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3.00 Credits
This course provides an introduction to interaction in academic settings. Emphasis on communication typical in a liberal arts college classroom setting, including active listening, asking questions and contributing ideas and opinions. Strategies include communication outside of he classroom with instructors such as emailing, using office hours and communicating via an LMS (e.g. assignments and discussion boards).
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3.00 Credits
This course is based on specific content such as business, science, or culture. The focus of the course is three-fold: it integrates academic content with academic language skills and learning strategies essential to college success. The course also exposes ESL students to vocabulary and genres specific to the different disciplines; therefore, it prepares students to succeed in the relevant mainstream courses. This is ESL 145.
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3.00 Credits
Advanced ESL grammar and vocabulary course with emphasis on editing, written grammar, and academic vocabulary. Students develop an understanding of the meaning, use, and form of up to 570 on the Academic Word List. This includes the grammatical features of these words and common lexical chunks such as collocations. Alongside vocabulary learning, students learn how to use a variety of grammatical structures effectively. Emphasis is on editing and written grammar. Was ESL 153.
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3.00 Credits
Advanced ESL writing course with an emphasis on authentic college writing assignments. Course includes preparing for college writing in various disciplines with an emphasis on the students' chosen fields of study. Students develop an in-depth knowledge of their degree program, including major courses, teacher expectations, classroom styles, and writing styles. This was ESL 155
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3.00 Credits
This course encourages students to examine cultural values and behaviors, both their own and those of others, as a means to develop intercultural communication skills. The course provides students the opportunity to do the following: explore their adjustment to living in a new culture; improve their cross-cultural communicative competence; learn about global cultures; understand how cultural attitudes and beliefs influence behaviors; and learn how cultural values are expressed through language. (WCore: WCSBS)
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3.00 Credits
Advanced multi-skill ESL course with a focus on American culture, including American cultural values and beliefs. Course includes a survey of American history and current events which may be relevant across academic courses in college. Students develop English reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills through authentic materials, including podcasts, newspapers, films, and novels.
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1.00 Credits
A changing topics course that approaches specific genres, themes, and periods at the introductory level. Possible topics include science fiction, the literature of mystery, introduction to poetry, utopian literature, practical grammar, and the Gothic tradition. Prerequisites: WCore Writing Emphasis (WE) course OR HON 202
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4.00 Credits
This writing emphasis (WE) W seminar focuses on letters as both reading and writing texts. Students will read letters both real and imagined (for example Heloise and Abelard, Frederick Douglass, Roland Barthes' A Lover's Discourse, Sojourner Truth, Madame de Stael, M.L.King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail," Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet, McSweeney's Letters to People or Entities Unlikely to Respond) across a variety of genres. Students will also write their own letters (love letters, rejection letters, condolence letters, complaint letters, etc.) to themselves, their loved ones, the instructor and classmates, the editors of newspapers or magazines, their communities, etc. The course seeks to combine a deep understanding of rhetoric (awareness of audience, purpose, and information literacy) with literary modes across a broad spectrum of relevance. Letters might include emails, texts, and tweets. The seminar aims to teach students the importance of establishing ethos in conjunction with educating one's audience. Workshop format, with at least 20 pages of writing, including multiple drafts of each assignment. The course addresses three college-wide learning goals (writing/critical thinking/creative-reflective), plus diversity, because understanding issues of power, subordination, and privilege are inextricable from creating a standpoint from which to speak. (WCore: WCFAH, WE)
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4.00 Credits
From ancient scriptures to contemporary comics, these literary characters-goddesses, heroes, and "others" (figures marginalized by the dominant group)-rule. This course investigates and supports your investigations of these character types. It poses basic questions asked by many literary critics: where do these characters come from and how are they adapted by so many cultures and literary genres? To answer these questions, we'll delve into current theory and historical research. We'll do our part to keep goddesses, heroes, and others alive! (WCore: WCFAH, RE)
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4.00 Credits
While investigating the history of the detective genre in film and literature, this course compares the work of interpretation with detective work. It is a famous staple of the detective narrative that the detective explains her or his method of detection, often in considerable philosophical detail. In this course, students will imitate these self-reflective detectives by cultivating and describing their own unique methods of interpretation. They will articulate these methods in essays, discussions, and other linguistic performances. (WCore: WCFAH)
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