English 101
Intermediate

Overview

This study program is to provide learners with comprehensive knowledge about information technology in terms of computer, operating system, hardware, software, data transmission, computer network, multi-media, network safety and data rity. In addition, this course aims at enhancing ners’ English communication ability in technical contexts and offering learners opportunities to develop translation and interpretation skills which are of neccessity for their future career.

Basic knowledge about language terms relevant to information technology in terms of computer, operating system, hard ware, soft ware, data transmission, computer network, multi-media, network safety and data security.

Objective

Basic knowledge about language terms relevant to information technology in terms of computer, operating system, hard ware, soft ware, data transmission, computer network, multi-media, network safety and data security.

Outcomes

• Explain a number of basic terminologies used in Information Technology
• Identify features and applications of computer components and classify them
• Identify regulations, general operating processes of some common software

Objective learner

• Learners majoring in IT with needs to advance their technical English skills in order to comprehend and interprete related materials
• Developers working in the technology sectors with needs to converse fluently with foreign partners, work in multinational companies and facilitate career advancement
• Non-IT majored individuals demands to have additional understanding about technical English or intending to shift their expertise to technology field

Program Highlights

• International curriculum
• Provides practical skills
• Improve communication skills
• Broaden understanding about technical terms
• Have comprehensive ability in using profession’s materials in English

Assessment method

• Multiple choice
  • Demonstrates knowledge of important content on an exam
  • Shows analysis, application, synthesis, and evaluation capabilities

• Written work
  • Demonstrates knowledge of important content on an exam
    or in a paper
  • Shows analysis, application, synthesis, and evaluation
    capabilities
  • Displays writing skills
  • Produces reflections on what, how, when, and why they
    learned