Options Courses
Under the category of University or "U" courses, the student is required to obtain the following units (or credits) to graduate.
- 20 units for the Food Technology programme
- 18 units for the Bioresource Technology programme
- 18 units for the Environmental Technology programme
Approved Courses for Options Courses
The student needs to take the following courses to fulfil the credit required:
- WSU101/2 Sustainability: Issues, Challenges & Prospects (by the Centre for Global Sustainability Studies)
- HTV201/2 Thinking Techniques (by the School of Humanities). Note that this course is not recommended for international students because it is taught in Bahasa Malaysia.
- SHE101/2 Ethnic Relations
English Language Courses
The following courses offered by the School of Languages, Literacies and Translation may be taken as a University course to fulfil the compulsory English language requirements (for students with Band 6 in MUET) or as a Skill or Option course:
- LHP451/2 Effective Reading
- LHP452/2 Business Writing
- LHP453/2 Creative Writing
- LHP454/2 Academic Writing
- LHP456/2 Spoken English
- LHP457/4 Public Speaking and Speech Writing
- LHP458/2 English for Translation (only in Semester 2)
- LHP459/2 English for Interpretation (only in Semester 1)
Foreign Language Courses
Students can take the foreign language courses offered by the School of Languages, Literacies and Translation as Option or compulsory courses. Students are not allowed to register for more than one foreign language course per semester. They must complete at least two levels of a foreign language course before they are allowed to register for another foreign language course. However, students are not required to complete all four levels of one particular foreign language course. The foreign language courses offered are as follows:
- Arabic: LAA100/2, LAA200/2, LAA300/2, LAA400/2
- Chinese: LAC100/2, LAC200/2, LAC300/2, LAC400/2
- Japanese: LAJ100/2, LAJ200/2, LAJ300/2, LAJ400/2
- German: LAG100/2, LAG200/2, LAG300/2, LAG400/2
- Spanish: LAE100/2, LAE200/2, LAE300/2, LAE400/2
- French: LAP100/2, LAP200/2, LAP300/2, LAP400/2
- Thai: LAS100/2, LAS200/2, LAS300/2, LAS400/2
- Tamil: LAT100/2, LAT200/2, LAT300/2, LAT400/2
- Korean: LAK100/2, LAK200/2, LAK300/2, LAK400/2
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