Undergraduate Courses

First of three levels intended to develop proficiency in university-level reading and writing. Emphasizes applying critical approaches to reading, practicing writing in a variety of academic styles, and developing grammatical and lexical resources appropriate to a university setting.

Second level in a three-course series intended to develop proficiency in university-level reading and writing. Emphasizes applying critical approaches to reading, practicing writing in a variety of academic styles, and developing grammatical and lexical resources appropriate to a university setting.

Third level in a three-course series intended to develop proficiency in university-level reading and writing. Emphasizes applying critical approaches to reading, practicing writing in a variety of academic styles, and developing grammatical and lexical resources appropriate to a university setting.

Elective course that develops oral skills to help multilingual students, especially international students, participate in classroom activities and engage in campus life. Activities include group discussions, group presentations, interviews, and language focus on vocabulary and pronunciation.

Elective course that focuses on interrelations between reading and writing in academic content areas across the curriculum. Through engagement with readings in humanities, social sciences and sciences, the course provides essential reading strategies and skills for developing comprehension, genre awareness, and critical thinking.

Principles of critical reading, thinking and writing in the university. Students analyze academic discourse, develop rhetorical strategies for exposition and argument, practice examination writing, and write and revise papers. Completion of C or better meets Entry Level Writing Requirement. 

Elective course that focuses on the analysis and practice of English vocabulary and grammatical constructions for a variety of genres in academic writing. Focus on functional language use common across disciplines, such as expressing causation and change of state, creating cohesion, establishing focus and emphasis, qualifying ideas, and reporting research. Attention given to developing language resources and strategies for effective summarizing, paraphrasing and editing.