This 12-unit course is produced by the Foreign Languages Department, Medical College, Shantou University. Although it was initially designed for medical students, we believe it will be equally useful for students from other disciplines who are seeking to improve their language and cognitive skills to meet their academic goals.
We aim to help learners develop academic literacy through the mastery of three basic skills: academic language skills, critical thinking skills, and information management skills. We will not only teach learners how to get access to and search for academic information, but also how to understand and evaluate the information for their own purposes. And most importantly, we encourage learners to become information creators to produce and share the information in specific academic contexts.
