Overview
GenEd Overview
1. Program Description
| Name of the program degree | VinUniversity General Education (GenED) |
| Program duration | – As an integral component of the undergraduate curriculum.
– All undergraduates will complete the same requirements regardless of their major discipline of study. |
| Total credits/hours | – Credit-bearing courses: 27 credits
– Non-credit bearing courses: 45 contact hours (*) National Defense Education (165 contact hours) as the requirement of the government and MOET. |
VinUniversity’s General Education Program (GenEd) instills in students the values, competencies, skills, and knowledge required to respond to the uncertain emerging world and to become responsible and inspirational leaders.
At VinUniversity, the General Education Program is the first home for all students as they embark on a journey of self-discovery. Essentially, GenEd at VinUniversity is a “gateway” between past and future, theory and practice, and local and global.
To competently serve society with heart and mind, GenEd seeks to begin cultivating in each student six identified attributes: Character, Competence, Critical Thinking, Leadership, Entrepreneurship, and National Pride-Global Awareness.
2. Program Mission
VinUniversity’s dynamic, innovative General Education Program (GenED) will develop tomorrow’s ambitious leaders by providing the knowledge, skills, competencies, and core values needed to make an impact as professionals, entrepreneurial leaders, and global citizens.
3. Learning Goals and Learning Objectives
The program’s learning goals and objectives are aligned with the VinUni mission, core values and generic graduate attributes (EXCEL: Empathy, Exceptional Capabilities, Creativity, Entrepreneurial Mindsets, Leadership). There are three learning goals and nine learning objectives as below:
| Program Learning Goal 1 (PLG1): Develops and Nurtures Values | The GenED Programme develops and nurtures values that serve as the foundation to build personal and professional achievement and contribution to the community, local and global. |
| Program Learning Goal 2 (PLG2): Promotes Transferable Skills | Promotes Transferable Skills The GenED Programme promotes transferable skills for success beyond the university. |
| Program Learning Goal 3 (PLG3): Broadens the Horizons of Knowledge and Curiosity | The GenED Programme broadens the horizons of knowledge and encourages intellectual curiosity in students. |
1. Curriculum Composition
The GenED program comprises three domains: University Core Requirements, Distributional Requirements and Co-curricular learning with 27 credits:
| No | Name of Courses | Total |
|---|---|---|
| GENERAL EDUCATION (GenED) | ||
| I.1 | University Core Requirement | 12 |
| ENGL1010/1020 Academic English course (*) |
3 | |
| ENTR1020 Agile Innovation and Entrepreneurship (**) |
3 | |
| LEAD1030 Leadership and Team building bootcamp (*) |
2 | |
| THINK1010 Critical thinking |
2 | |
| HASS1070 Cross Cultural Navigation |
2 | |
| Total GENERAL EDUCATION (GenED) | 27 | |
| I.2 | VCOR1021/22 Healthy Lifestyle 1,2 (1) |
45 hours |
| Distributional Requirement | ||
| I.2 | HASS1010 Marxism-Leninism Philosophy (Philosophy Science and Society) (2) |
3 |
| HASS1020 Marxism-Leninism Political Economy (Global Political Economy) (3) |
2 | |
| HASS1030 Scientific Socialism (Politics and Social Change) (4) |
2 | |
| HASS1041/42 Ho Chi Minh Ideology (Vietnam: History and Cultures II) (5) |
2 | |
| HASS1050 History of the Communist Party (Vietnam: History and Cultures I) (6) |
2 | |
| Arts Courses (7) (Students select one course in the pool, i.e ARTS1010, MUSI1010, ARTS1020A/B) |
1 | |
| I.3 | Co-curricular Learning OASIS (Orientation – Academic Skills – Identity and Service) |
3 |
| II | NATIONAL DEFENSE EDUCATION | 165 hours |
Notes:
- (*) Academic English 1 (ENGL1010) and Academic English 2 (ENGL1020) applied to Cohorts 2020 and 2021. Since the Academic Year 2022-2023, only one Academic English (3 credits) is compulsory for students, the other is optional. The name and code of the course are tentative and subject to change.
- (**) Agile Innovation & Entrepreneurship will merge into a single course with 3 credits from Academic Year 2022-2023.
- (***) LEAD1010-Leadership development applied to Cohorts 2021. LEAD1020-Organizational Behaviour applied to Cohorts 2020. Since the Academic Year 2022-2023, the LEAD1010, LEAD1020, and Leadership Bootcamp will be integrated into LEAD1030-Leadership and Team Building Bootcamp (2 credits).
- (1) To fulfill MOET’s requirement of Physical Education and university core requirements. MOET requirement for physical education is a 45-hour course (equivalent to 3 credits) but not counted in total credits.
- (2, 3, 4, 5, 6) to fulfill the Vietnam Ministry of Education and Training (MOET)’s requirements on political and ideology education for undergraduate students.
- (7) Arts courses:
- Students can select either ARTS1010 or MUSI1010 to fulfill the art component requirement.
- For the MD program, students must enroll in the Medical Humanities course to fulfill the art component requirement. Students may take other art courses (i.e. ARTS1010 or MUSI1010, etc) as elective one(s).
- National Defense Education is required by the government for all Vietnamese national students and is under CAS implementation.
2. Course description
Please refer to the course catalog to see course descriptions.
