| Subjects Required | Credits | Courses Duration |
Course Description | Course Outcomes | Evaluation/ Assessment | References |
| Listening | 3 | 45 periods | This course helps students get familiarized with a variety of topics such as human, language, culture, entertainment, job in many simple forms of conversations, news reports, and lectures. | Students will gain listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills at the level of A1. Based on the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR). Students will have a basic ability to communicate and exchange information in a simple way. | Ongoing & final exam | (Scanlon, J., [2011], Q: Skills for Success 1: Speaking and Listening – Student’s Book, 1st edn, Oxford University Press, New York) |
| Speaking | 3 | 45 periods | This course helps student practice speaking skills based on such situations and topics such as family, friends, jobs, hobbies, holiday plans, presentation preparation, narration. | Ongoing & final exam | (Scanlon, J., [2011], Q: Skills for Success 1– Listening and Speaking, Oxford University Press, Oxford. | |
| Reading | 3 | 45 periods | This course provides students with a variety of reading subskills such as skimming, scanning, guessing the meaning of unknown words based on context clues and/or morphological analysis, identifying genre of the given text, and identifying the writer’s viewpoints or attitudes. This course also equips students with academic vocabulary and background knowledge about subjects like Internet, education, job, sports, tourism, culture, entertainment and fashion. | Ongoing & final exam | (Anderson, N.J., [2013], Active Skills for Reading - Intro, Third Edition, National Geographic Learning, Boston) | |
| Writing | 3 | 45 periods | It helps students explore ideas, brainstorm prior knowledge on the topics through pictures and suggested questions in order to build vocabulary, organize ideas for the related topics such as anthropology, history, journalism, psychology and urban research. Each chapter includes stimulating Ideas, brainstorming and outlining, developing ideas), editing your writing, and review. | Ongoing & final exam | (Savage, A., [2012], Effective Academic Writing Intro: Developing Ideas-Second Edition, Oxford University Press, New York.) |
