The English Department, a 4-year-undergraduate degree program, focuses on developing skills that promote competencies for communication and digital media practitioners through updated curriculum. The curriculum renewal aims to encourage the growth of the competencies supported by the desired knowledge, skills, and attitudes. English language competence is being created to help social, communicative, and interpretative abilities. It uses English language performance, values from English literature, and cross-cultural norms generated from critical thinking, evaluating, and decision-making while reading literature.
To adjust to the change in occupational structure, which involves using computers more frequently while having less direct social interaction, digital competencies are being developed to help students with the skills they need to perform the tasks of communication and digital media practitioners. The competencies enable English Department graduates from UNIKOM to work part-time or in some other flexible working pattern, either telecommuting, job sharing, or flexitime employment. Except for other official and permanent jobs, such as English teachers, they might work in fields like content writers, copywriters, UX writers, or translators.
With a focus on those profession-mandated competencies, the curriculum renewal offers 64 courses, divided into compulsory and elective. They might be identified as personality development (character building), science and skill (knowledge and skill acquisitions), knowledge and skill application, and understanding social values (understanding societal values). Additionally, these courses emphasize language literacy and digital literacy. English and Indonesian linguistics, English literature, cross-cultural understanding, English language teaching, and language-communication-marketing interdisciplinary approaches are all topics included in the language literacy courses. In addition to language literacy, they give official applications, web technology, communication technology, and multimedia applications in digital views. Each class has a set of course learning outcomes (CLOs) representing the students’ success after completing the learning process. The study plan typically contains teaching methods and assessments for each intended program learning outcome (PLO). The curriculum has been designed to encourage the development of language and digital competencies that can assist graduates in entering the workforce in the 21st century.