(Saturday, 3/3/2018) Entering the millennial era requires students to be more competitive in various fields, including mastery of foreign languages. In facilitating this, the IP FISIP-UMM study program collaborates with UPT. KBA UMM in the process of teaching and learning about languages, such as Arabic, French, English, German, Korean and others. This program must be followed by 3rd and 4th semester students.
In addition to aiming to equip students and improve the quality of human resources with language, this program aims to (1) achieve the vision of the Study Program, namely “making the FISIP-UMM Government Science study program a center of superior education in the development of international standard government science and practice to support the realization of Effective Government as an embodiment of Islamic values; (2) preparation for the implementation of the student sit-in / credit transfer program at overseas universities - the program is carried out in semester 6; (3) preparation for the implementation of government research internships. Student interns will be placed in international NGOs and (4) preparation for the implementation of international class programs. In addition to the above, there are several advantages that will certainly be directly obtained by students if they follow this foreign language skinny. Such as being able to directly participate in the sit-in program and thesis proposal.
It should be noted that foreign language skills are very important capital to get scholarships to study at home and abroad, as well as capital to face competition in the world of work in the millennial era like today.
