Program Perjumpaan Mingguan Dan Latihan Mingguan Kelab DE’PIKIR (Mandirin Division) is organized weekly on Tuesdays in all academic semesters since the foundation of debate club. Its purposes are to deliver general debate knowledge as well as to build team bonding and collaboration among club members.
During the week 6 of semester 1 in session 2021/2022, an inter-debate competition welcoming the freshman members was organized by the committee member. The acitivity was conducted from 8pm to 10pm so that the participants had ample of time taking part in the extra-curricular activity after lectures. Throughout the activity, the freshman members opened up the discussion evolving around the debate topic of “Self-discipline or Heteronomy Is More Important.”. Discussion sparks were noticed as the participants expressed their opinions in respective of their standpoints.
The activity conducted involves several graduate attributes which are communication skills, thinking skills, leadership and teamworking skills and global citizen. The reason I joined the activity is to develop essential soft skills as mentioned in the graduate attributes in leisure time after lecture classes meanwhile to carry out the duty as a committee member. As the activity falls under the leadership category, participants are encouraged to work in a team to discuss trends of current issues. Paying attention to the current issues is the responsibility of a global citizen and this is the core aim of the activity conducted to spread its importance among university students.