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You can follow either the Business Stream OR the Social
Studies Stream. Certain subjects taken in the first semester define
which subjects you will follow in the second semester. The Business
Stream is for students wishing to study subjects in the fields of
Business, Management, Economics, Travel and Tourism, Hotel and Catering
Management. The Social Studies
Stream is for students wishing to study subjects in the fields of Economics,
Psychology, Politics, Sociology, Social Anthropology.
Within the Business
Stream, you study English Language (if required), Business, Mathematics
and either Economics or Psychology. Native speakers of English take
additional subjects in place of English Language. The course is divided
into three sections.
| First
Semester (14 weeks) - August to December |
hours per week
(60 mins)
|
| * English Language |
10 hours/week
|
| * English for Academic
Purposes |
3 hours/week
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| Introduction to Business
I |
3 hours/week
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| Mathematics |
3 hours/week
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| either Introduction to
Economics or Introduction to Psychology |
3 hours/week
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| Second Semester (15
weeks) - January - May |
hours per week
(60 mins)
|
| * English Language |
10 hours/week
|
| * IELTS preparation |
3 hours/week
|
| Introduction to Business
II |
3 hours/week
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| Advanced Mathematics |
3 hours/week
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either Development Economics
or International Economics (for students who studied Introduction
to Economics in the first semester)
Theories of Personality (for students who studied Introduction to
Psychology in the first semester) |
3 hours/week
|
| Revision and Examinations
(6 weeks) - May - June |
hours per week
(60 mins)
|
| * English Language |
10 hours/week
|
| * IELTS preparation classes
(optional) |
3 hours/week
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| revision in each of the
student's three subjects (Business, Mathematics and either Economics
or Psychology) |
3 hours/week for each
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* Native speakers of English substitute additional academic studies
for English Language.
|
Business Stream
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|
First Semester
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Second Semester
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Revision
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* English Language (10 hrs/wk)
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* English Language (10 hrs/wk)
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* IELTS preparation
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* English for Academic Purposes (3)
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* IELTS preparation (3)
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EB4
Introduction to Business I (3)
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EB5
Introduction to Business II (3)
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MA4
Advanced Mathematics (3)
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Revision for three subject exams (Business,
Mathematics and either Economics or Psychology)
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EB1
Introduction to Economics (3)
or
PSY1
Introduction to Psychology (3)
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EB3
Development Economics (3)
or
EB2 International
Economics (3)
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PSY2
Theories of Personality (3)
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Within the Social
Studies Stream, students study English Language (if required)
and three subjects, chosen from Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology
and Mathematics. Native speakers of English take additional subjects
in place of English Language. The course is divided into three sections.
| First Semester (14
weeks) - August to December |
hours per week
(60 mins)
|
| * English Language |
10 hours/week
|
| * English for Academic
Purposes |
3 hours/week
|
| introductory courses in
each of the student's three subjects (the courses are Introduction
to Economics, Introduction to Philosophy, Introduction to Politics,
Introduction to Psychology and Mathematics) |
3 hours/week for each
|
| Second Semester (15
weeks - January - May |
hours per week
(60 mins)
|
| * English Language |
10 hours/week
|
| * IELTS preparation |
3 hours/week
|
advanced studies in each
of the three subjects:
Development Economics or International Economics (for students who
studied Introduction to Economics in the first semester)
Ethics or Comparative Religion (for students who studied Introduction
to Philosophy in the first semester)
Comparative Political Systems or The European Union (for students
who studied Introduction to Politics in the first semester)
Theories of Personality (for students who studied Introduction to
Psychology in the first semester)
Advanced Mathematics (for students who studied Mathematics in the
first semester) |
3 hours/week for each
|
| Revision and Examinations
(6 weeks) - May - June |
hours per week
(60 mins)
|
| * English Language |
10 hours/week
|
| * IELTS preparation classes
(optional) |
3 hours/week
|
| revision in
each of the student's three subjects |
3 hours/week for each
|
* Native speakers of English substitute additional academic studies
for English Language.
|
Social Studies Stream
|
|
First Semester
|
Second Semester
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Revision
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* English Language (10 hrs/wk)
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* English Language (10 hrs/wk)
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* IELTS preparation
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* English for Academic Purposes (3)
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* IELTS preparation (3)
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EB1
Introduction to Economics (3)
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Three from….
EB3 Development
Economics (3)
or
EB2 International
Economics (3) |
Revision for three subject exams
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PHL1
Introduction to Philosophy (3)
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PHL2
Ethics
or
REL1
Comparative Religion (3)
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SSC5
Introduction to Politics (3)
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SSC2
Comparative Political Systems(3)
or
SSC3
The European Union (3)
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PSY1
Introduction to Psychology (3)
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PSY2
Theories of Personality (3)
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MA4
Advanced Mathematics (3)
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