while selecting questions that consider the professional focus of the doctoral studies.
Oral part:
- is based on the topic of the doctoral student´s dissertation. At the same time, the examiner asks, e.g. the current state of knowledge on the given topic, possibilities of solving the given issue, possibilities of cooperation with other workplaces, systematic approach to the given topic, state of development, own contribution to the given issue, topicality of the chosen topic, contribution to the further development of science, pursued goal and more.