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ESL097 English as a Second Language II
0 credits; 9 hours (7 lecture, 2 lab)

This course, for students with some knowledge of English, develops students’ proficiency in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Listening and pronunciation receive careful attention. Similarities and differences between written and spoken language are emphasized. At the end of the course, students must demonstrate their overall proficiency by passing departmental listening, reading, and writing examinations.
Prerequisite: Placement exam

This course helps intermediate-level ESL students to improve their reading and writing skills and also provides practice in listening and speaking. All of the activities focus on expanding the students’ knowledge of English and developing fluency in all of the skills. At the end of the course, students must demonstrate increased competency in writing as well as in reading, speaking, and listening.
Prerequisite: ESL097 or placement exam

This course provides extensive practice in reading, writing, listening, and speaking using college-level materials and helps students to increase their vocabulary and study skills. Its purpose is to enable students to express ideas in acceptable written and spoken English.
Prerequisite: ESL/ESR098 or placement exam

ESR098 English as a Second Language III for Selected Readers
0 credits; 10 hours (6 lecture, 4 lab)
(Equivalent to ESL098)

This is an accelerated course that focuses on expository writing, speaking, and critical reading skills for the non-native speaker of English and is open only to those students who achieve a predetermined level based on the reading placement test. Oral presentations and/or themes will follow the discussion of reading selections used to improve the students’ ability to think critically. These selections and the students’ compositions will be used for grammar and vocabulary instruction. Students will practice all the language skills and at the end of the course are expected to use English with greater fluency and facility.
Prerequisite: Placement exam

ESR099 English as a Second Language IV for Selected Readers
0 credits; 8 hours (6 lecture, 2 lab)
(Equivalent to ESL099)

This is an accelerated ESL099 course that provides extensive practice in reading, writing, listening, and speaking using college-level materials and helps students increase their vocabulary and study skills. Its purpose is to enable students to express ideas in acceptable written and spoken English. Final compositions read by both ESL and English Department faculty determine placement in English Department courses.
Prerequisite: ESR098 or placement exam

This course aims at introducing and developing college-level writing proficiency for non-native speakers of English through careful attention to the second-language writing process. Emphasizing the writing process, contrastive rhetoric, and grammatical accuracy, the course will prepare students for college-level writing, as well as timed, high-stakes testing. Students will learn to identify and correct grammatical errors they are likely to make when they write. In addition, students will learn to employ argument and other rhetorical modes in the short essay form to clearly express ideas written in edited American English.
Prerequisite: ESL/ESR099 or waiver

This course is designed to reinforce the language development of non-native speakers of English enrolled in Fundamentals of Nursing (SCR 110). The course gives students supplemental instruction in the sub-technical vocabulary of topics covered in SCR110. The course allows for practice in paraphrasing technical information into the language of the layperson, speaking about hospital clients, writing progress notes, and taking multiple-choice examinations. Students receive support and individual attention from an ESL professional.
Corequisite: SCR110