Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) is now in position to offer a writing and communication course to all students, and has made the course compulsory. In order to further improve this course, the Humanities Center organized a seminar to promote the course in the spring semester.

The spring semester has set 30 class hours for the course with a total of 620 students and 20 classes. The course consists of three areas, oral communication, practical writing and academic writing. In addition to intense practice, oral communication will also feature throughout the practical writing and academic writing sections. This adopts the embedded teaching method in multiple sectors. Through learning and training, students are required to master basic language skills, complete various writing tasks independently, cope with communicative activities across various social scenes and be able to accurately express their professional opinions. The course aims to change the students’ writing ability to help them recognize the importance of writing and communication in their professional lives and future development.

Dean Chen Yuehong of the College of Humanities presided over the seminar. He talked about the new semester’s work plan and stressed SUSTech’s focus on developing a distinctive liberal arts education. He pointed out that the Humanities Center should take the opportunity to accelerate the development of its curriculum and faculty team to strengthen its teaching and research work. In its writing and communication courses, SUSTech is seeking an innovative path different from traditional liberal arts universities and other comprehensive universities, while striving to provide a high standard of education for SUSTech’s innovative talents. This innovative path is aiming to create a new model for cultivating and improving the national language ability.

Director of the Teaching and Research Section, Yang Guo, spoke about the syllabus and introduced the first week of the course in the 2019 spring semester.

The Humanities Center will continue to open various high-level courses to further explore new ideas for top-notch innovative talents. The writing and communication course will maintain 20 classes per semester, teaching between 1000 and 1200 students and covering all the freshmen in one year.