Objectives:

1.  Refine and enhance students’ English proficiency and skills to match the rigors of academia.
2.  Reinforce the knowledge of basic and advanced mathematical and analytical techniques.
3.  Consolidate the knowledge of basic applications of computer science.
4.  Integrate the necessary study skills and introduce the basics of research skills.

Learning Outcomes:

1.  To interpret responses to various questions in oral discussions on various topics.
2.  To build texts of various lengths, showing student’s ability to coordinate, organize, punctuation, spelling, sentence structure, grammar, and vocabulary.
3.  To infer key ideas from texts of different length and identify the main idea in a given period of time.
4.  To relate and understand the basic principles of Information Technology.
5.  To identify network fundamentals, types, benefits, and risk of network computing.
6.  To understand the basic mathematic concepts related to critical thinking and problem solving.
7.  To solve various types of basic mathematic operations and questions.