Compulsory

This course is designed for English majored students to achieve high upper-intermediate level (equivalent to B2+ – CEFR) in writing. This course provides students with a practical and efficient approach to acquire critical writing skills. For students involved in the academic world, the ability to write critically is crucial as it enables students to raise their voice and shapes their critical thinking. This in turn has a profound effect on their ability to conduct secondary research and write academic papers, which is one of the most essential skills that university students need to develop. The course, therefore, aims to develop students’ language competences required at advanced level. Lastly, the course equips students with soft skills namely presentation skill, interpersonal skill, teamwork skill and ability to work independently.

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.

Due to the rapid development of smart devices, a number of applications have been exploding. The demand for popularizing these applications to users worldwide is increasing. However, with cultural differences, languages of those applications need to be customized to suit users of diverse markets. To meet this demand, the course of IT translation is designed to provide Translation and Interpretation students with background knowledge and terminology of information technology. Based on this platform, learners will be accommodated with translation techniques of documents, software applications, hardware and software manuals, etc.