SUNWAY FOUNDATION PROGRAMME Foundation in Arts (FIA) Student Guide 2020 MESSAGE from the DIRECTOR PROGRAMME OUTLINE
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SUNWAY FOUNDATION PROGRAMME Foundation in Arts (FIA) Student Guide 2020 MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR PROGRAMME OUTLINE Welcome to the Sunway Foundation Programme at Sunway College. This programme believes in holistic education. This Core Units Academic Electives Enrichment Units means that, coupled with academic knowledge you will be exposed to experiential learning as an integral part of your well-rounded education. We are committed to moulding and COMPULSORY Choose 4 units ONLY COMPULSORY shaping students who have a balanced world view and an understanding of social issues and world affairs outside of just text books. Our emphasis is not confined to your doing • Language and • Introduction to Accounting • Culture: Arts & well in examinations and moving on to tertiary studies but in Communication Techniques Expressions developing your love for life-long learning, your confidence • Communication: • Accounting Processes and • Critical Thinking Skills in your own ability and finding your own talents. Enjoy this Audience and Context Reports • Introduction to journey where you chart your own success. Good luck! • Language and • Introduction to Business: Psychology Knowledge World of Finance Suzana Ahmad Ramli Director of Programme Sunway Foundation Programme • Contemporary Business • Microeconomics: Concepts Mathematics and Models • Mathematical • Macroeconomics: The Global Techniques and Analysis View FOUNDATION IN ARTS • Statistical Techniques • Introduction to Business: Management and Marketing OR • Mathematics for Actuarial An academic bridge for students to transition • Contemporary Studies effectively into tertiary level studies Creative Expressions PROGRAMME STRUCTURE (Film as Art)* • 3 semesters of 14-week duration • 6 Core and 3 Enrichment Units • Developing Learning Strategies • Introduction to Mass are COMPULSORY * Note: Please consult Communication • 4 Academic Electives (of your • Developing Technical & Soft Skills programme advisors for • Introduction to Advertising choice) are COMPULSORY selection of this unit as • Introduction to Public Relations an option to Statistical • Travel and Cuisine • Setting Personal & Academic Goals ENTRY REQUIREMENTS Techniques. Passed SPM, O-Level or equivalent • Finding Individual Talents with minimum five (5) credits • Introduction to Computer DURATION • Becoming Confident Learners and Leaders Science 1 year • Social Media in the New IT World • Honing Communication Skills INTAKES • Introduction to Programming January / March / July / September • Calculus** • Involvement in the Community COMPLETION • Engaging in Extra-Curricular Activities December / March / July / August ** Note: Please consult programme advisors for selection of this unit. 02 03 PROGRAMME INFORMATION UNITS SYNOPSIS Core Units • The coursework component Student Support System Assessment and Language and Communication (PLNG001) allows students to monitor, We have special programme advisors who Examination This unit focuses on strengthening the basic language improve and set personal goals. provide academic guidance and support. • Evaluation is based on 50% skills to enable students to construct well-structured • The examinations evaluate the coursework (quizzes, projects, • Programme mentors expressions in written and oral communication. Reading final learning objectives and investigations, assignments • Peer Support with critical awareness and extracting important view the standards required for the and presentations) and 50% • We Care points from a range of literary and expository texts will also student to progress to tertiary examination at the end of each be part of their learning process. With Self-Development, Attendance Policy studies. unit. • Students are responsible for • The final transcript will show a Technology and Humanity as classroom themes, the • 80% attendance is expected for all complying with the assessment combined mark and grade for learning and communication process prompts learners lessons. requirements of individual units all units. Successful students will to develop personal opinions and effectively hone their • Parental confirmation and/or medical according to the unit outline be awarded the Certificate of argumentative writing and speaking skills. certificate is necessary for any absence. provided. Completion. Other reasons are based on acceptance • Stipulated dates for submission by DOP/DDOP. Communication: Audience and Context (PLNG002) of assignments are to be Graduation Requirements In this unit, learners are equipped with strong oral followed. Disciplinary action • Students must successfully persuasive skills to communicate with confidence their Assessment and may be taken if students fail to complete minimum 50 credits. views and opinions. To analyse diverse opinions and Field Trip to BFM Evaluation Policy submit their assignments on time. • Students must pass all Core and validity of claims, to convey information and stance on • All progress reviews and examinations • In the event a student misses an Enrichment Units and 4 Academic contemporary issues are central to this course. Learners are set by academic staff of the Pre- examination/assessment with a Electives. will be required to read and analyse texts and visual Mathematical Techniques and Analysis (PMTH002) University department to assess the valid and acceptable reason (eg: • CGPA calculation is based on all materials focusing on the seventeen United Nation This unit will teach students to present figures collected into student’s understanding of a particular hospitalisation) the student will units attempted. Sustainability Goals in order to challenge their personal appropriate tables and graphs. The topics in this unit also unit. write the paper at the earliest perspectives on global issues. Scaffolding from the include data analysis to determine measures of location, • Examination papers are moderated at possible date with permission University Application random by university faculty members previous unit PLNG001, students not only learn to form central tendency drawing of boxplots and skewness. This unit from the Director of Programme. • Students must attain the entry to ensure that necessary standards and and support personal stance but also to write and present will provide working knowledge of the use of sets, list and • Progress Report will be sent to requirements of the undergraduate learning outcomes are achieved by the parents every semester. programmes they wish to pursue convincingly for targeted audience. grids, two-way tables and tree diagram techniques to solve students. at their university of choice. problems in probability. These topics will provide students Language and Knowledge (PLNG003) with a sound basis for later work in mathematics and subjects This unit is a culmination of the previous two units where in related disciplines. AVAILABLE PATHWAYS: UNDERGRADUATE learners develop the ability to use language to arrive at concrete justifications and express independent views. Statistical Techniques (PMTH003) Victoria University Bachelor of Business: PROGRAMMES AT SUNWAY UNIVERSITY Central to the learning process is learner’s competency in This unit will teach students skills to make inferences and • Accounting • International Trade substantiating claims, drawing on their readings of literary, predictions using suitable statistical techniques. Students will • Banking & • Marketing expository and academic journals besides mastering the learn to draw conclusions from measures of central tendency Finance • Management & skills of referencing. Focusing on building an appropriate and dispersion data. This unit also includes bivariate • Financial Innovation CGPA style of writing for academic purposes, learners will be statistics whereby students will learn how to determine the • BSc (Hons) in 2.0 Risk • Supply Chain & skilfully guided to produce a research paper by conducting correlation coefficient of a pair of variables and to perform Accounting CGPA SUNWAY Management Logistics Management and Finance 2.5 FOUNDATION a small-scale individual research. This unit offers students prediction based on the line of best fit. This unit also include • BSc (Hons) a glimpse into the world of academia, equipping them the understanding and application of Binomial, Poisson and IN ARTS (FIA) Financial Analysis with basic research skills, ethics and values. Normal distributions. • BSc (Hons) • BSc (Hons) in Actuarial • BA (Hons) Design Financial Studies Communication • BA (Hons) in Advertising and • BA (Hons) Digital Film Contemporary Business Mathematics (PMTH001) Contemporary Creative Expressions - Film as Art Economics CGPA Branding Production The unit equips students with knowledge of mathematical (PCCE001) 2.0 CGPA • Bachelor of Business • BA (Hons) Entrepreneurship concepts and skills for mathematical operations so that This unit helps students to master the skills of film appreciation 2.3 Analytics (Hons) • BSc (Hons) Global Supply Chain they are able to apply appropriate techniques to common by teaching them to analyse and appreciate classic and • BSc (Hons) Business Management • BSc (Hons) in Computer Science problems. The topics in this subject include basic contemporary films. Students shall become informed viewers Management • BSc (Hons) Industrial Statistics • Bachelor of Information Systems (Hons) in Mobile arithmetic, fractions, decimals and percentages, rates, by understanding key vocabulary and concepts of film forms, • BSc (Hons) Business Studies • BA (Hons) in Interior ratio, proportion, simple interest,