General Education

Designed to introduce the students to the world of computers and software applications. This instruction will provide them with a solid foundation on which to build a strong and useful knowledge of Information Technology. Students through class room lectures, application program demonstrations, and hands-on lessons and exercises students will learn how to use Microsoft Office applications and explore and examine the relationship between technology and society and interpret how computer technology can benefit businesses, government, and educational organizations. Students will acquire skills and proficiency in MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint that enable them to pass the Microsoft Certified Application Specialist Examinations.

This course deals with science, culture and ethics of information technology, its influence on modern living and human relationships, and uses for personal, professional and social advancements. This will develop the skills in the positive use of ICT in everyday life specially in business. Thru the creation of different outputs like AVPs, digital posters and cartoons, it will help the students in demonstrating an understanding of the range of business strategies.

Purposive Communication is a three-unit course that develops students’ communicative competence and enhances their cultural and intercultural awareness through multimodal tasks that provide them opportunities for communicating effectively and appropriately to a multicultural audience in a local or global context. It equips students with tools for critical evaluation of a variety of texts and focuses on the power of language and the impact of images to emphasize the importance of conveying messages responsibly. The knowledge, skills, and insights that students gain from this course may be used in their other academic endeavors, their chosen disciplines, and their future careers as they compose and produce relevant oral, written, audio-visual and/or web-based output for various purposes.

This course aim to improve the English Language Proficiency of college freshmen by learning critical grammatical structures necessary for communication functons such as narrating, describing, giving directions, etc.and to acquire adequate vocubulary needed for academic study. The learner will master fundamental grammar concepts and apply this knowledge to written documents, oral speaking skills and the end of course requirement.