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Faculty of Modern Languages and Communication History |
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The basis for the formation of the faculty can be traced to the implementation of the Language Act 1967, which gave birth to the National Language and English Language Divisions of the Agriculture College of Malaya. 1971 | - | The two divisions merged to become the Language Division. | 1972 | - | The section (Language Division) was upgraded to become the Language Department and was placed under the Faculty of Agriculture. | January 15,1975 | - | The department was placed under the Faculty of Educational Studies (formerly the Faculty of Educational Services). | January 4, 1995 | - | The Language Department was upgraded to become the Faculty of Modern Language Studies. | January 1, 1999 | - | The Department of Communication Development, which was under the Faculty of Human Ecology, joined the faculty under a new name, the Department of Communication, and the faculty was thus renamed the Faculty of Modern Languages and Communication. |
The faculty now consists of four departments : the Department of Malay Language and Linguistics, the Department of English Language, the Department of Foreign Languages and the Department of Communication. The Department of Malay Language and Linguistics conducts courses in Malay Language and Linguistics, Malay Literature, as well as writing courses and Malay proficiency courses. The Department of English Language conduct courses in English Language, Literature and English proficiency, while the Department of Foreign Languages offers courses in foreign language such as Arabic, Japanese, Mandarin, Korea, Thai, Bengali, French, Spanish, German, Tamil, Myanmar language, Vietnamese, Persian and Russian.The Department of Communication conducts courses in human communication, corporate communication, journalism, broadcasting, communication technology, mass communication and developmental communication.
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