Universiy Core Courses (Ungs Subjects): Their Roles and Importance in Strengthening Soft Skills (Kemahiran Insaniah) Among IIUM Students
Keywords:
Soft skill, SDG, core courses, UNGS, educationAbstract
Developing and producing good graduates require an integrated and balanced curriculum and co-curriculum.The wisdom from this great synergy ingrained in the program offered to students would develop students’ intellect and ignite their superb soft skills and sustainable degree of resilience. IIUM’s university core courses consisting of three UNGS subjects become the solid, highly impactful intellectual and philosophical foundation to stimulate high level thinking capability crucial in nurturing creativity and problem solving skills. The outcome of exposure and engagement with these subjects and their methods of assessment would certainly bring about profound concsciousness among IIUM students to further pursue and extend their soft skills for the benefit of the greater ummah inside and outside the university in line with the IIUM’s commitment and objective to ‘humanize’ education.
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