An oral skills class which emphasizes language needed to understand, study, and negotiate information in academic settings. Students learn to sustain interactions with classmates and professors, ask for clarification, report the talk of others, and make classroom presentations based on original survey research and reading. Focuses on information processing. Students listen to planned and unplanned academic discourse and read related academic texts. This course is designed to introduce students to various academic reading and writing demands.
Students read and analyze academic texts and write papers based on the information in the texts.
Cross-Cultural Perspectives of American Culture Provides an understanding of what culture is and how it influences behavior and beliefs. Provides cross-cultural perspectives on the American value system and American institutions. Academic Discourse Designed to help students develop oral fluency, with emphasis on comprehensibility, in interpersonal and academic settings. Students make oral presentations and are critiqued. An introduction to contemporary topics in culture and language.