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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This class will assist students in achieving intermediate academic listening and speaking skills. Students will enhance their skills in giving presentations, debates, and class discussion; demonstrate critical thinking skills through negotiation, expression of opinions and speech persuasion; and broaden their academic vocabulary through the exploration of collocations and idioms. Aspects of American culture, especially university culture , will be covered as well. Placement into the course will be determined by Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL), International English Language Testing Sytstem (IELTS), or Center for English as a Second Language (CESL) Placement Test score.
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3.00 Credits
Students in this course will develop the academic presentation skills necessary for presenting in undergraduate seminars or professional meetings. Students will learn techniques for audience analysis, selection and organization of materials, developing and supporting arguments, dealing with questions, and effective oral delivery. Several videotaped oral presentations are required. Placement into this course will be made on the basis of the Test of English as a Foreign Language, International English Language Test, or Center for ESL Placement Test results.
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3.00 Credits
Improving Pronunciation is a classroom-based course that focuses on comprehensible articulation of vowels and consonants as well as the rhythm, stress and intonation of North American English speech. This course should be taken by students who are already fluent in English, but who want to improve their pronunciation skills for more effective communication through practice activities that include speech/sound analysis, dialogue generation, role-play, and simulation and ethnographic assignments.
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3.00 Credits
This course will focus on the cultural aspects of verbal and non-verbal behavior, values, and communication styles while developing effective communication patterns in professional and pre-professional settings.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to enhance student skills utilizing techniques for effective listening, note-taking strategies, reading, and writing skills for studying. In addition, it will introduce the student to the expectations of the American classroom culture.
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3.00 Credits
This course emphasizes critical reading, writing, and textual analysis with particular focus on argument and research-based writing. International students may take this course in lieu of ENGL 1001.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed for international students in their first year studying at the University of Cincinnati. While exploring various aspects of American culture, this course also focuses on developing critical thinking skills, and improving students' understanding of cultural similarities and differences between the US and their home country. The goal of this course is to familiarize students with their host culture, while developing strategies to succeed in their new academic and social environment. Content information will be provided through readings, lecture, interviews, and guest lecturers/presenters.
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3.00 Credits
This course emphasizes critical reading and writing, advanced research and argument skills, and rhetorical understanding of language as it is used in different discourse communities.
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1.00 - 12.00 Credits
Special Topics in English as a Second Language (ESL) courses are designed for specific groups of students whose academic units have indicated a particular need not met by other existing ESL courses. Each Special Topics course will be developed by the Center for ESL in collaboration with the academic unit that requests the course.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed for international graduate students who need to improve their writing skills in order to become competent in basic academic English in the style commonly accepted in American universities. At the end of the course the students will be able to recognize and use vocabulary and grammatical structures common in academic writing and to produce texts employing a variety of modes of discourse.
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