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This course is designed for second-year university students in order to provide them with fundamental knowledge about Cultures in general and Vietnamese culture in particular, especially the original values through which our international fellows can distinguish between Vietnamese culture and those from East-Southern Asian regions and all over the world. 

After this course, students can understand the basic characteristics along with the cores of traditional and modern Vietnamese cultures. Also, they can self-navigate in the recent multi-form and multi-direction information world as well as the time when globalization and internationalization are taking place progressively in various fields, including cultures. Subsequently, students would be able to selectively obtain the essences of humanity on the basis of integration, not fusion.

The course is designed for the second-year English majored students in the fourth semester  aiming at enhancing the Japanese ability of students who have finished Japanese 1 course. This course fosters students’ ability to communicate in Japanese at elementary level. The course also provides the students with familiar topics related to house, time, hobby, etc.

Writing 4 Course aims to help second-year English majors to obtain academic writing skills at an upper-intermediate level (equivalent to B2 - CEFR). Specifically, students are guided to structure a five-paragraph essay in both unity and coherence. Emphasis is placed on composing fully-developed and well-organized five-paragraph essays related to current social topics, focusing on three main types: cause - effect analysis, problem-solution and argumentation. Through all stages of the writing process as well as peer/group feedback and discussion, students will also have a chance to enhance self-study, teamwork and communication skills.

This course is designed to provide students with talks and lectures about academic and social and natural science topics, and opportunities to discuss/debate follow-up issues. Simultaneously, they can sharpen their critical thinking skills which help them to reason, analyze, synthesize, evaluate, debate, and solve problems. Besides, they have a chance to widen their knowledge of advanced vocabulary, pronunciation, and functional language, which can be used to enhance their English accuracy and fluency in group discussions, debates, informative presentations, proposal presentations, persuasive presentations, negotiations, and conflict management. The course also helps improve such important study skills as working in groups, note-taking, and comprehending long lectures, as well as test-taking skills. Moreover, students’ awareness of the significance of critical thinking skills is also developed during the course