From 2018

This course is designed for second-year English-majored students in order to provide them with fundamental knowledge of cultures in general and Vietnamese culture in particular, especially the unique features t

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 

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.

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.