Study Skills course aims to provide students with insights into the university experience and gives learners a number of useful tips to help them settle into the new rhythms of university life and learning to show them  how to efficiently manage their studies at university.  It attempts, therefore, to help freshmen gain and develop the needed skills, attributes and knowledge that would successfully help manage their studies.

This course is addressed first year LMD students majoring in English as a foreign language. The content of the course is designed in a way that would assist first year EFL students at university life. That is, the course of Study Skills aims to equip the students with a range of essential skills in order to improve their learning process, enhance their achievement and foster their autonomy.

The course is composed of four sections to be covered over a period of 15 weeks per each semester, i.e. a total of 30 weeks over the entire academic year wherein the course is taught twice a week and each session lasts for one hour and a half.