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3.00 Credits
This course introduces the intermediate level speaker of English to readings of more challenging vocabulary and more varied type, such as newspaper articles, short stories, and brief technical selections. An emphasis is placed on vocabulary building skills and reading skills such as scanning for detail. Writing tasks are based mainly, but not exclusively, on the readings and include short essay-length compositions of different rhetorical categories, as well as summaries, outlines, paraphrases, and letters. 3:0:3
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Students continue to develop their reading and writing skills and expand their vocabulary in preparation for advanced level classes. Students will read longer and more challenging texts of varying types; writing assignments will be based mainly, but not exclusively, on these readings. 3:0:3
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This class teaches students speaking and listening skills necessary for academic success. Students will focus on improving spoken grammar, vocabulary, listening comprehension, pronunciation and fluency. Class activities will include in-class discussions, individual and group oral presentations, pronunciation exercises and spoken instruction. Students will be exposed to American rhetorical forms, including political debate, music lyrics, academic lectures and sports/entertainment/cultural commentary. 3:0:3
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Students continue to develop the speaking and listening skills necessary for academic success. They will be exposed to listening material of an academic nature, such as recorded lectures, news broadcasts, etc. and will participate in oral activities of an academic nature, such as presentations, debates, discussions, and so on. The course will also emphasize communicative skills and strategies to enable students to check on meaning, clarify misunderstandings, and get their own meaning across more clearly. 3:0:3
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3.00 Credits
Students in EI221, Intermediate Grammar, revisit and expand their acquaintance with basic verb tense/aspect categories, adding the perfect aspect. The different aspects of English verbs are contrasted, in order to better explain and demonstrate their use and distribution. Students' knowledge of categories (such as nouns, etc.) and structures (such as phrases, clauses, etc.) is expanded. The passive voice and factual, future, and present unreal conditionals are introduced. Students' use and become more familiar with modals. 3:0:3
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3.00 Credits
Students continue to consolidate their grasp of basic English grammar. In the verb system of English, particular attention is paid to the various forms of the perfect aspect, conditionals and modals. In the noun system, students' knowledge of what may constitute a noun is expanded; and other structures such as noun, adjective, and adverb phrases, and independent/ dependent clauses are examined. 3:0:3
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3.00 Credits
This course teaches students to integrate diverse English skills, including speaking, listening, reading and writing, into holistic language use. Students will build on language skills by increasing reading comprehension, writing fluency and speaking fluency. May be taken as independent study. 3:0:3
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3.00 Credits
This course broadens and deepens students' exposure to American culture through examination and analysis of American music, movies, TV, literature, art, and other media. Students in this course put their English into practice and demonstrate knowledge of American culture by producing a project elucidating an aspect which interests them. It is designed to build upon the skills of cultural analysis taught in EI145, American Culture, but may be taken on its own. 3:0:3
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3.00 Credits
This advanced course introduces students to increasingly more sophisticated reading selections, such as they will encounter in academic courses. Students continue to increase their vocabulary and develop advanced reading skills such as skimming. Writing tasks are based mainly, but not exclusively, on the readings and include essay-length compositions of different rhetorical categories, as well as an autobiography, cover letters and resumes. 3:0:3
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3.00 Credits
This class teaches students speaking and listening skills necessary for academic success. Students will focus on improving their spoken grammar, vocabulary, listening comprehension, pronunciation and fluency. Class activities will include in-class discussions, individual and group oral presentations, pronunciation exercises and grammar instruction. Students will learn how to participate in complicated speaking/listening situations, as participants in debate, and presenting academic oral presentations. 3:0:3
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