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Course Criteria
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6.00 Credits
This course is designed to improve the listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills of students who speak English as a Second Language. Emphasis is placed on learning English and developing reading writing, and communication skills in everyday and academic situations. Classroom activities include small group work, oral presentations, role playing, vocabulary work, and writing assignments. Prerequisites: Appropriate score on placement test or successful completion of Beginning ESL. Prerequisite: ACS 106. 6 credits
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3.00 Credits
This course guides students who have mastered fundamentals of English to develop academic fluency in reading, writing, listening, speaking, and thinking directly in English. Emphasis is placed on reading college level materials, understanding and responding to rapid academic and social speech, writing extended expressive and analytical essays from sources, and making an oral presentation on an academic topic. Exploration of cultural experiences and perceptions will facilitate building students' confidence in functioning in a multicultural, English language classroom. Prerequisites: Appropriate placement score or successful completion of Intermediate ESL. Prerequisite: ACS 107. 6 credits.
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3.00 Credits
In this course, ESL students learn techniques to improve their pronunciation in spoken English, developing confidence and versatility in communicating orally in various situations, and improve listening comprehension of rapid speech. Formal and informal English, cultural and regional dialects, slang, and professional jargon will be covered. Class activities will use videotapes, audiotapes, role playing situations, videotaping students and follow-up analysis, and group discussions. 3 credits
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3.00 Credits
A systemic approach to building vocabulary. Students check their progress against standardized tests such as TOEFLs and SATs. 3 credits
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3.00 Credits
This course is specially designed to assess and improve a student's reading efficiency in various academic areas. Skills stressed are pre-reading, finding the main idea, recognizing patterns of organization, understanding relationships and abstract concepts. 3 credits
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3.00 Credits
A course designed to help master the skills familiar to successful college students: note-taking, paraphrasing, summarizing, outlining, using study maps, organizing information in meaningful ways, and test-taking techniques. Materials from all academics will be used for the application of skills in laboratory settings. 3 credits
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3.00 Credits
This course provides ESL students who have special abilities, interests, and challenges in developing their academic English that are not able to meet their needs in existing courses, with a specialized instructional framework for doing so. Enrollment in this course requires approval by the Dean. 3 credits
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students who have not experienced life in the USA to the American culture and reality, using methods and sources that will help them feel more comfortable with the English language, better understand American humor, cultural allusions and references, and avail themselves of the rich sources of knowledge in the Greater Boston area. Students can expect to use an English-only advanced learner dictionary to think directly in English to better understand their intellectual environment. 3 credits
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3.00 Credits
This course presents the reasons for conducting appropriate health appraisals on all new exercisers prior to beginning their fitness program. This course explores the relationship between physical activity and health, and specifically focuses on the evaluation of cardiopulmonary and musculoskeletal fitness in apparently healthy populations. Risk factor analysis, body composition assessment, aerobic fitness testing, muscle strength testing and flexibility assessments will be discussed as they relate to an individual's probability for developing a disease. This course addresses numerous assessment protocols for evaluating important fitness parameters such as determining individualized training intensities by means of heart rate monitoring and ratings of perceived exercise exertion. Students will demonstrate a thorough knowledge and understanding of the assessment principles and procedures, as well as the ability to properly perform and interpret each assessment technique. 3 credits
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3.00 Credits
This course addresses the principles for improving muscular fitness and cardiovascular fitness in youth, adult and senior populations. The emphasis is on practical application of the training guidelines and the expected physiological adaptations resulting from various exercise programs. Students will demonstrate a thorough understanding of exercise theory, training effects and program design for enhancing muscular strength and cardiovascular endurance in apparently healthy individuals. 3 credits
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