Freshman Orientation for ABCT students

课程简介

/ Indicative Syllabus • Understanding programme design and curriculum structure • Facilities supporting learning in PolyU • Career and life planning, ways to achieve personal goals and successes -- 1 of 3 -- 2 • Team works

目标

(a) To introduce and enthuse students in the Chemical Technology, Applied Biology with Biotechnology, and Food Safety and Technology programmes to their major disciplines; (b) To expose students to the basic skills of teamwork and leadership, and the concepts and an understanding of their disciplined-based professional career development with the incorporation of entrepreneurship; (c) To foster students’ creativity, effective communications skills and innovative problem-solving abilities, as well as development of and global outlook; (d) To engage students, in their first year of study, in desirable forms of learning at a university setting that are conducive to smooth adjustment to University life, self-regulation, and lifelong learning.

先修要求

/ Co-requisite/ Exclusion Nil

Teaching Pattern

Methodology • Lectures and seminars by professors and renowned experts from various areas to inspire students about their major study and to motivate students’ career aspiration. • Alumni from various areas are invited to seminar to students. The speakers are not limited to scholars; entrepreneurs and leaders in specific areas would be invited. Some have been working in the industrial/ commercial sector for years. Through sharing their success stories, our students will gain more understanding about the spirit of entrepreneurship. • The importance of learning to learn and lifelong learning are introduced to students through the workshops organized in collaboration with the supporting offices, such as Library and Student Affairs Office. • Small group projects to develop students’ the ability of innovative problem-solving ability and their understanding/application of theories in different disciplines. • Students will be informed to form groups in the first class. They have to come up with a grouping and a project title in week 2-4. They will need to search for materials and information and report to the supervisor progress of the project regularly. Supervisors will continuously monitor students’ work. By the end of semester, each group will submit a video presentation and come up with a written report to demonstrate their leadership, teamwork and individual performance.