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Course Criteria
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Provides an orientation to the University. This course is designed to help new students with making their transition into the University community. Topics include University technology assets, time management, study strategies, career/major exploration, academic planning, electronic learning portfolio development, and other topics selected to help freshmen succeed academically, personally, and socially. This course promotes discussion and active learning about topics important to new students and provides opportunities for students to form connections with their instructor and fellow students.
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Combines business cases with language-focused exercises to practice business English and bring the realities of the business world to the student. Designed to develop students' communication and vocabulary skills. Focuses on problem-solving and decision-making activities. Offers students the opportunity to study cases, do exercises, and participate in other business-related activities, as well as using a glossary of business terms to perfect their grasp of idiomatic business English. Students have the opportunity to learn how to write case analyses and summaries and how to make recommendations and suggest plans of action. Requires students to participate in online discussions of each case.
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Designed to improve English skills while students learn about their respective academic fields in this survey course. Through readings, discussion, site visits, and lectures by University mentors, students have the opportunity to develop their understanding of current events in their field from an American cultural perspective. Class activities include workshops, lectures, and a final team project.
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Designed to provide advanced English language students with the confidence and skills they need to participate successfully in American university classes. It is designed to be communicative, eclectic, broad, interesting, provocative, and interactive. Offers students an opportunity to learn to analyze, to synthesize, and to produce facts and information on demand, as well as to improve their critical thinking skills. The course targets vocabulary expansion, pronunciation, idioms, cultural discussion, and current events. Addresses grammar issues as needed.
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Emphasizes practical applications of critical thinking concepts to strengthen thinking, reading, and study strategies across the disciplines. Skills include analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating information, as well as previewing, finding main ideas and details, summarizing, classifying information, and locating signal words. Offers students the opportunity to review and sharpen study skills such as time management, memory techniques, note taking, and exam taking. Reviews methods for researching, organizing, and writing term papers and for making presentations. Readings and research assignments address the primary theme of the course: identity. We explore three aspects of identity: self-perception and personal insight, interpersonal relationships, and social and ethical identity. In keeping with Northeastern's mission and the basic tenets of critical thinking, the course is relevant to both academic and "real-world" challenges
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Offers students the opportunity to move across texts and genres (such as expository essays, fiction, or film), thus focusing on composition basics and the use of metaphor, organization, selection, gaps and silences, tone, and point of view. Through a series of sequenced assignments, students have an opportunity to read fiction and nonfiction texts of some complexity, make the critical interpretation of these texts the occasion for their own writing, write expository prose that makes use of a variety of rhetorical strategies, conduct library research when appropriate, reflect on and assess their writing, and refine their documentation skills. Requires students to write multiple drafts and emphasizes the writing process as well as the quality of the finished product. Students must keep a portfolio of their work.
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Explores methods for researching, organizing, and writing term papers and for making presentations. Offers students an opportunity to learn how to do research, to paraphrase and summarize effectively, and to cite their sources. Offers special attention to individual writing needs, and inaccurate grammar points are identified, discussed, and worked on as needed.
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Designed to integrate grammar, listening, and speaking skills. Through the use of grammar and listening/speaking texts, teacher-made materials, and a variety of supplemental activities, students have an opportunity to build confidence, increase vocabulary, improve speaking and presentation skills, expand their knowledge of American culture, and develop greater overall competence in English. Emphasizes promoting fluency and ability using all grammar functions. The course is designed to help meet academic needs through discussion, presentations, reading, vocabulary, grammar, and writing activities.
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Offers students an opportunity to gain the knowledge and skills necessary to excel in a U.S. college environment. Focuses mainly on understanding classroom formats and expectations; investigating common styles of interaction; practicing techniques for effective communication; and developing listening and speaking skills necessary for classroom success. The students' personal and cultural experiences in the classroom form the basis of this course.
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Studies the patterns of globalization in media and communication, in terms of cultural integration, international production and distribution, and cultural sovereignty. Examines how these communication patterns intersect with issues of community, ethnicity, and race, both locally and internationally.
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