UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES
FACULTY OF ORIENTAL STUDIES
Programme specification
Awarding institution University of Social Sciences and Humanities
Teaching institution Faculty of Oriental Studies
Accreditation Vietnam National University, Hanoi
institution
Name of the final Degree of Bachelor
award
Programme title Oriental Studies
Faculty Faculty of Oriental Studies
Objectives of the To train students of Oriental studies to have firm political mindset,
programme disciplines, professional ethics, willingness to serve the country and
the people. Students have a thorough understanding of social sciences
and humanities; fairly comprehensive and systematic knowledge of
Oriental studies with different majors like Indian studies, Korean
studies, Japanese studies, Chinese studies, etc. Students possess
communication skills in international relations, and be able to use
language of their majors (English, Korean, Japanese, Chineses, Thai,
etc) in communication and professional activities. Graduates of
Oriental Studies can work for domestic and international agencies,
organisations, enterprises
Expected learing I. Expected learning outcomes in terms of knowledge
outcomes [Link] knowledge of political, economic, social, cultural,
scientific and technological issues
[Link] knowledge of social sciences and humanities
1.3. Knowledge of regional studies and Oriental Studies
1.4. Knowledge of the Oriental areas
1.5 Specialized knowledge
II. Expected learning outcomes in terms of professional skills
2.1. Reasoning and problem-solving skills
2.2. Research and knowledge discovering skills
2.3. Ability to apply theoretical knowledge into practice
2.4. Ability to create, develop and embrace changes in their career.
III. Expected learning outcomes in terms of other supplementary skills
3.1. Autonomous skills
3.2. Teamwork skills
3.3. Communication skills
3.4. Foreign language skills
3.5. Computer and technological skills
4. Expected learning outcomes in terms of ethics
4.1. Personal ethics
4.2. Professional ethics
4.3. Social ethics
Programme code 52220213
Admission criteria Admission through the university entrance exame and application
review according to regulations of VNU Hanoi and MOET
- Group C (Literature, History, Geography), Group D1 (Literature,
Maths, English), Group D2 (Literature, Maths, Russian), Group D3
(Literature, Maths, French), Group D4 (Literature, Maths, Chinese),
Group D5 (Literature, Maths, German), Group D6 (Literature, Maths,
Japanese)
- Estimated quota: 100 students each batch
Comparative - Curricula of the Faculty of Japanese Studies, Univeristy of Tokyo,
curricula Japan
- Curricula of Cambridge University, UK
- Curricula of Santa Barbara University, USA
- Curricula of Harvard University, USA
- Curricula of Beijing Foreign Studies University, China
- Curricula of National University of Singapore
- Curricula of Texas University, USA
- Curricula of Thammasat University, Thailand
- Advanced programmes of Sheffield University, UK
Teaching, learning - Provide sufficient information about training progress, guidelines for
and assessment students to follow the curriculum
strategies - Provide information about Syllabus, department of academic
disciplines, Physical Education, National Defense Education, Foreign
languages, graduation papers, etc.
- In each syllabus, there is always information about assessment
according to each course proposed by lecturers
Number of required 138 credits hours
credit hours
Form of training Full-time
Languages Vietnamese, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Thai
Duration of training 4 years
Date on which the October 2012/ latest version, currently used
programme
specification was
written/revised
Publishing USSH, VNU Hanoi
institution