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UC Undergraduate
Studies Catalog 2019-2023 Section IV Extra-Curricular
Activities to Facilitate Students’ Rounded Development |
This is an
umbrella group
for the various student organizations at The University of Cambodia, under
the auspices of Office of Student Services.
i. UC Student Senate The UCSS
constitutes a group of students elected by the general student population at
the start of each calendar year. During its mandate, they are responsible for
planning and organizing various activities, including the Khmer and
International New Year parties; the UC Welcome Week for new students prior to
the start of Term I; and various other extracurricular activities to facilitate
interactions amongst students, faculty, staff, and the community at large.
ii. UC Cambodian Red Cross Youth The UCCRCY,
a local branch of the Cambodian Red Cross Youth, comprises students who learn
First Aid skills and are involved in various social and humanitarian activities
for the benefit of those in need.
iii. UC Debate Club This Club aims to improve students’ oratory skills and build up their
confidence in public speaking. In addition, the practice of debating particular
controversial topics helps participants to further develop their analytical and
critical thinking skills, as well as those related to leadership and teamwork.
ü As a result, the Club has successfully participated in televised
debating contests against other universities.
iv. UC Sports Club This includes
a football team and an athletic team, which have each participated in various
friendly and competitive national-level matches.
2.Skills and Career Development Center
This Center designs and runs workshops and short
courses for UC students, as well as providing individual counselling, to help
them to better develop relevant soft skills and thereby further their progress
at the university and in their subsequent careers. Examples of such activities include public
speaking classes, curriculum vitae (CV) and cover letter writing, interview
preparation workshops, scholarship application assistance, study abroad
assistance, mentoring programs, and volunteer/internship opportunities.
This
annual event seeks to promote Cambodia’s development by connecting students,
job seekers, and professionals with recruiters, mentors and advisors to match
employment and career objectives.
This
innovation, introduced in 2016, provides a week-long forum where invited
experts from outside give talks to share their experiences and give UC and
other students insights on how they can use their
educational and other opportunities in order to better achieve their personal
career goals.
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Various other initiatives by
individual Colleges and Schools are organized towards the same end, as outlined
in the University’s Annual Report (2017).
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For example:
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many activities to develop soft skills organized by the Skills and Career
Development Center; and
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various presentations, workshops
and study tours, organized by different Colleges and Schools, where partners,
stakeholders and others can increase students’ awareness of not only the
various employment and other opportunities but also the soft and other skills
expected of successful applicants.
5. Students’ Academic Leadership
Conference
This
annual event is an exercise where undergraduate students of each College or
School are required to plan and organize their own session of presentations to
the rest of the UC community, in order to stimulate interest in their
particular field of study. This helps to enhance the soft skills of those
students who are involved in preparing and doing their presentations, not just
with regard to public-speaking but also the necessary background research and
the development of convincing arguments; as well as the organizational skills
of those involved in the overall running of the Conference. Moreover, it helps
to set a standard for students in subsequent such activities to not only aspire
to but also inspire them to realize that they can also do it.
6. Distinguished Lecture Series
Up
until now, UC has hosted ambassadors, film stars, Nobel Laureates, foreign
professors, and other local and international government officials.
These
series of invited lectures, including the Diplomatic Lecture Series for
example, help our students and other members of the UC community to keep in
touch with the world at large, based on insights provided by top-tier members
of the global community. More broadly, it serves to enhance the networking capacity
through the cultivation of meaningful relationships with these and other
individuals, for our students and others alike.
These
are open to our students as well as the general public, with the aim of
encouraging life-long learning.
As
their name implies, they aim to give concise coverage of particular fields of
interest. As such they provide either introductions to particular new fields of
interest (language courses and certain IT-related ones) or higher-level courses
which aim to provide deeper insights into a particular area of interest for
those with background experience in that field or those other professionals who
wish to develop an understanding of ancillary dimensions of their existing area
of expertise.
i. Language Courses The School for Foreign Languages
offers a variety of different non-degree courses catering for different
interests. The Department of English Language has taken over the variety of
programs previously run by the Center
for English Studies, including the ‘FasTrax’
suite of intensive English language courses designed to bring potential
students up to speed for the University’s International-track degree programs;
this set of courses also sets out to further develop an individual’s soft
skills, including organizational and
time management skills and research, critical thinking and essay-writing
skills. Various other options are available such as courses
in English for Specific Purposes for
those who wish to learn terminology and vocabulary related to a particular
profession or area of study.
Similar
programs of short courses are available for Mandarin Chinese, French, Japanese,
Korean and Thai.
ii. IT-Related Courses The College of Science and Technology offers a variety of courses, from
the novice to the potential expert level, in various aspects of the use of
computer applications (see Section
III.3).
Whilst
various basic courses (including practical hands-on experience) are aimed at
the development of an individual’s soft skills in the use of various computer
software, high-level ones provide advanced-level implementation of skills
related to computer security and other specialized aspects of recent
developments in IT.
iii. Other Professional and
Executive-Related Courses Other Colleges and Schools
offer courses relevant to their particular domains which serve to provide
participants with in-depth insights into specific aspects of a particular
topic, whether to supplement their existing background or to otherwise augment
it. The
Skills and Career Development Center (Section IV.2) can be contacted for
further information.