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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This is an English as a Second Language course for non-native speakers. This course is designed to provide non-native students with the opportunity to learn and practice speaking, listening, and notetaking skills, and to develop overall fluency in English. This course prepares students for entry into and the expectations of higher level college classes.
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2.00 Credits
This is an English as a Second Language course for non-native speakers. Culture is an integral part of language learning and affects all aspects of learning. This course will aid students in building useful, comfortable communication skills. Contemporary American culture will be taught through the exploration of everyday experiences and situations such as meeting and getting to know people, participating in social events, attending school, food and eating out, and using current topics about safety issues and the law.
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1.00 Credits
Students learn to increase their pace of reading without sacrificing understanding. This course is designed for those students who already have good comprehension and vocabulary skills.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the demands and conventions of academic reading, inquiry and analysis in tandem with critical and creative thinking. Critical reading focuses on analyzing texts, synthesizing materials, recognizing valid inferences, composing accurate summaries, and discerning main ideas. In addition, critical thinking focuses on evaluating hypotheses, determining relevance of information, determining whether evidence supports the main point, evaluating data for consistency, and recognizing flaws and inconsistencies in an argument. Conclusions drawn from information will be evaluated on credibility, accuracy, and reliability. Thus, Critical Reading/Critical Thinking's purpose is to create more skillful, better-prepared thinkers for college and for the workplace.
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1.00 Credits
This course is recommended for students who have good reading skills and want to expand their knowledge of words.
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1.00 Credits
The one credit class is designed to help students identify what stress is and how it impacts them emotionally and physically. Students will learn and utilize various relaxation skills as a means of effectively managing and/or reducing the negative impact of stress.
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1.00 Credits
This course offers students the ability to understand and explore personality differences by combining several methods of learning in a relaxed environment. Students will develop an understanding of their own personality and learn how to identify possible areas for personality growth within their life.
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3.00 Credits
This course emphasizes writing practice. One part of this course focuses on writing improvement through daily assignments, the development of the paragraph and essay, and the study of grammar. Students will also develop writing skills through listening to, sharing, and commenting on fellow students146 paragraphs and essay(s) by the peer exchange or workshop method. The structure of the formal essay will be introduced. However, discussion, role play, viewing or reading media sources, field trip (for a descriptive paragraph), pronunciation, and other activities will also be used in order to use the full range of English skills.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to provide non-native students with the opportunity to practice speaking and listening skills, and to develop fluency in English. Students who need to improve basic communication and practice speaking the English language will benefit from this course. Every activity in this course emphasizes listening and speaking English. Students are also prepared for the expectations of college courses.
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3.00 Credits
This course covers the fundamentals of reading and vocabulary skills and the application of these skills to assist non-native and international students in becoming more efficient readers in the academic setting.
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