SEXUAL HARASSMENT AMONG ARCHITECTURE STUDENT IN

UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA PERAK CAWANGAN SERI

ISKANDAR

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1.INTRODUCTION

According to Ashgar Ali Ali Mohamed (2015), sexual harassment is one of the contemporary silent issues in
academic setting in the schools and institutions of higher education.The above topic has become a climax and
has been hotly debated in various circles in the recent past.

defines sexual impact on the perceives as symptoms such Malaysia's

harassment victim's work threatening or hostile as stress national laws
and trauma
2.PROBLEM STATEMENT

The following research questions have prompted the researchers to conduct the study on sexual harassment from from
selected local universities pursuing masters and PhD(Farheen Baig Sardar Baig)(2015):

victims are most commonly environment and society are

familiar with female students the biggest reasons for
the term ‘sexual sexual harassment
harassment’

Malaysian education system’s

Agreed that sexual harassment is
increasing among Malaysian public and emphasis on a western syllabus
private universities
3.OBJECTIVE
The purpose of this study is to investigate sexual harrassment among architecture student in UiTM Cawangan
Perak Seri Iskandar.This study suggests several research objectives to be attained as follows:

level of awareness of determine the environment identify how students cope

sexual harassment and society are the biggest with sexual harassment
among student reasons for sexual harassment
4. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

The findings of the study shows that sexual harassment do happens among architecture students in
Universiti Teknologi Mara Perak, Seri Iskandar

information about sexual provide students with relevant

harassment information on how to overcome their traumatism and
depression problems
5.LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY

There are several potential limitations in this study. The respondents

themselves may not be honest with the questionnaire due to being
ashamed of sexually harassed somewhere in the past. Besides,the scope
for this study is only limited to students taking their Bachelor’s Degree
of Architecture in UiTM Seri Iskandar. As the number of the students are
quite small,the results cannot be generalized to all UiTM students.
6.LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY

Several local studies investigating the issue of Sexual Harassment among University students.Ashgar
Ali Ali Mohamed, Farheen Baig Sardar Baig, Adnan Trakic, Muzaffar Syah Mallow and Ahmad Tijani
Surajudeen (2015) surveyed eighteen (18) students as participants from selected local universities
pursuing masters and PhD courses were selected

Shariffah Nuridah Aishah Syed Nong*, Asiah Bidin, Akmal Mohamad, Noraida Harun and Nur Amani Pauzai (2013)
conducted in a campuses of a university where a total of 354 undergraduate students from all faculties were
systematically selected as respondents, comprising both female and male students.
7.METHODOLOGY

This study will be conducted at UiTM Seri Iskandar, Perak. The subjects of this study will be students
taking Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Architecture

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8.QUESTIONNAIRE