Integrated Academic Skills. Permission of instructor. A maximum of four ELI credits may be counted toward a degree. The course focuses on improving skills needed across disciplines, including reading and vocabulary building, lecture comprehension and notetaking, writing and discussion.
Class meetings are four to five hours per week.
A student receives a passing grade if she or he has attended classes regularly, successfully completed specified assignments and performed satisfactorily on a final evaluation task. Reading and Vocabulary Development. Permission of instructor. A maximum of four ELI credits may be counted toward a degree. This course is designed for non-native graduate and undergraduate students who have sufficient language proficiency to be admitted to the University, but who could profit from instruction in reading strategies appropriate for processing academic texts and in the structure of English academic vocabulary.