Wrocław, Poland

English for Knowledge, Culture and Innovation

Bachelor's
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⇑English for Knowledge, Culture and Innovation at UWr

Language: EnglishStudies in English
Subject area: languages
Kind of studies: full-time studies
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University website: uni.wroc.pl/en/

⇑Test: Is English for Knowledge, Culture and Innovation the right fit for you?

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10 questions · two minutes

1. You read about a new technology, such as AI-generated art. What’s your reaction?

2. How do you feel about writing a popular-science article that explains a complex idea to a wide audience?

3. How do you approach books, films and media in English?

4. You’re invited to help organise a cultural event with interactive digital elements. How do you respond?

5. How do you feel about tools such as text corpora, machine translation and AI writing assistants?

6. You’ll study in English in an international group, sharing different cultural perspectives in class. How does that sound?

7. Your team needs a summary of a long academic article in English. What do you do?

8. A start-up asks for help naming its product and telling its story to English-speaking customers. How do you feel?

9. Which future role sounds most like you?

10. What motivates you most to study English for Knowledge, Culture and Innovation?

⇑Definitions and quotes

Culture
Culture () is the social behavior and norms found in human societies. Culture is considered a central concept in anthropology, encompassing the range of phenomena that are transmitted through social learning in human societies. Some aspects of human behavior, social practices such as culture, expressive forms such as art, music, dance, ritual, religion, and technologies such as tool usage, cooking, shelter, and clothing are said to be cultural universals, found in all human societies. The concept of material culture covers the physical expressions of culture, such as technology, architecture and art, whereas the immaterial aspects of culture such as principles of social organization (including practices of political organization and social institutions), mythology, philosophy, literature (both written and oral), and science comprise the intangible cultural heritage of a society.
Innovation
Innovation can be defined simply as a "new idea, device or method". However, innovation is often also viewed as the application of better solutions that meet new requirements, unarticulated needs, or existing market needs. Such innovation takes place through the provision of more-effective products, processes, services, technologies, or business models that are made available to markets, governments and society. The term "innovation" can be defined as something original and more effective and, as a consequence, new, that "breaks into" the market or society. Innovation is related to, but not the same as, invention, as innovation is more apt to involve the practical implementation of an invention (i.e. new/improved ability) to make a meaningful impact in the market or society, and not all innovations require an invention. Innovation often manifests itself via the engineering process, when the problem being solved is of a technical or scientific nature. The opposite of innovation is exnovation.
Knowledge
Knowledge is a familiarity, awareness, or understanding of someone or something, such as facts, information, descriptions, or skills, which is acquired through experience or education by perceiving, discovering, or learning.
Knowledge
Various attempts have been made in recent years to state necessary and sufficient conditions for someone's knowing a given proposition. The attempts have often been such that they can be stated in a form similar to the following:
(a) S knows that P IFF (i) P is true, (ii) S believes that P, and (iii) S is justified in believing that P.
... These ... examples show that definition (a) does not state a sufficient condition for someone's knowing a given proposition.
Edmund L. Gettier, "Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?", Analysis, Vol. 23, No. 6 (Jun., 1963)
Knowledge
Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
Horace Mann, Lectures and Reports on Education, Lecture I. Quote reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 419-23.
Innovation
Defined simply, innovation is, of course, the introduction of something new. We presume that the purpose of introducing something new into a process is to bring about major, radical change. Process innovation combines a structure for doing work with an orientation to visible and dramatic results. It involves stepping back from a process to inquire into its overall business objective, and then effecting creative and radical change to realize order-of-magnitude improvements in the way that objective is accomplished.
Thomas H. Davenport, Process Innovation: Reengineering Work through Information Technology, Harvard Business School Press (1993).
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