Consultants:

1

• Consultants
• Bernadette Wo _at_ bwwo2_at_hkucc.hku.hk
• Claudia Wong _at_ wclaudia_at_hkucc.hku.hk
• Conttia Lai _at_ conttialai_at_hkucc.hku.hk
• Patrick Desloge _at_ pdesloge_at_hkucc.hku.hk

2
Overview

• Course
• Course Aims
• Your Benefits
• Consultants
• Useful Contact
• Seminars
• Website
• Assessment
• Feedback Comments

3
Course

• managed by English Centre consultants
• 3 credits for computer science information
  systems majors
• focuses on advanced professional oral written
  communication
• structured around 3 seminars

4
Course Aims

• To teach
• speaking (asking effective questions) in oral
  interviews
• technical vocabulary
• writing resumes
• promote
• participation independent work in English
  through self web-based learning consultations
  with your consultant

5
Your Benefits

• You will learn how to
• understand use spoken written professional
  technical language.
• produce ask questions to elicit information.
• conduct effective interviews.
• increase technical vocabulary.
• organise and analyse information
• structure, form content, use appropriate format
  language in writing resumes.
• write effective resumes.
• work successfully with your consultants

6
Consultants

• trained professionals who will facilitate you in
  achieving the seminar objectives

7
Seminars

• 1 Asking effective questions conducting
  effective interviews
• 2 Increasing your technical vocabulary skills
• 3 Writing resumes

8
Duration Conduct

• Seminar 1
• 1st 50 mins of 6 sessions conducted
  simultaneously with Seminar 2
• Seminar 2
• Next 50 mins of 6 sessions conducted
  simultaneously with Seminar 1
• Seminar 3

9
Website

• _at_ http//ec.hku.hk/cs/1504/
• All seminar materials are to be
• downloaded before the sessions
• are to be brought as hard copies to
• the sessions! Students without the
• materials will be asked to leave to print
• them out or attendance will be
• considered as null.
• Resources to assist you in
• completing the course
• successfully for
• Independent learning
• Web-based learning

10
Assessment

• for each seminar is individually assessed
• To complete the seminars successfully
• you need to attain an overall pass grade for all
  assessed components.

11
(No Transcript)
12
Grading
13
Feedback Comments

• are valued to be directed to
• your consultants
• the coordinator
• the end-of-course evaluation
• the Computer Science Department Staff-Student
  Consultative Committee meetings. Each course has
  an elected representative to that committee. You
  should pass comments for discussion to that
  representative.