Marxist - Leninist Political Economy

  1. Course: Marxist - Leninist Political Economy

- Course code: ML016

- Course credits: 2 Credits

- Hours: 30 theory hours and 60 Self-study hours.

  1. Management unit:

- Department: The Basic Principles of Marxist-Leninist

- School: Political Sciences

  1. Requisites:

- Prerequisite: ML014

  1. Course objectives:

This course aims:

- To provide students with basic and specialized knowledge of Marxist-Leninist Political Economy

- To help students form scientific worldview, logical thinking and scientific methodology as the basis for academic research.

- To help students acquire the knowledge of Marxist-Leninist Political Economy, identify and solve the current theoretical problems of Economics - Politics.

- To develop skills of independent work and plan-making for self study.

- To help students apply the knowledge of this course to analyze social, political and economic issues effectively

- To help students form teamwork skills, assign, monitor and check teammates’ work progress.

- To help students understand, handle pedagogical communication situations, practice presentation skills and use IT aids in the working process.

- To help students build stable political standpoint and ideology.

- To help students a professional, confident, responsible and disciplined working attitude.

- To help students to be self-oriented to present personal views and form critical thinking skills to defense such views in public.

  1. Brief description of the course:

In this course, students will be provided with basic and specialized knowledge of Marxist-Leninist Philosophy including: Objects, research methods and functions of Marxist-Leninist Political Economy; Commodities, markets and participants’ roles in the market; Surplus values in the market economy; Competition and monopoly in the market economy; The socialist-oriented market economy and economic interest relationship in Vietnam.

4.3 Scientific Socialism

  1. Course: Scientific Socialism

- Course code: ML018

- Credits: 02 Credits

- Hours: 30 Theory hours and 60 Self-study hours.

  1. Management unit:

- Department: The Basic Principles of Marxist-Leninism

-  School: Political Sciences.

  1. Requisites:

- Prerequisite: ML016 or ML017

  1. Course objectives:

This course aims:

- To provide students with basic knowledge about the theoretical and practical issues of scientific socialism in constructinging socialism in Vietnam in the current transition period.

- To form students’ ability to analyze and evaluate theoretical and practical issues in the process of building socialism in Vietnam.

- To help students form and apply skills of cooperation, teamwork, autonomy, problem-solving, presentation and communication.

 - To train students’ positive attitude in studying political theory courses, have belief in the goals, ideal, and success of the Doi moi cause initiated and led by Vietnamese Communist Party in the current transition period.

  1. Brief description of the course:

This course provides students with basic knowledge about the general theoretical issues of socialism and practice in the build of socialism in our country today. The content of the course mainly focuses on the following issues: the advent and development of scientific socialism; the historic mission of the working class, socialism and the transition period to socialism; socialist democracy and socialist government; alliances of class, class; ethnicity, religion issues; family problems in the current transition to socialism.

4.4 The history of Vietnamese Communist Party

  1. Course: The history of Vietnamese Communist Party

- Course code: ML019

- Credits: 02 credits

- Hours: 30 theory hours and 60 self-study hours.

  1. Management unit:

- Department: The revolutionary lines of Vietnamese Communist Party

- School: Political Sciences

  1. Requisites:

- Prerequisites: ML018

  1. Course objectives:

This course aims:

- To provide students with basic knowledge of how to identify objectives, tasks, methods, and importance of the course during the learning process.

- To provide students with basic knowledge of the establishment of Vietnamese Communist Party, the Party's lines, guidelines and views through historic periods of Vietnam's revolutionary leadership, the Party’s organization of how to mobilize Vietnamese citizens to implement the Party's line, guidelines as well as State's policies and laws.

- To train students to form information searching skills, critical thinking skills, to apply the acquired knowledge to solve practical problems.

- To train students’ skills of communication, information analysis and evaluation, creativity, and teamwork.

- To train students to be serious, industrious, conscious, and responsible for their study, to have the firm political standpoint and ideology based on communism, to be proud of the Vietnamese revolutionary victories under the leadership of the Vietnamese Communist Party and precious traditions of the nation; consolidate their belief in the Marxist-Leninism viewpoint, Ho Chi Minh’s Ideology as well as the policies and guidelines of the Party, State's policies and laws.

  1. Brief description of the course:

This course provides students with basic and specialized knowledge of objects, purposes, tasks, research and study methods of the History of Communist Party and the basic, core, systematic knowledge of the Party establishment (1920- 1930), the process of Party's leading the rise to power (1930-1945), leading two resistance wars against French colonialist and American imperialist invasions, completing national liberation and reunion (1945 - 1975), leading the national transition to socialism and carrying out the Doi moi (1975-2018). Thereby, by affirming the successes, listing the limitations, and summarizing experience of the Party’s leadership, the course helps students raise awareness, belief in the Party, apply the knowledge they have learned in practice, contributing to the construction and defense of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

4.5 Ho Chi Minh's Ideology

  1. Course: Ho Chi Minh’s Ideology

- Course code: ML021

- Credits: 02 credits

- Hours: 30 theory hours, and 60 self-study hours.

  1. Management unit:

- Department: Ho Chi Minh’s Ideology

- School: Political Sciences

  1. Requisites:

- Prerequisite: ML019 or ML020

- Corequisites: No.

  1. Course objectives:

This course aims:

- To provides students with basic understanding of Marxist-Leninist: together with Marxist-Leninist Philosophy, Marxist - Leninist Political Economy, Scientific Socialism, the History of Vietnamese Communist Party to form the understanding of ideology, and guidelines of Vietnamese Communist Party.

- To train students to apply Ho Chi Minh’s Ideology in daily life, to apply acquired knowledge to struggle against hostile forces toward Vietnamese government, the Party, President Ho Chi Minh, to develop skills of independent thinking, creativity, teamwork, communication and presentation, to follow President Ho Chi Minh’s lifestyle and ethics.

- To enable to have a correct understanding of the Party's revolution and guidelines, and the State's policies and laws, a clear understanding of the youth's role in the cause of building and defending the country, to avoid sanctifying President Ho Chi Minh.

  1. Brief description of the course:

Along with the subjects Marxist-Leninist Philosophy, Marxist-Leninist Political Economy, Scientific socialism, History of Vietnamese Communist Party, Ho Chi Minh's Ideology provides students with better understanding of the ideological foundation, the guidelines for the Party's actions and the revolution of our country; basic knowledge about Marxist-Leninism, contributing to build a new human ethic foundation. The course consists of 6 chapters on the basic contents of Ho Chi Minh's Ideology with clear course objectives, presenting systematic understanding of Ho Chi Minh's ideology, ethics and cultural values.

4.6 General Law

  1. Course: General Law

- Course code: KL001

- Credits: 02 credits

- Hours: 30 theory hours.

  1. Management unit:

- Department: Administrative Law

- School: Law

  1. Requisites:

- Prerequisites: No.

- Corequisites: No.

  1. Course objectives:

This course aims:

- To provide students with basic knowledge of the general theoretical issues of the state and law; the application of the basic regulations of the Vietnamese law system.

- To train students to exploit the common law database, to be able to update basic law knowledge, to develop their sense of law and civils’ rights.

  1. Brief description of the course:

This course is for students who are not major in law. The course introduces the basic theoretical issues of the Marxist-Leninist doctrine of the state and the law from the origin, nature, form, function as well as the types of state and the law that have formed, existed and developed through different socio-economic forms in human history. In addition, the course also includes the study of the state's position in the state political and administrative systems. It provides students with background knowledge of the common laws of Vietnam such as fundamental rights and responsibilities of citizens, crimes, violations of administrative laws, regulations of the law on marriage, divorce, inheritance, etc.

4.7 General Logics

a. Course: General Logics

- Course code: ML007

- Credits: 2 credits

- Hours 30 theory hours

b. Management unit

- Department: The Basic Principles of Marxist-Leninism

- College: Political Sciences

c. Requisites:

- Prerequistes: No

d. Course objectives:

This course aims:

            - To provide students with basic knowledge of laws and basic form of formal logical thinking so as to apply them proficiently, to respect and protect objective knowledge.

 - To train students’ communication, presentation and critical skills.

  1. Brief description of the course

            The course provides knowledge of formal logic, the rules and requirements of the basic laws of thinking such as: Law of uniformity; the law of noncontradiction; the third law of rejection; the law of reason; the basic forms of thinking like: concept; judgement; deductive; hypothesis; demonstration; rejection and sophistry.

4.8 Basics of Sociology

  1. Course: Basics of Sociology

- Course code: XH028

- Credits: 2 credits (theory)

b. Management unit

- Department: Sociology

            - College/ Institute: School of Social Sciences and Humanities

c. Requisites: No

d. Course objectives:

This course aims:

- To provide students with the basic knowledge of sociology such as: concepts, objects, functions, tasks, sociological structure, some basic sociological theories and sociological concepts. Then, they can apply sociological theories to explain some social phenomena. In addition, students can choose a social issue to research, evaluate and give opinions on selected social problems, determine the correct position of the course in their job, show interests and excitement in the course.

  1. Brief description of the course

            In this course, students study the law, the law of the formation, the movement to change the relationship, the interaction between people and society. The research objects of Sociology are social relations, social interactions presented through behavior between people in groups, organizations, and social systems.

  • General Documents & Archives
  1. Course: Administrative _ Archives

- Course code: XH014

- Credits: 2 credits

- Hours 30 theory hours, 60 self-study hours

  1. Management unit

- Department: Literature

- College/ Institute/ Centre/ Department: School of Social Sciences and Humanities

c. Requistes: No

  1. Course objectives:

This course aims:

- To provide students with general knowledge about state management documents and archives, the theory drafting and management of state management documents, skills of state management document identification; state management documents checking; state management documents drafting; management of state management documents; analysis, synthesis and evaluation of documents and documents archived in state agencies; searching, analyzing, synthesizing and evaluating management information.

- To help students to have the right attitude towards decoding, enacting and managing state management documents; consciousness, responsibility, ethics, professional manners; civic responsibility; service attitude in the field of state management.

e. Brief description of the course

            This course equips students with theoretical and practical knowledge about management documents and archives, helping them realize the role of administrative documents and archives for the work of management. In addition, this course also helps students know methods of drafting and scientific management of various types of administrative documents, know how to select and classify documents for archiving; knowing how to search, use archives to be able to perform the work of management at schools effectively as well as at agencies in general.

4.10 Innovation and entrepreneurship

  1. Course:Innovation and entrepreneurship

- Course code: KN002

- Credits: 2 credits

- Hours: 25 theory hours, 5 entrepreneurial project, 60 self-study hours

b. Management unit

           - Department: - Board of Teaching - Staff:

           - School: Student Consulting, Supporting and Entrepreneurship Center

c. Requistes: No

  1. Course objectives:

This course aims:

- To provide students with basic understanding and explanation of the concepts:  entrepreneurship, startup ecosystem, reasons to start a business; ways to recognize traits, qualities, and spirits of entrepreneur; intellectual property rights and 4.0 technology;

- To train students to evaluate and identify the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and challenges of a startup idea, market, and implement a startup idea in business practice, to build creative and innovative ideas; to choose the type of business ownership, startup consultant and call for startup capital;

- To enable students to develop a basic business plan; gather information, think creatively and logically, handle, evaluate, and analyze; present, justify and criticize business plans, to demonstrate the spirit of entrepreneur and have the responsibility for work;

- To train students to be ethical in business.

e. Brief description of the course

            The content of the course focuses on general knowledge about creating, innovating and developing startup ideas, choosing the type of business ownership, and having basic knowledege of intellectual property rights. In addition, students are also provided with basic knowledge and skills about the market such as assessment of strengths, opportunities, threats, risks of commercializing products from business ideas, discovering business potential and developing start-up planning. More importantly, students have the opportunity to gain experience shared by successful entrepreneurs and/or visit successful startup models.

4.11 Basic Informatics

a. Course: Basic Informatics

- Course code: TN033

- Credits: 01 credit

- Hours: 15 theory hours, 0 Tutorial, 30 self-study hours

b. Management unit

- Department: Applied Informatics

- College: College of Information & Communications Technology

c. Requistes: No.

  1. Course objectives:

This course aims:

            - To provide students with the basic concepts of Windows operating systems; text-drafting features in Microsoft Word; basic data processing and analysis functions in Microsoft Excel;

            - To help students to create report presentations with Microsoft Powerpoint; use the Internet to search for information and E-mail; Windows operating system proficiently; editing and decorate all kinds of documents in Microsoft Word; use proficiently basic data processing and analysis functions in Microsoft Excel;

- To train students’ skills of problem-solving, teamwork and discovery, helping them have a sense of responsibility at work and correct professional ethics; discipline, industrial behavior; ability to work scientifically and cooperate in a team.

- To provide students with relevant methods of thinking and performing work scientifically, investing, creating, and applying information technology to life; learning consciousness and life-long learning.

  1. Brief description of the course

            This course provides students with basic theoretical understanding of information technology: Information concept, general structure of the computer, Windows operating system, commands and operations for drafting documents in Microsoft Word, spreadsheet processing in Microsoft Excel, presentation of reports by Microsoft Powerpoint, Internet and E-mail usage.

  •  Basic Informatics in Labs
  1. Course: Basic Informatics Pratice

- Course code: TN034

- Credits: 02 credit

- Hours: 0 theory hours, 60 tutorial, 60 self-study hours

  1. Management unit

- Department: Applied Informatics

- College: College of Information & Communications Technology

  1. Requistes:
  2. Course objectives:

This course aims:

- To enable studetns to be proficient in Windows operating system; to create and decorate all kinds of documents in Microsoft Word; basic data processing and analysis functions in Microsoft Excel; to create report presentations by Microsoft Powerpoint; to use the Internet to search for information and E-mail.

 - To train students to practice skills of problem-solving, teamwork and discovery, to have a sense of responsibility at work and correct professional ethics; discipline, industrial behavior; ability to work scientifically and cooperate in a team.

- To provide students with relevant methods of thinking and performing work scientifically, investing, creating, and applying information technology to life; learning consciousness and life-long learning.

  1. Brief description of the course

 This course enables students to apply the theory of basic Informatics learned through practicing on computers; thereby, students can practice these following skills: Using Windows operating system, drafting documents in Microsoft Word, processing spreadsheet in Microsoft Excel, presentation of reports by Microsoft Powerpoint, using Internet and E-mail. The practical part also incorporates the skills of writing scientific reports, creating presentations on multimedia projectors.

4.13 Public administration and academic management

  1. Course: Public administration and academic management

- Course code: SG.011

- Credits: 02 credits

- Hours: 30 theory hours; 60 self-study hours

  1. Management unit

- Department: Educational Psychology.

- School: School of Education

  1. Requisites: No
  2. Course objectives:

This course aims:

- To provide students with basic knowledge about the State, State of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Principles of organization and operation; basic knowledge of management, public administration, state management of education and training; Viewpoints and policies on education and training of the Party and State.

 - To enable students to apply knowledge of public administration management and academic management in education and training activities, to develop skills self-study, teamwork, problem solving, management, etc.

- To develop students’ attitude of conforming to rules, regulations, ethics, professional values in education and training activities; solidarity, self-consciousness and responsibility for the reform, foster the efficiency of education and training management.

  1. Brief description of the course

This course provides students with basic knowledge about the State, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam; Management, Public Administration and Public Administration of Education - Training, the role of schools and teachers; enhances their capacity and public administration management practice in schools and educational activities. The course focuses on the developing of cognitive skills and the application of knowledge to cultivating teacher personality; at the same time, contributing to the development of skills in student management, school management, etc. Skills are mainly formed through the integration of teaching activities.

4.14 Overview of Psychology

  1. Course: Overview of Psychology

- Course code: SP009

- Credits: 02 credits

- Hours: 30 theory hours, 60 self-study hours

  1. Management unit

- Department: Educational Psychology

- School: School of Education

  1. Requisites:

- Prerequistes: ML009

- Corequisites: No

  1. Course objectives:

This course aims:

- To provide students with general knowledge of psychology.

- To enable them to apply the knowledge acquired to prove the nature of human psychology; demonstrate/relate the relationship between perception, emotions, will-action, memory in the formation and development of student's personality, human personality.

 - To develop students’ skills of teamwork and presentation, to have respectful attitude to the nature of students’ psychology, human psychology; to develop initiative in the formation and development of psychology and individual personality.

  1. Brief description of the course

This course equips students with the basis of knowledge about psychology such as: objects, tasks, functions, principles and research methods of psychology; The nature of human psychological phenomenon; The natural bases, the social bases of human psychology; The formation and development of psychology, consciousness; cognitive activities; Emotion; Spirit; Personality and the formation of personality development. This course is the foundation for students to continue researching other relevant fundamental courses such as: Pedagogy psychology, crime psychology, social psychology.

School of Education -  Can Tho University.

Address: Campus II, Can Tho University, 3/2 Street, Ninh Kieu District, Can Tho City, Viet Nam.

Phone number & Fax: +84.292.3830261.

Email: ksp@ctu.edu.vn.