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LANGUAGE ENHANCEMENT PROGRAMMES CONDUCTED BY PUBLICLY-FUNDED UNIVERSITIES
Annex A
A. THE CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG
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Compulsory Courses:
English for Specific Purposes (ESP) Courses were started in 1996-97 for all first-year students in the Faculties of Business Administration, Engineering and Social Science. The courses are credit-bearing and specially designed to meet the specific needs of students of different disciplines. Details are as follows:
Faculty
Business Administration Engineering
Social Science
ESP Courses
Communication for Business Studies Technical Communication
one of the following courses:
Business Chinese
Chinese for Executives
English Improvement Strategies II
Introduction to Academic Writing
Business Communication
Intensive Language Enhancement Courses. The University is actively planning for the introduction of compulsory intensive courses on English, Cantonese and Putonghua for undergraduate students.
Elective Chinese Proficiency Courses, English Proficiency Courses and Putonghua Courses are credit-bearing. To provide students with greater opportunities to enrol in language proficiency courses, summer sessions have been introduced from summer 1996.
Independent Learning Centre is a bilingual language centre encompassing a Chinese Section and an English Section, with the objective of encouraging students to adopt a self-initiated and self-paced learning approach in improving their language ability. The Centre continues to explore a greater variety of multi-facet language enhancement programmes and activities. It is also planning to extend its opening hours so as to enable students to make full use of its facilities.
Language Enhancement Programmes on English, Chinese and Putonghus are organised by the University's four Colleges in less formal setting with smaller groups, and in more flexible hours and dates, so as to cater for different needs of students. A total of $4 million has been assigned for this purpose in 1996-97.