The Faculty of Information and Communication Studies (FICS), UP Open University (UPOU) welcomes its new students for 1st Semester/Trimester 2020-2021 through a Student Orientation on 12 September 2020 (Saturday) at 2pm. The student orientation will be held online, live streamed through the FICS Facebook page.
The FICS Student Orientation aims to prepare new students for their UPOU life for the upcoming semesters/trimesters. They will also be introduced to their program faculty members, lecturers, tutors, and support staff. A separate orientation will also be held for each program under FICS to answer any program-related concerns of the students.
Due to a large number of students, the Master of Development Communication (MDC) program and the Bachelor of Arts in Multimedia Studies (BAMS) will have its program orientation through Facebook Live, also streamed through the FICS Facebook page. Meanwhile, the Doctor of Communication (DComm), Master of Information Systems (MIS), and Diploma in Computer Science (DCS) programs will have separate orientations via zoom.
The schedule for the program orientations will be as follows:
FICS encourages its students to attend the orientation to help them start their semester off as smoothly as possible.
Written by Gian Rose Cerdena & Emely Amoloza
Edited by Joane V. Serrano
