Course Title: English I (3 Cr.)
Course Code: CACS103
Year/ Semester: I/I
Course Load: 4 Hrs. / Week (Theory: 3 Hrs., Tutorial: 1 Hr.)
Course Description:
This course aims at helping students combine their knowledge of the English language with their technical knowledge with special emphasis on vocabulary acquisition and grammatical accuracy. It offers up-to-date technical content, authentic reading, and listening passages covering a wide range of topics like the use of virtual reality in industry, personal computing, viruses and security, information systems, and multimedia. Letter-writing section offers a complete guide to writing work-related letters and a comprehensive glossary of technical terms forms a useful mini-dictionary of computing terminology.
Course Objective:
The main objective of the course is to:
- Impart effective language skills to students and enable them to use language accurately, clearly, and concisely,
- acquaint students with the language used in computer study through extensive reading actively
- help them to enhance their ability to use language in a proper way with a specific focus on grammatical accuracy and writing competence,
- enable students to improve work-related letter writing skills with special attention to presentation and structure, and
- familiarize them with innovation in computer science while introducing them to the language used in this field.
- Lectures 45
- Quizzes 0
- Duration 10 weeks
- Skill level All levels
- Language English
- Students 0
- Certificate No
- Assessments Yes
