Undergraduate Courses

First of four levels designed to develop university-level students' English language proficiency in reading and writing. Emphasizes academic writing as a process and supports students' ability to identify strengths and weaknesses in their own reading and writing skills with a focus on academic English grammar, vocabulary and self-editing strategies. 

Second level in a four-course series designed to further develop university-level students' English language proficiency in reading and writing. Emphasizes the revising and editing components of the academic writing process with a focus on improving students' ability to engage and integrate source texts with greater rhetorical sophistication. 

Third level in a four-course series designed to further develop university-level students' English language proficiency in reading and writing. Emphasizes taking critical approaches to source texts, building grammatical and lexical resources needed to write more complex arguments and engaging with a greater range and depth of source material. 

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.

Fourth level in a four-course sequence designed to further develop university-level students' English language proficiency in reading and writing. Emphasizes critical reading and improving synthesis writing skills across a range of academic genres. Students advance critical and analytical writing skills with a focus on rhetorical strategies. 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.