Compulsory

This course is designed for English majored students to achieve upper-intermediate level (equivalent to B2 – CEFR) in writing. The course aims to help students get acquainted with organization and components of an essay through understanding the structure of a paragraph as well as similarities between a paragraph and an essay. Besides, students will be introduced to practical and efficient approaches to acquire the skills, strategies, language and knowledge that are necessary for succeeding in writing essay types such as Descriptive Essay, Comparison Essay, Cause and Effect Essay, and Classification Essay. Students are also given opportunities to discuss their ideas and share their experiences, which helps not only improve their writing skills but also obtain some necessary academic skills to promote learner’s autonomy, critical thinking, presentation skills and teamwork skills which are essential tools for their college success.

This course is designed for English majored students to achieve pre-intermediate level to low intermediate level (equivalent to A2+ to B1­-– CEFR) in writing. The course provides students with practice in writing good sentences and different types of paragraphs. With regard to good sentence writing, students are given ample practice in sentence structures, grammar issue, capitalization and punctuation which are related to sentence skills in order to help students avoid common sentence problems and build sentences in a logical and grammatically correct manner. With regard to paragraph writing, each unit enables students to fully understand the organization of a complete paragraph, which consists of a topic sentence, supporting sentences and a concluding sentence.

This course is designed to provide second-year English-majored students with basic and systematic knowledge of the history of major ancient and medieval civilizations such as Egypt, India, Chinese 

This is an advanced course for research assessing and reporting in the area of Business English. It supports students to acquire research literacy, particularly the principles of qualitative and quantitative research methodologies. Students are introduced to various research genres and required to evaluate actual research studies. They need to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of different research models employed in specific situations and other possible alternatives. Hands-on experience of research procedure within practical scenarios is also provided throughout the course for students to flexibly utilize and appropriately justify a research model for their research. The course provides a comprehensive overview of research paradigms for different methodologies, including narrative, ethnography, case study, and correlational study, and experimental research.