Course Synopses

CSS100-8          Communication and Study Skills.

The aims of the course are to improve students’ reading efficiency (reading with a purpose), speaking, understanding and writing in English. With regard to study skills, the students are assisted to take notes from lectures and from text books, by selecting relevant facts/ideas and thereafter presenting them in organised sentences and paragraphs. They are assisted to tackle comprehension passage and to write, in an academic style, various types of essays : arguments, factual accounts, reports, and to read Tables and graphs and so on. Alongside the improvement of different study skills, the course is also concerned with improving accuracy in the use of language: analysis of sentences, correct grammar and spelling. in short, the course is designed to enable students to tackle most of the problems they will face when communicating effectively in English.

CSS101-6          Communication and Study Skills

The aims and content of the course are similar to those described for CSS100-8 as far as possible given the shorter time available for CSS101-6. in addition, the material used by the CSS101-6 students will be different from that used by the E 100 students as it is based on the language, skills and topics relevant to the sciences.

CSS298-3         Language and Study Skills

This course is designed for those students who failed to pass CSS 100 at the end of Year 1. It is of a remedial nature, concentrating on the instruction of those skills which individual students appear to be lacking. Students, at the end of the 1st Semester (Year 2) can show that they have mastered the relevant CSS 100 or CSS 101 skills by satisfactorily completing a number of assignments together with an End-of-Semester examination.

CSS299-3         Language and Study Skills

Like CSS298, this course, remedial in nature, aims at helping the students who have failed CSS298. its main focus is on the skills not yet acquired by the individual students.