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MU120 - Open Mathematics
- 30 points / 8 credit hours
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This course builds students' confidence and helps them to incorporate mathematical thinking into their everyday life. It looks mathematically at matters of general interest including prices, earnings, health, music, art, maps, motion and rainbows. It develops the key skills of communication as well as students' own learning and performance. Students will cover statistical, graphical, algebraic and numerical concepts and techniques. In addition, they will be introduced to iteration and mathematical modeling, as well as being able to interpret slopes of graphs. Students will also learn how to use a graphing calculator. Formal calculus is not included.
TU170 - Learning On-line: Computing with Confidence
- 10 points / 3 credit hours Read More
This is a 12-week course that provides an introduction to computing and the on-line world. Students learn about software applications such as word processing, databases and electronic mail. They take part in on-line discussions, search the web and author simple web pages using HTML. This course is taught entirely on-line. The total teaching and assessment material is published on the course web site, to which only registered students have access. Students work both individually and in groups with fellow students on collaborative projects, supported by a personal tutor.
Go To WebsiteT171 - You, Your Computer and the Net
- 30 points / 8 credit hours
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How did the PC and the Internet get to their present state? What are the implications of the computer revolution? How does the Internet affect business? This course will help students develop an understanding of the computer industry, the Internet and e-business. It will also help them to use the computer for effective information searching and analysis. They need to be familiar with the Windows™ environment and have some experience of navigating the web. The teaching and assessment for T171 are entirely online.
Go To Website T209 - Information and Communication Technologies: People and Interactions
- 60 points / 16 credit hours Read More
This course develops and enhances key skills while providing students with the knowledge to understand current and future developments in information and communications technologies. The course comprises five independent modules. In Touch and Informed uses mobile telephony, personal digital assistants and the Internet to introduce the basic technology of computers and communications and the means to describe and model such systems. Talking with Computers identifies the central ideas of human technology interaction and, through a combination of software and design tools, enables students to construct speech recognition applications. Network Management provides an overview of how computer networks meet the needs of organizations, both through the deployment of networking components and through the associated management products such as SNMP. A simulation package enables students to design and model network configurations based on the CSMA/CD protocol. Cyborg explores some of the social dimensions and interpretations of our changing relationship with technology. A rich learning resource supports a group project in which students explore their own technologically mediated interactions. Security tackles the concerns posed by the explosive growth of communication systems and the associated issues of authentication, authorization, and repudiation. Simulation software enables students to explore various encryption algorithms, while the latest version of PGP supports experimentation with public/private key systems. The course includes three computer-marked assignments, four single-weighted tutor-marked assignments and one double-weighted group project tutor-marked assignment. An individual project undertaken during the final stages of the course provides the examinable component.
Go To WebsiteMST121 - Using Mathematics
-30 points / 8 credit hours Read More
It covers a broad introduction to the nature of mathematics and its uses in the modern world. This course shows how mathematics can be used to investigate and answer questions from science, technology and everyday life using a range of fundamental techniques, in particular, discrete mathematics (including matrices), calculus and statistics. Use of computer software (MathCAD) is an essential part of the course. The skills of communicating results and defining problems are also developed. This course will give students a complete foundation for higher-level mathematics and physics.
M206 - Computing: An Object- Oriented Approach
-60 points/ 16 credit hours Read More
This course focuses on computing for the next decade covering the fundamentals of modern object and network computing. It's practical approach teaches new ideas and skills, such as analytical techniques that equip students to computer - based solution to real problems. They learn programming using the object - oriented language Smalltalk. This innovative course makes the best use of appropriate media: printed and computer - based materials, television, CD-ROM and Internet.
Go To WebsiteMT262 - Putting Computer Systems to Work
-30 points / 8 credit hours Read More
This course tackles the problem of how to get a computer to do something useful. It sets out to analyze problems and design solutions in such a way that a computer can be used to carry out the solution. The course develops skills in analysis and design, in addition to practical programming in a widely used C++ language, using non-object and object-oriented approaches. It includes elementary work with Windows programming.
Go To WebsiteM301 - Software Systems and Their Development
-60 points / 16 credit hours Read More
This course investigates how large items of software are produced, from analysis through design to implementation and testing. It examines state-of-the-art topics such as Java programming, Unified Modelling Language (UML) for the analysis and design of applications, frameworks and patterns, and studying the principles underlying concurrent systems. Managing the process of developing quality software, human factors and professional issues are also addressed in this course. The course is based on three set books and a case study and includes a significant amount of practical work using the Java Integrated Development Environment and UML Modelling Tool provided with the course.
Go To WebsiteT305 - Digital Communications
-60 points / 16 credit hours Read More
This course is appropriate for anyone with an interest in either telecommunications or data and computer communications, including the Internet. Examples are drawn from both mobile and fixed networks, and topics include: protocols (such as the internet protocols: TCP/IP); network management and reliability; digital representation of sounds and images; routing, switching and signaling; coding and modulation; and high-speed networks. Underpinning these topics include material on modelling, including time and frequency domain models, statistical concepts and the representation of complex systems. This course is set in context by material on the applications and issues of digital communications. There are six computer-marked and seven tutor-marked assignments.
Go To WebsiteCS490 - Selected Topics in Computer Science
-10 points / 3 credit hours Read More
This advanced computing course offers perspectives on relational databases, based on the storage of data as tables. This course begins with an introduction to the use of the databases in information systems, with examples. This is followed by a theory of relations that are applied to the representation of models of data, and practical implementation in the database language SQL. The development of a database system is covered and finally, issues to do with a broader view of relational databases. In addition, topics in Artificial Intelligence, Neural Network and Pattern Recognition will be covered. A project has to be submitted by the student at the end of the course.
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LB160 - Professional Communication Skills for Business Studies
-30 points / 8 credit hours Read More
"Professional communication skills for business studies" (LB160) has been specifically designed for students who want to develop specialized reading and writing skills primarily for business study purposes. The course can also benefit those who are starting out in their business career by highlighting how business studies communication skills can be transferred to the workplace.
It is a level one course and counts as 8 AOU credit hours or 30 OU points. The focus is on written English and topics include areas of human resource management, finance and accounting, marketing and a number of business analysis methods. Online communication with tutor and other students is also an important element of the course. Different styles of writing are introduced and student will learn how to analyze case studies more effectively and to produce successful essays and powerful reports.
LB160 is a practical course with a wide range of activities designed to develop and practice skills in reading and writing for business studies and business. It puts what students have learned and in a highly competitive market, aims to help students acquire the skills that will distinguish them from their peers. The course deepens the knowledge of the business world at the same time as developing written communication skills, helping students succeed in both business studies and business generally.
Professional communication skills for business studies is relevant to a wide range of students who need help in understanding how to communicate effectively, or they may feel that their previous education has not provided them with the skills to write confidently.
BU 130 - Managing in the Work Place
-30 points / 8 credit hours Read More
This is an ideal first course for the students studying business studies or management. This work-based learning course will help students to build a career and give them the skills to improve their performance at work. Most courses are designed around a particular subject (for example, management or marketing) and so provide students with an academic area for learning. It provides students with an opportunity to negotiate their own learning experiences to help them develop an ability to learn and so to improve their practices at work. The course includes the creation of a personal learning contract that the students will develop as their work through the course.
This course develops understanding of students to their own learning, its role and impact in the workplace so as to plan and manage their learning towards the achievement of aims and objectives that fit their career. It enables the students to engage in reflective learning by reflecting on, evaluating and applying experiential learning in their own professional, occupational and workplace contexts. It helps students to focus their learning on important issues in their day to day work. With the help of this course students will be able to communicate arguments, ideas and issues effectively using appropriate styles and language. It also teaches them to read and interpret information presented in a variety of forms and perform relevant tasks for analysis and evaluation. It develops in the students the skills they need for making the most of university.
B120 - An Introduction to Business Studies
-30 points / 8 credit hours Read More
This is level 1 course in Business Studies Program at AOU. It provides core subject knowledge and study skills needed for both higher education and distance learning, to help the students progress to courses at Level 2.
The course B120 consists of five study books: "What is a business?" "An introduction to human resources in business," "an introduction to marketing in business," "an introduction to accounting and finance in business," and "other ways of looking at business."
This course is the first in Business Studies degree and forms the core of the Certificate in Business Studies. It explores the question 'what is a business?' and investigates the business functions of human resource management, marketing, accounting and finance. Different internal and external elements of a business are introduced, and the context in which a business operates explained. Students will explore the common aims and characteristics of business - investigating what makes them different. Business structures, cultures and functions are identified and the political, social, economic, technological and ethical considerations affecting business are introduced. Students will also be encouraged to make use of internet resources.
In addition to improving students employability and awareness of business issues, the course also helps them to develop the necessary skills for studying at more advanced university levels.
B200 - Understanding Business Behavior
-60 points / 16 credit hours Read More
This course explains how businesses are structured, how they work, how their environments influence them, and how they try to control competitive market pressures. Understanding the complexities and uncertainties of all this is not easy, so the course discusses different approaches and ways of seeing organizations and markets. It enables students to evaluate and use information and theories, thus improving their capacity for rigorous assessment. Finally, the course defines and develops three groups of related business skills: study and presentation, IT, and numeracy. Much use is made of computer conferencing for learning and debate between students and dedicated conferencing tutors. Course tutors are expected to participate.
B202 - Understanding Business Functions
-60 points / 16 credit hours Read More
This course develops an understanding of how organizations work through the contributions of five key business functions - human resources, information, marketing, operations, accounting and finance - and how those are integrated. Working with a selection of textbooks, you will look at the key practices of the 'traditional' business functions and the contributions they make to organizations, individually and collectively. Case studies and specially written texts enable you to see the origins, rationale, limitations and strengths of business functions from the perspectives of various stakeholders. You will develop skills in finding and organizing information, preparing simple presentations, and using basic software packages and computer conferencing. The student will need a personal computer and access to the Internet.
B322 - Investigating Entrepreneurial Opportunities
-30 points / 8 credit hours Read More
This course addresses the crucial first steps related to developing new business ideas, implementing innovations and launching new ventures. It will develop business-planning capabilities, skills and understanding, including market and competitor research and the use of important financial concepts such as break-even and cash flow. It will lead the students through a systematic process of testing their ideas and experience to arrive at a business proposition with ambitious yet attainable objectives. The course will help them to focus on their own capabilities and skills in project planning; business project appraisal; report writing; and environmental and personal analysis.
Students will learn to critically assess different aspects of the external environment and of their own resources and capabilities with the aim of establishing and sustaining a profitable new venture. In particular they will learn how to: assess market dynamics, such as competitors’ and suppliers’ strengths and weaknesses or market gaps, in relation to target customers and competitors; identify critical points of competitive advantage and business success with necessary base resources, capabilities and skills needs. The students will also learn to gather primary and secondary information for use in customer segmentation, action planning, cash flow and debt management. They will be able to develop personal and team attributes and capabilities for entrepreneurial success along with the ability to set clear and attainable objectives and sustain self-motivation, focus and persistence. Students will gain command on assessing the feasibility of business propositions.
B300 - Business Behavior in a Changing World
-60 points / 16 credit hours Read More
This course is designed to develop an understanding and knowledge of strategic organizational issues and how organizations respond to change in their environments. The course has three main teaching modules: decision-making, strategy and policy. Students look at how organizations make strategic decisions and consider rationality and routines, decision methods and decision processes. They analyze how organizations develop strategy, notions of core competence and strategic innovation. A range of policy and environmental concepts and cases that demonstrate the impact of the macro-environment on organizations are studied. Students are made aware of the boundaries of strategy in terms of relationships between strategies at the level of the firm, the industry, the nation, the region and globally.
Three groups of related business skills are developed: study and presentation skills, IT and numeracy skills, and computer conferencing for learning and debate. Course tutors are expected to participate.
DD202 - Economics and Changing Economies
-60 points / 16 credit hours Read More
This introduction to economics examines important economic issues of our time and how economists tackle them. It teaches both economic theory and an understanding of changing economies. The course recognizes the increasing integration of the world economy and draws on examples from the UK and other countries. Topics include market competition and cooperation; market structures and firms' decision-making; the state's role in the economy; money and financial markets; European integration; booms and slumps; unemployment and inflation; managements of the national economy; poverty, wealth and redistribution; ecological constraints on growth. The course teaches basic techniques of economic analysis and data analysis.
D319 - Understanding Economic Behavior: Households, Firms and Markets
-60 points / 16 credit hours Read More
This course is designed to be taken after D216 Economics and changing economies. Households, firms, and markets are three of the most important types of institution making up the economy. This course develops a critical understanding of fundamental economic issues relating to these three institutions by using mainstream economic theory and less orthodox interdisciplinary approaches. The course examines the behavior of economic agents by investigating the outcomes of their decisions and introduces ways of trying to model the processes of decision-making as well as the outcomes.
T172 - Working with our environment: technology for a sustainable future
-30 points / 8 credit hours Read More
The course offers a broad, interdisciplinary introduction to the technical, human and social aspects of environmental issues, from local air pollution to global climate change. It considers the role of technology in both contributing to and tackling environmental problems. The emphasis throughout is on achieving a more sustainable future for the populations of industrialized and developing countries. The course uses a resource-based approach that provides the opportunity to learn general skills, such as basic numeracy, critical reading and thinking, writing reports and essays, and studying at a distance. It also introduces some aspects of chemistry, biology, energy, systems and design, that students will need if they go on to higher-level technology, science or environment courses.
The course is presented as a series of four main themes and three files, together with an introduction and conclusion. The themes are:
You and the environment:How individuals affect the environment and how household environmental impacts might be reduced. It includes two practical activities. The first enables you to assess the ‘ecological footprint’ of your household (or another suitable one) and to consider how to reduce it through technical and lifestyle changes. The second assesses the energy efficiency of your home and how its energy consumption could be reduced. You will consider the extent to which household-level changes can tackle global environmental issues.
Travelling light:The effects of personal transport on the environment, and how the transport system could be made sustainable through a combination of technical, behavioral and social changes. You will consider your own transport patterns and how they might become more sustainable.
Food chains:The relationship between the food-purchasing decisions of individual consumers and the sustainability of the food supply in Europe and in the world. You will consider your diet and its implications for your health, the food supply system and the environment, and learn to read critically articles about controversial issues such as the role of genetically modified crops in the food supply.
Thinking globally:The implications for the environment of today's highly interconnected world and the huge gaps between rich and poor countries. For example, you will examine the environmental and other issues raised by developing countries assertion of their 'right to development'.
These themes take you progressively from consideration of personal lifestyles, and their implications for the environment, to more detailed consideration of the global implications of technological and economic development.
(Note: This course has already been replaced by newer course: LB160. New students in Business Studies are no more required to take this course).
T205 - Systems Thinking: Principles and Practice
-30 points / 8 credit hours Read More
T205 helps students make headway with complex situations they meet at work or in the community: 'How could we explore this opportunity?' 'How can I make sense of this situation?' 'How could I improve things?' Students learn to explore issues, identify components, analyze interrelationships, develop an overall understanding, and consider intervention possibilities. Cases include topical environmental, organizational and information technology issues to do with e-commerce, the environment, risk management and social support.
T306 - Managing Complexity: A Systems Approach
-30 points / 8 credit hours Read More
This course is for anyone who wants to learn how to think differently and creatively about complex issues, and to manage them in ways that lead to improvement. We are confronted constantly by images of world as unknowable, random and complex, but are given no means of understanding the complexity or revolving the problems it creates. The systems approach was designed to deal with this. Building on the discontinued course T301 Complexity, management and change, this course applies the most recent and innovative developments in systems thinking to areas such as information systems, organizational change and learning, sustainable development and the environment, and professional practice.
B680 - Certificate in Accounting
-60 points / 16 credit hours Read More
This is a Level 3 course and the skills taught will be specific to the requirements of accounting. This course caters for the students who want a route into the accounting profession, and who need fundamental accountancy skills. Students will investigate the role of accounting in businesses organizations, developing knowledge and understanding of basic financial, cost and management accounting, computerized accounting, systems and spreadsheets. Students will also learn how to prepare accounts for audit and use accounting information for decision-making.
Course contents include: knowledge and understanding of the processes of recording transactions; maintaining accounting records; basic financial, cost and management accounting; computerized accounting, including accounting systems and spreadsheets; role of accounting in business organizations; accounting information for decision making; accounting statements for planning and control; periodic accounting reports; accounting information for planning and control; audit process; legal and regulatory environment; understanding of the business and economic framework; organizational consequences of accounting information; principles of office management; and human resource management.
The course comprises sixteen books, each with accompanying CD-ROM material. The books are arranged in three blocks: Financial Accounting, Management Accounting and Managing Organizations. This course uses an integrated mix of text and CD material and cannot be studied without the CDs. Seventy per cent of the course is accounting and thirty per cent is management.
B631 - Managing
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Designed as a first course in management, this course aims to develop confidence and impact as a not-for-profit manager. It covers the managerial role and shows how an individual can continually develop their competence as a manager. It explains and enables students to use fundamental management processes and techniques in a not-for-profit context. The course then helps them to understand and respond to the environment in which they work, introducing models of organizational culture. It addresses the values and range of stakeholders that affect the role of management in a non-profit context.
(Note: In the latest curriculum, this course has been replaced by a newer one)
B632 - Managing People
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This course covers core people management skills and processes to help managers be more effective with people at work. It considers what explains and motivates people's behavior at work and how the manager's own management style can get the best from colleagues and staff. The course then covers organizational entry: job design, recruitment and induction. It addresses working conflict, or across boundaries within and beyond their own organization or sector. The course concludes by considering how they supervise, appraise and develop staff, and help to change the way they work.
(Note: In the latest curriculum, this course has been replaced by a newer one)
BE 230 - Financial Institutions
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This is an elective course for the students in Business Studies Program. They will take this course in the first year of their study while fulfilling the elective requirements. However, they can postpone it until their 2nd year of study. This course will help students to develop their knowledge of financial Institution as well as its need & importance in the world of business. There are four units in the course: An economic analysis of financial structure; banking and the management of financial institution; banking Industry: structure and competition; and economic analysis of banking regulation.
A healthy and vibrant economy requires a financial system that moves funds from people who save to people who have productive investment opportunities. But how does the financial system make sure that people’s hard-earned savings get channeled; the course answers the question by providing an economic analysis of how our financial structure is designed to promote economic efficiency. The analysis focuses on few simple but powerful economic concepts that enable to explain features of financial system. Finally, the course demonstrates the important link between financial system and the performance of the aggregate economy.
BE 231 - Financial Management
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This is a first level elective course for students in Business Studies Program. However, the students with Accounting Track must take and pass this course.The course provides a basic knowledge of financial management - over all financial management system, role of finance in the business, capital budgeting, cash management and the evaluation of the financial performance of the business.
This course will help students to develop their knowledge of financial management along with its importance and application in the world of business. The course comprises on six basic units: 1) The Role of Financial Management, 2) Mathematics of Finance, 3) Evaluation of Financial Performance, 4) Working-Capital Management, 5) Capital Budgeting, and 6) Financial Structure and Dividend Policy.
At present, almost all the countries are facing change and an uncertain business environment. The course provides an overview of financial management. The orientation is managerial, with an emphasis on the identification and solution of financial challenges and problems confronting the business enterprises. Decision making within an enterprise valuation frame work is stressed throughout the course and is the unifying theme across all discussions. Finally, the course defines an important skill underlying financial decision making which is being able to correctly deal with amounts of money overtime.
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A123 - An Introduction to the Humanities
-60 points / 16 credit hours Read More
A123 is intended to introduce five Humanities disciplines: art, literature, history, philosophy and classical studies. Students will first learn the methodology of each discipline. Then, they work progressively and in more depth on chosen texts from three areas: the classical world, the neoclassical world and the modern world. The expression of prevailing philosophical concepts, which evolve through time in art and literature, is central to the choice of texts.
A210 - Approaching Literature
-60 points / 16 credit hours Read More
This course is a literary study and analysis of the realist novel, romantic writings, as well as Shakespeare and the Canon. It introduces students to a wide range of literary texts from the second half of the sixteenth century through the mid twentieth century, and also prepares them to study literature at a more advanced level.
U210A - The English Language: Past, Present, and Future (Part I)
-30 points / 8 credit hours Read More
This is the first of two connected courses, U210A and U210B. Together, the two courses provide a detailed discussion and presentation of the historical development of English from its early beginnings to the present; the different registers of English; English in a social context; the relationship between English, culture and national identity; the influence of modern technology on English and the way it is used; and economic, cultural, and political issues arising from the spread of English in the world.
U210B - The English Language: Past, Present, and Future (Part II)
-30 points / 8 credit hours Read More
This is the second of two connected courses, U210A and U210B. Together, the two courses provide a detailed discussion and presentation of the historical development of English from its early beginnings to the present; the different registers of English; English in a social context; the relationship between English, culture and national identity; the influence of modern technology on English and the way it is used; and economic, cultural, and political issues arising from the spread of English in the world.
A319 - Literature in the Modern World
-60 points / 16 credit hours Read More
The course aims to introduce students to a wide selection of twentieth-century prose fiction, poems and plays, written chiefly between 1920 and 1990; to develop their grasp of methodological approaches and theoretical issues relevant to the study of literature; to develop their awareness of the relationship between literature and history; to develop students' capabilities in critical analysis and thinking. Upon completing this course, students are expected to identify, analyse and compare narrative and thematic issues in texts as well as to engage critically with a range of theoretical studies and to apply these to readings of the literary texts. The structure of A319 is partly chronological and partly thematic, and the set texts represent three kinds of writing – prose fiction, poetry and drama – beginning in the 1920s and ending in the 1990s. The course is divided into six blocks.
E300 - English Language and Literacy
-60 points / 16 credit hours Read More
The course provides a detailed study of language from a social perspective. It looks at several theoretical approaches to how oral and written English are used for social interaction. Cultural and other aspects of language use are also covered by the course. In general, the course is interdisciplinary in nature. It is aimed at showing how linguists, sociolinguists, anthropologists and educationalists address language and social issues. This is different from many traditional approaches to language, e.g. structuralism, which considered language a separate entity and viewed it in isolation. In addition to sociolinguistics, the course draws on semiotics, textual analysis, media studies and psychology. This entails examining new research work in the aforementioned fields, all in the context of language and literacy. Theoretical definition is coupled with practical application, and the development of a critical appreciation by students of the various approaches studied is one of the major targets of the course.
E303 - English Grammar in Context
-60 points / 16 credit hours Read More
The course is designed for anyone needing an up-to-date framework for describing and analysing the English language as used in the world today. The course provides a range of material to anticipate students' different needs and expectations. It combines grammatical description – based on a hands-on approach which draws on computer analysis – with demonstrations of how such analytical techniques can be applied to real-world data and problems. The course content is designed to be of broad interest: examples are drawn from, amongst other fields, everyday conversation, fiction, academic writing and the news media. The applications of grammar in professional fields such as translation, teaching, lexicography, and the law are also highlighted. In the process of studying grammar in this way, students can expect to improve their own communicative effectiveness, including their academic writing, and to become a more discriminating reader of other people’s texts. |
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EL 097 - Beginner English Language Course Read More
EL 097 course is the first course of the Intensive English Language Preparatory Program. It is a foundation level for adult and young adult absolute beginners who score 0-30 in the placement test. It is also designed for students who were taught a little English, perhaps some years a go, but who don’t yet feel confident enough to move on. They want to go aback before they move. The objective of this course is to introduce gradually and methodically measured amounts of all language skills in logical order.
Students taking this course are required to complete 280 hours: 140 face-to-face interactive hours inside classrooms, and 140 hours are done as extensive exercises and supplementary material via the Internet while at home or at work. Carefully selected vocabulary and grammar are taught at this level. Additionally, there are many controlled practice activities which give the beginners the confidence to proceed, but there is also some simple skill work which incorporates manageable communicative activities appropriate for the lower lever. Social and functional language and survival skills are also dealt with.
Upon passing the course, students who meet the conditions are awarded certificates to this effect.
EL 098 - Elementary English Language Course Read More
EL 098 is the second English language course of the Intensive English Language Preparatory Program for adult and young false and true beginners who score 31- 45 in the placement test, or have passed the EL 097 course. The objective of this course is to provide the foundations in the structure of language, and to gradually build the students’ understanding of the basic grammar, vocabulary and functions of English.
Students taking this course are required to complete 280 hours: 140 face-to-face interactive hours inside classrooms, and 140 hours are done as extensive exercises and supplementary material via the Internet while at home or at work. The methodology of teaching this course concentrates on integrating all four skills in every unit through the practice of controlled and free tasks. The skills work comes from a wide range of material - newspapers, magazines, biographies, short stories, radio programs, and songs - and features both British and American English.
Upon passing the course, students who meet the conditions are awarded certificates to this effect.
EL 099 - Pre-Intermediate English Language Course Read More
This is the third course of the Intensive English Language Preparatory Program for students who have successfully completed the beginner and elementary courses, or score 46-54 in the placement test. The main objective of this course is to develop the four language skills: reading, and writing, speaking and listening. Students are expected to increase their usage of vocabulary and improve their grammar. Also, they will learn to write formal and informal letters, paragraphs using linking words and relative clause, book review, and post cards. In addition to that, they will learn how to express themselves using English expressions for dealing with everyday situations such as social situations, shopping, answering a telephone, personal plans, and life styles. Students of this course will be able to converse with acceptable fluency.
Students who enroll in this course are required to study 280 hours in one semester: 140 face-to-face interactive hours inside classrooms, and 140 hours as extensive exercises and supplementary material via the Internet. Throughout the course period, students are taught all skills presented in thematic units comprising grammar, vocabulary, reading, listening, speaking and writing.
Upon passing the course, students who meet the conditions are awarded certificates to this effect.
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