EDUCATIONAL CURRICULUM OF BACHELOR

Major: Archivology

CODE: 52320303

Persuant to the decision No3596/QD-DHQGHN Dated September, 30,  2015  of the President of University of Social Sciences and Humanities)

 

INTRODUCTION TO CURRICULUM

1. Main information about the program        

- Name of curriculum:

+ Vietnamese: Lưu trữ học

+ English: Archivology

- Code: 52320303

-Graduation level: Bachelor

- Duration of study:  4 years

- Name of       degree

+ Vietnamese: Cử nhân ngành Lưu trữ học

+ English:        The Degree of Bachelor in Archivology

- Assigned training institution: The University of Social Sciences and Humanities – VNU,Hanoi

2. Educational objectives

Graduates from this program are expected to earn background knowledge; academic and supplementary insight in records management and archives to practice fundamental professional duties; assist leaders in managing records and archives; research and lecture on these aspects

3. Admission

- Admission procedures are compatible to regulations of VNU, Hanoi.

 

GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS

1. Courses and professional abilities
   1. Courses

Graduates have thorough theoretical knowledge in the educated major; apprehend the techniques and have practical knowledge to resolve complex tasks; have main knowledge about basic principles; natural and social rules in the educated field, in order to develop comprehension and have ability to continue to the higher education; have knowledge about management, execution, law and environmental protection related to educated major and have particular knowledge and ability in following subjects:

• 1. 1. General courses
• Remember, understand and can explain the basis of  science according to Marx – Lenin, Ho Chi Minh ideology idea and revolution path of  Vietnam Communist Party; Defense and Security and other supportive abilities.
• Have basic ability to use at least one foreign language with listening, speaking, reading and writing skills equivalent to level 3 of Vietnam six-level framework for foreign language assessment.
  1. 2. Sectoral courses
• Remember, understand and well apply research methods in the area of social science and humanity in general and archival sciences in particular.
• Remember, understand and well apply the knowledge about government, culture, psychology, natural and social environment in the major of records management and archives.
  1. 3. Basic courses

Understand and well apply the theory of document studies, information science, information for leadership and management, general archival studies

1.1.4. Specific courses

• Understand and have a thorough grasp of the role of records management in the operation of organizations

- Have a thorough grasp and well apply academic knowledge of document studies and records management including: history, document in operation,  information for leadership and management; state/organization management of records

1.1.5. Advanced courses

• Understand the role of archive works and the value of archival document to society and organizations
• Understand and well apply academic knowledge of archival studies and archive works, including: state management of archives, archives management in the National Archives Centres and other organizations
• Understand and well practice fundamental professional duties of archives; apply achievement of information technology in archives of National archives, local archives and the archives of other organizations

- Understand and well apply knowledge in practice; collect and process information; analyse and initiate solutions to enhance the effect of operation

1. 2. Autonomous ability and responsibility

Having leading skills in educated major and proposing emerging issues in appointed missions; good self-orientation  and effectively adapting to diverse working environment; constantly self-educating to update researching and working abilities; good abilities to finalize specific issues of related work; excellent skill in planning, coordinating and exploiting collective ideas; excellent possibilities and innovating academic duties at an average level.

2. Skills
   1. Major’s skills
      1. Professional skills

Have skill to complete complicated tasks, require apply both theoretical and practical knowledge in different cases; have ability to analyze, summarize and assess database and information; summarize collective ideas and using new innovations in order to resolve practical or abstract in the educated major; have ability of professional guidance and problem solving for local or regional problems.

• Compose some popular kinds of document created in the operation of organizations and businesses professionally
• Manage the system of document created in the operation of organization
• Set records and manage records created in the process of doing duties, guide others to creat and manage these records
• Manage and use the seal of organization

• Appraise the value of archival document and collect archival records
• Correct and edit archival document Scientifically
• Organize archival document Scientifically
• Preserve and restore archival document
• Utilize the Archival Document
• Utilize information sources supporting the operation
• Support the leader in records and archives management
• Communicate in administration area professionally
• Operate the application program of information technology to support records and archives management
• Operate equipments to support records and archives management

2.1.2 The ability of thinking and argument, dealing with problems
- Noticing and shaping issues related to managing and operating records and archives works

- Proposing solutions in managing and operating records and archives works

- Taking solutions and recommendations for managing and operating records and archives works

2.1.3 The ability of researching and discovering knowledge
- Searching and updating knowledge on managing and operating records and archives works
- Synthetizing the materials of managing and operating records and archives works
- Researching records and archives works management and operation
- Applying the results of research and reality into managing and operating records and archives works

2.1.4 The ability of logical thinking

- Have systematic and logical ways of thinking about the problems of records and archives management duties

- Detecting the problem and relations among records and archives management duties
- Determining the priorities in records and archives management duties
- Analysing, selecting the core issues and taking solutions to deal withrecords and archives management duties

- Having multidimentional thinking

2.1.5 The social context

- Evaluating the social context in relation to major field, and determining the role ofa bachelor of Archivology

- Planning and choosing appropriate methods applied to changes and requirements of work, as well as utilizing the personal knowledge and skills to develop
- Taking advantage of the progress in global job development

2.1.6 The organizational context

- Being conscious of the organizational context and adapting to the requirements of work in diverse organization models such as governmental organization, non-governmental organization, businesses, schools and so on

- Connecting with media in internal organization, developing the organization's culture and achieving suceess in their work.

2.1.7 The ability of applying knowledge and skills into reality

- Raising ideas on archival works

- Creatively and flexibly applying knowledge into records and archives management 
- Fluently using professional skills of  records and archives management
- Actively handling the equipment for work

2.1.8 The ability of creating, developing and adjusting to the changes in works
- Predicting the development trend of records and archives management in integrational period
- Shaping objectives for records and archives management adapt to development trend
- Good planning skills to archieve set targets
- Fluently implementing the plan

2.2 Supplementary skills
2.2.1 The personal skills
- Excellent abilities in organizing plans
- Promptly adapting to the changes of living and working environment
- Having an inquiring mind and researching in whole life
- Analysing the colleague to self-improve

2.2.2 Working in groups
- Effectively guiding the group to work
- Well managing the group's activities
- Developing the group
- Effectively Leading the group
- Flexibly working with the diverse groups

2.2.3 Management and leadership

-  Being honest, reliable and responsible at works

• Professionally behaving in organizing
• Excellent abilities in management and arrangement.
• Holding responsibility under the law about personal decisions at works

-  Having negotiation and convince skills on other groups or people

2.2.4 The communication skills
- Well building up the communication strategy
- Well arguing and ordering communicating ideas in specific cases
- Fluent communicating in writing
- Flexibly communicating via e-mail/media
- Good presentation skill
- Good communication with colleagues

2.2.5 The ability of using foreign languages in communication

     Having foreign language skill capability at the adequate level in order to understand main ideas of a report or speech of the familiar topics , related to the educated major; can use foreign language to deal with some normal situation; can write simple reports, express ideas in the situation related to the major.

2.2.6 The other supplementary skills
- Skillfully using computer and software to process and preserve information, in order to meet the requirements of archives management

3. The moral qualities
3.1 The individual moral qualities
- Solemn
- Hard working, enthusiast
- Independent, persistent

- Ready to face the challenges, odds

3.2 The professional moral qualities
- Responsible

- Professional

- Active working

- Independent and innovative

3.3 The social moral qualities
- Having collective responsibility
- Obeying Law
- Ready to secure the truth and supporting progressive innovation

4. Job positions of graduates
- Leader or staff of records management and archives of organizations and businesses

- Lecturers of training institutes in records management and archives at vocational, college and university level
- Researchers of research institutes records management and archives

5.Chances of higher education

- The opportunity to study up to higher level such as MA, PhD and become scientists, join the staff of records management and archives centre/institutes/ research bodies

TRAINING PROGRAM

1. Summary of curriculum requirements

Total credits accumulated: Block of general knowledge in VNU (excluding the physical eductaion, defense and security Education, supporting skills): Block of knowledge by Field : + Required: + Optional: Block of knowledge by majore: + Required: + Optional: Block of knowledge by group of major: +Required: + Optional: Block of knowledge by specific major: + Required: + Optional:  Annual Assignment, interships and graduation thesis:

134 credits     27 credits 26 credits 20 credits 6/10 credits 18 credits 12 credits 6/15 credits 18 credits 12 credits 6/17 credits 45 credits 20 credits 12/24 credits   13 credits

 

2. Curriculum Framework

No.	Code	Course	Credits	Credit hours			Code Prerequisite course
				Theory	Practice	Self study
I		Block of general knowledge (M1)	27
	PHI1004	Fundamentals of Marxist– Leninist Philosophy 1	2	24	6
	PHI1005	Fundamentals of Marxist– Leninist Philosophy 2	3	36	9		PHI1004
	POL1001	Ho Chi Minh's Ideology	2	20	10		PHI1005
	HIS1002	Revolutionary Guidelines of  Vietnam Communist Party	3	42	3		POL1001
	INT1004	Informatics	3	17	28
		Foreign Language 1	4	16	40	4
	FLF2101	English 1
	FLF2201	Russian 1
	FLF2301	French 1
	FLF2401	Chinese 1
		Foreign Language 2	5	20	50	5
	FLF2102	English 2					FLF2101
	FLF2202	Russian 2					FLF2201
	FLF2302	French 2					FLF2301
	FLF2402	Chinese 2					FLF2401
		Foreign Language 3	5	20	50	5
	FLF2103	English 3					FLF2102
	FLF2203	Russian 3					FLF2202
	FLF2303	French 3					FLF2302
	FLF2403	Chinese 3					FLF2402
		Physical Education	4
		Defense- Security Education	8
		Supporting Skills	3
II		Block of knowledge by field (M2)	26
II.1		Required courses	20
	MNS1053	Research Methods	3	36	9
	HIS1056	Foundation of Vietnamese Culture	3	42	3
	HIS1053	History of World Civilizations	3	42	3
	PHI1054	Introduction to Logics	3	31	14
	THL1057	Introduction to Government and Laws	2	20	5	5	PHI1004
	PSY1051	General Psychology	3	45
	SOC1051	General Sociology	3	39	6
II.2		Optional Courses	6/10
	INE1014	Introduction to Economics	2	20	10
	EVS1001	Environment and Development	2	26	4
	MAT1078	Statistics for Social Sciences	2	20	10
	LIN1050	Practicing on Vietnamese Texts	2	20	10
	LIB1050	Introduction to Information Literacy	2	20	10
III		Block of knowledge by major (M3)	18
III.1		Required courses	12
24	ARO1100	General Archival Science	3	39	6
25	LIB2001	Introduction to Information science	3	40	5
26	LIB1100	Introduction to Library science	3	40	5
27	LIB1101	Document Study	3	45
III.2		Optional courses	6/15
28	SIN1001	Basic Sino-Nom	3	30	15
29	HIS1100	General Vietnamese History	3	42	3
30	ANT1100	General Anthropology	3	39	6
31	LIB1102	Information for Leaders and Managers	3	45
32	LIT1101	General Vietnamese  Literature	3	45
IV		Block of knowledge by group of major	18
IV.1		Requires courses	12
33	ARO1150	History of State and Law in Vietnam	3	36	9
34	ARO3056	Records Work Organization	2	26	4
35	ARO3002	Composing and Issuing Management Documents	2	20	10
36	ARO3003	Document Management	2	26	4		ARO3056
37	ARO3057	Record Setting and Management	3	30	15		ARO3056
IV.2		Optional courses	6/17
38	ARO3027	Information Management	2	22	8
39	MNS2064	Introduction to Administrative Studies	3	36	9
40	ARO1151	Introduction to Office Management	3	36	9
41	CAL2004	Vietnam Administration Laws	2	26	4
42	ARO1162	Human Resources Management	3	30	15
43	ARO1152	Office Receptions	2	22	8
44	ARO1153	Ethics in Service	2	22	8
V		Block of knowledge by specific major	45
V.1		Required courses	20
45	ARO3033	Document Scientific Organization	5	50	25		ARO1100
46	ARO3034	Document Preservation and Restoration	2	22	8		ARO1100
47	ARO3035	Utilizing the Archival Documents	3	30	15		ARO1100
48	ARO3023	Standards in Records Management and Archial Work	2	26	4
49	ARO3060	Archive history	3	39	6
50	ARO3019	State Management on Records and Archival Work	2	24	6		ARO1100
51	ARO3024	Applying Informational Technologies to Record and Archive Work	3	30	15
V.2		Optional courses	12/24
52	ARO3015	Archives of Scientific Technological Documents	4	45	15		ARO3033
53	ARO3014	Archives of Audio-Visual Documents	2	26	4		ARO3033
54	ARO3016	Archives of Electronic Documents	2	26	4		ARO3033
55	ARO3058	Records and Archival Work in Economic Organizations	2	26	4		ARO3033
56	ARO3059	Records and Archival Work in Political, Political and Social Organizations	2	26	4		ARO3033
57	ARO3020	Historical Sources Studies	2	26	4
58	ARO3007	Scientific Labor Organization and Equipments in Office	2	22	8
59	ARO3030	Presentation Skills	2	18	12
60	ARO3061	Archives Insurance	4	36	24		ARO3033
61	ARO3062	Marketing in Archive	2	26	4		ARO3033
V.3		Annual assignment, interships and graduation thesis	8
62	ARO4050	Field Work	3	5	30	10	ARO3056/ARO3002/ARO3003/ARO3057
63	ARO4051	Internship	5	10	55	10	ARO3033/ARO3034/ARO3035/ARO4050
64	ARO4052	Graduate Thesis	5
		Replacement Subjects	5
65	ARO4057	Theories and Methods on Record works	2	24	6
66	ARO4058	Theories and Methods on Archive works	3	36	9
		Total	134