2.2. Render the text without trying to learn it by heart. Are you happy with the result of your rendering?

2.3. Read Appendix 2 on Cognitive map. Find out how easy it is to retell the text if you base your retelling on its cognitive map. Discuss it in the classroom.

 2.4. Read the texts, draw cognitive maps for them and render the texts with the help of the cognitive maps build by you.

№ 1. In Middle ages with the help of the word ‘universitas’ (in Latin “sets of universus” that is holistic combination of many) different communities were called, such as comradeships, merchants‘ guilds, trade-production shops etc. On analogy other newly appearing communities, such as open schools started to be called ‘universitas magistrorum et sholarium’ (as corporation of teachers and students); and only with time the educational establishments started to be called u. First ‘studium’ school, then ‘stadium generale’ or general school; the attribute ‘generale’ pointed out at international character of the educational establishment; later the term started to mean the curriculum of higher schools which unite the whole set of sciences (‘universitas literarum’).

(From “Russian higher school: on the way to new institutions”

by S.A. Smirnov in: http://www.antropolog.ru/doc/persons/smirnov/smirnov17)

№ 2. University institution of higher education, usually comprising a liberal arts and sciences college and graduate and professional schools and having the authority to confer degrees in various fields of study. A university differs from a college in that it is usually larger, has a broader curriculum, and offers graduate and professional degrees in addition to undergraduate degrees.

 Reading charts and tables

“Chart is -

a simple outline map on which information can be plotted or written.
a sheet giving information in the form of diagrams, tables and illustrations.”

“Table is -

a compact, systematic list of details, contents, etc.; hence
a compact arrangement of related facts, figures, values, etc. in orderly sequence, and usually in rows and columns, for convenience of reference: as, the multiplication table.”

(Webster’s New World of the American language)

3.1. Read the charts presented below (1) the structure of Vilnius University, (2) the structure of the Belarusian State University, (3) Faculty structure. Draw your own сhart on 4 level structure of the university as a higher educational establishment.