UEH Standard Programs

Brief Course Description

1. Course Title:

Advanced Reading 1

2. Language of Instruction:

Tiếng Anh

3. Course Code:

ENG513141

4. Credits:

3

5. Course Objectives:

Students can practice reading comprehension strategies to understand how content is developed and organized in courses, summarize key information and details, and identify and evaluate points in texts and documents. Moreover, they can improve their reading comprehension skills and techniques such as identifying main ideas, determining topic sentences, recognizing supporting details, skimming and scanning for the main idea and important details, focusing on key words to understand the main ideas of the passage, guessing meaning from context, and taking notes of important information.

6. Brief Description of Course Content:

The course helps students consolidate and develop reading comprehension skills and apply them in reading comprehension activities of academic documents, especially documents in the fields of economics, including Personal Development, Corporate image, Outsourcing, Management style, Strategic marketing and partnering, Crisis management, Investment banks, and Free trade.