DENIS SASSOU N’GUESSO UNIVERSITY

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FACULTY OF APPLIED SCIENCES
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ENGLISH LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT
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ECUE:
TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL ENGLISH

Level: Licence 3
Options: Mathematics / Biology/ Physics/ Chemistry

Time Allowed:

Pedagogical Team :

Pr Alphonse Dorien MAKOSSO

Dr Mexan Serge EPOUNDA
Dr Léa Blandine MBOUILOU NDOULOU
Dr Simplice Eloge MOUMBOUILOU

Academic year: 2023 – 2024

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 General Objectives: The main objective of the lecture designed to students at this level of
the university curricula is twofold:
✓ To reinforce Linguistic acquisitions so as to help them use English communicatively
in personal and professional situations.
✓ To make them familiar with the jargon of their professional sphere so as to facilitate
their integration in a more and more English demanding world.
Competence required: A student at this level of the university curricula should at least:
✓ Have a good command of the fundamentals of the English Grammar and Language.
✓ Have a capacity of understanding and analysing documents written in English.
✓ Be able to express communicatively (Oral and written skills)

GENERAL OUTLINE
I. PHYSICS

5th Semester 1- Letter Writing (a sample of an Application Letter + C.V.)

(Pure Physics/ Renewable 2- Motivation Letter
Energy) 3- Writing a composition
4- Coping with Job Interview
5- Oral Presentations on (Pure Physics/ Renewable Energy)

II. CHEMISTRY
1-Letter Writing (a sample of an Application Letter + C.V.)
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5 Semester 2- Motivation Letter
(CMP/CAQ/CIN/CEN) 3- Writing a composition
4- Coping with a Job Interview
5- Oral Presentations on (CMP/CAQ/CIN/CEN)

III. BIOLOGY
1- Letter Writing (a sample of an Application Letter + C.V.)
th
5 Semester 2- Motivation Letter
(MIB/BVE/BEN/BCM) 3- Writing a composition
4- Coping with a Job Interview
5- Oral Presentations on (MIB/BVE/BEN/BCM)

IV. MATHEMATICS
1-Letter Writing (a sample of an Application Letter + C.V.)
th
5 Semester 2- Motivation Letter
(Big Data/S.R.I./MIAGE) 3- Writing a composition
4- Coping with a Job Interview
5- Oral Presentations about (Big Data/S.R.I./MIAGE)

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 ENGLISH LECTURE
PART ONE: COMMON LECTURES: LETTER WRITING
Lesson One: Application Letter
Lesson Two: Motivation Letter
Lesson Three: Writing a Curriculum Vitae (CV) or Data Sheet (DS)
Lesson Four: Writing Composition
Lesson Five: Coping with a Job Interview

PART TWO: OPTIONAL LECTURES (ORAL PRESENTATION)

Option: PHYSICS
Topics for Exposés

P.H.P: Pure Physics E.N.R: Renewable Energy T.E.N: Nuclear Technology

✓ Pillars Of Physics ✓ Bioenergy ✓ Different types of nuclear
technology
✓ Hardest Branch of Physics ✓ Hydrogen fuel cells ✓ Different uses for nuclear
technology
✓ The Five Principles of ✓ Wind ✓ Five types of nuclear power
Physics plant
✓ Geothermal ✓ The New Nuclear
Technology
✓ Solar

Option: BIOLOGY
Topics for Exposés
B.E.N: Environmental Biology B.V.E: Plant Biotechnology
✓ Biodiversity and Conservation ✓ Aquatic Photosynthetic Organisms
✓ Biological Invasions ✓ Crop And Product Physiology
✓ Ecosystems Ecology ✓ Functional Plant Ecology
✓ Environmental Pollution ✓ Photosynthesis And Photobiology
✓ Food Webs

M.I.B: Applied Microbiology B.A.N: Food Biotechnology and Nutrition

✓ Antimicrobial Resistance ✓ Animal And Plant Nutrition
✓ Environmental Microbiology ✓ Bacterial Diseases of Plants
✓ Pathogenicity And Virulence ✓ Bio nanoscience

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 ✓ Food Microbiology ✓ Dietary Intake
✓ Eating Disorders
✓ Epidemiology Of Plant Diseases

Option: MATHEMATICS
Topics for Exposés

Big Data S.R.I: Computer Network M.I.A.G.E: Computer

Security Methods Applied to
Business Management
✓ Big data and information ✓ Types of Network Security ✓ Business management and
Protections; administration
✓ Big data and methods ✓ auditing in Network Security ✓ Computing for business
and management
✓ Big data and technology ✓ Information technology
with management)

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Douglas, D. (2000). Assessing Languages for Specific Purposes Cambridge: UK.Cambridge
University Press.
Lynette Beardwood, Hugh Templeton, Martin Webber. (1978). A First Course in Technical
English, London: Heinemann educational Books.
Mémet, M. et M. Petit(dir). (2001). L’anglais de spécialité en France Mélanges. Bordeaux,
Editions du GERAS.
New on Target 1ère, Paris: Edition Berlin, 2011.
quora.com/what-is-urbanism-and-how-does-it-differ-from-urban-design. Accessible on 22
August 2023.
Raymond Murphy. (2004). English Grammar in Use. Cambridge University press, 3ème
Edition Legogroup.
sociologydiscussion.com/urbanism-as-a-way-of-life-concept-and-characteristics/2619.
Accessible on 23 August 2023.
Steve Elsworth. (1990). Count Me In: Understanding Numbers in English, London:
Longman, Eighth Impression.
Tom Hutchinson and Alan. (1989). Waters, Interface: English for Technical
Communication, London: Longman, sixth Impression.

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https://en.wikipedia.org-wiki-urbanism. Accessible on 22 August 2023.
https://www.britannica.com/science/science.
https://www.scrip.org/journal/articles.aspx?
mailto:mathematics@lancaster.ac.uk
https://www.lancaster.ac.uk./maths/
https://www.scrip.org/journal/paperinformation.aspx?
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/malware-and-its-types/