The course provides students with the concepts of entrepreneurship, the nature and scope of entrepreneurship. It also enables students to understand the impact of entrepreneurship on market economies. The course covers the stages of the entrepreneurial process and the resources needed for the successful development of entrepreneurial ventures. Students have the opportunity to develop personal creativity and entrepreneurial initiative.

The course provides learners with the basic and practical knowledge of human resource management in businesses and organizations. Topics include organizational strategies and human resource management, staff planning, recruitment and human resource selection, job performance evaluation, human resource training and development, salaries and benefits, employment relations and new trends in human resource management.

The course is designed to outline the theory about intercultural communication as well as its fundamental principles in practice in international trading environment. With integrated thinking, the course includes basic topics, such as cultural values and solid impression, the pride, its value and its relations; impacts of culture on  verbal and non-verbal communication; intercultural negotiation in business; intercultural negotiation in writing version; intercultural formality and procedure in business; intercultural morality, intercultural competency in business.

The course is designed for English-majored students to obtain listening and speaking skills at intermediate level (B1+). To be more specific, students can achieve listening-speaking strategies (getting main ideas and details) and can comprehend common themes of work, school, entertainment, hobbies, experience description, dream, etc. and then discuss, give reasons as well as explain ideas about the given topics. Moreover, students can broaden their general knowledge and pool of vocabulary through units. Furthermore, academic skills, such as inferring, summarizing, giving presentation, group-work, test-taking are emphasized during in-class activities to develop learners’ critical thinking and study skills.

This course is designed for English majored students to achieve intermediate level (equivalent to B1 – CEFR) in reading. The meaning of new English vocabulary provided before main readings is inferred from examples or paragraphs; the students, thus, can develop their guessing the meaning of new words through various contexts. Distinct tasks of the vocabulary skills also help them acquire much more vocabulary after the reading process. In addition, with a variety of reading tasks, the students are taught skills of reading for gist and details and the skill of speed reading by using the “keyword’’ technique. Moreover, they learn to use charts and graphs for reading texts faster and more efficiently. Last but not least, the students can enhance their critical thinking, creativity, and inferences.