ESL 009 Western Worldview
This course presents American philosophies and worldviews to students, explores how American philosophies and worldviews have been rooted in the country since it was established, and shows how American philosophies and worldviews have been playing a significant role in transforming the country and people.
ESL 010 American Culture
This course provides an introduction to American culture that is adjusted to the appropriate Chinese cultural approach and comparison. It helps students understand the core values of American culture and the fundamental beliefs of the country.
ESL 021 Intermediate Speaking & Listening
This course focuses on developing students’ oral communication skills, including their ability to make integrated presentations, participate in face-to-face conversations on topics going beyond the most immediate needs, and identify the main ideas and factual information in level-appropriate listening passages. To help students improve listening comprehension and pronouncing difficult words, note-taking skills in academic lecture situations and acquiring listening strategies will be practiced. Upon successful completion of this course, students are equipped with speaking and listening skills at a basic college level.
ESL 022 Intermediate Grammar & Writing
This course focuses on developing students’ writing skills, so that they can draft well-structured paragraphs, informal essays, and formal papers. Instructions include grammar, vocabulary, and reading skills, which are necessary to obtain writing skills such as sentence structure, paragraph organization, and essay construction. Upon successful completion of this course, students are equipped with writing skills at a basic college level.
ESL 023 Intermediate Reading I
This course helps students develop a wide range of reading abilities and a good understanding of grammatical structure. Students will learn to use a variety of pre-reading strategies to become more effective readers, to abstract main ideas from a text, and to identify expository organization in a text and the role that specific information serves within its larger context. Upon successful completion of this course, students are equipped with reading skills at a basic college level.
ESL 031 High Intermediate Speaking & Listening
This course develops ideas from Intermediate Speaking and Listening and focuses on developing more advanced skills in students’ oral communication skills, including their ability to make integrated presentations, participate in face-to-face conversations on topics going beyond the most immediate needs, and identifying the main ideas and factual information in more advanced listening exercises. To help students improve listening comprehension and pronouncing difficult words, professors will encourage students to use note-taking skills in academic lecture situations, and the class will practice listening strategies. Upon successful completion of this course, students are equipped with speaking and listening skills at a more advanced college level.
ESL 032 High Intermediate Grammar & Writing
This course develops ideas from Intermediate Grammar and Writing and focuses on developing more advanced skills in students’ writing, ranging from well-structured paragraphs to informal essays and formal papers. Instructions include more advanced grammar, vocabulary, and reading skills, which are necessary to obtain an understanding of sentence structure, paragraph organization, and essay construction. Upon successful completion of this course, students are equipped with writing skills at a more advanced college level.
ESL 033 High Intermediate Reading
This course develops ideas from Intermediate Reading and helps students develop a wide range of advanced reading abilities and a good understanding of grammatical structure. Students will learn to use a variety of pre-reading strategies to become more effective readers, to abstract main ideas from the text, and to identify a text’s expository organization and the role that specific information serves within its context. Upon successful completion of this course, students are equipped with reading skills at an advanced college level.
ESL 061 Advanced Speaking & Listening
This advanced speaking and listening course concentrates on helping students improve their speaking and listening comprehension skills to reach an advanced undergraduate and graduate level, including understanding main ideas and specific details of recorded passage on academic and general interest topics; recognizing how pieces of information are connected; synthesizing information; expressing oneself clearly with only occasional errors of pronunciation, grammar, or vocabulary; and taking notes while listening and summarize the information orally. Upon successful completion of this course, students are equipped with speaking and listening skills at an advanced undergraduate level.
ESL 062 Advanced Grammar & Writing
This advanced grammar and writing course helps students strengthen grammar such as the English tenses and complex and compound sentences. This course also focuses on the principles of paragraph structure, basic essay organization, formatting and revision, and knowledge of writing grammatical and idiomatic papers. Upon successful completion of this advanced level of course, students are equipped with writing skills at an advanced undergraduate level.
ESL 063 Advanced Reading
This advanced reading course concentrates on helping students improve a variety of academic reading skills to reach an advanced undergraduate and graduate level, including developing reading skills (skimming for main ideas and scanning for specific information) as well as higher-level skills (making inferences and distinguishing between facts and opinions). Upon successful completion of this course, students are equipped with reading skills at an advanced undergraduate level.
ESL 071 High-Advanced Speaking & Listening
This course develops ideas from Advanced Speaking and Listening and concentrates on helping students improve their speaking and listening comprehension skills to reach a high-advanced undergraduate and graduate level, including understanding main ideas and specific details of recorded passages on academic and general interest topics; recognizing how pieces of information are connected; synthesizing information; expressing oneself clearly with only occasional errors of pronunciation, grammar, or vocabulary; and taking notes while listening and summarize the information orally. Upon successful completion of this course, students are equipped with speaking and listening skills at a high-advanced undergraduate or basic graduate level.
ESL 072 High-Advanced Grammar & Writing
This grammar and writing course develops ideas from Advanced Grammar and Writing and helps students strengthen grammar such as the English tenses and complex and compound sentences. This course also focuses on the principles of paragraph structure, basic essay organization, formatting and revision, and knowledge of writing grammatical and idiomatic papers. Upon successful completion of this course, students are equipped with writing skills at an advanced undergraduate or basic graduate level.
ESL 073 High-Advanced Reading
This reading course develops ideas from Advanced Reading and concentrates on helping students improve a variety of academic reading skills to reach a high-advanced undergraduate and graduate level, including developing reading skills (skimming for main ideas and scanning for specific information) as well as higher-level skills (making inferences and distinguishing between facts and opinions). Upon successful completion of this course, students are equipped with reading skills at a high-advanced undergraduate or basic graduate level.