Course Title

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

Course Code

REME430838

Credit

3

Program Level

Overview

This is a foundational course for research conducting and reporting in the area of EFL education. Students are exposed to popular genres of research publications and a thorough procedure of conducting research. They need to come up with a research objective, review relevant literature, design instruments, plan the data collection procedure, predict the findings, and make concrete conclusions. Students have an opportunity to sharpen their skills in proposal writing, data analysis planning, research ethics considering, and academic conventions observing. Other relevant skills to prepare for early-career researchers are also included. The course fosters students’ capability of independence in research activities to facilitate their learning quality and research motivation.

Course Title

FUNDAMENTALS OF VIETNAMESE CULTURE

Course Code

CSVH230338

Credit

3

Program Level

Overview

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.

Course Title

GENERAL LINGUISTICS

Course Code

DLNN230238

Credit

3

Program Level

Overview

This course is designed for second-year English-majored university students and aims at equipping them with fundamental knowledge about the nature of human languages; the relationship between language and culture; basic understandings related to grammar, phonetics, lexicon, semantics and pragmatics. As a result, students can actively implement this knowledge to have further insights into learning and research about their mother tongue as well as their major or minor language.

In addition, this course also focuses on helping students shape and consolidate several active learning skills such as researching, public speaking and teamwork.

Course Title

VIETNAMESE PRACTICE

Course Code

TVTH230138

Credit

3

Program Level

Program

Overview

This course is designed for the first and second-year English-majored students in order to equip them with basic understanding about the history, development process and characteristics of the Vietnamese language; to help them consolidate and strengthen Vietnamese language skills in five primary aspects, which are spelling, lexicon, grammar, styles and texts. From that, students can actively use the mother tongue in an appropriate manner for the purposes of learning and researching, as well as contributing to maintaining the purity and richness of the Vietnamese language. In addition, this course also helps students shape and consolidate active learning skills such as researching, public speaking and teamwork.