Critical Thinking A
Course Description: This course is designed for advanced ESL students. Using authentic radio commentaries from National Public Radio, it presents an integrated approach to developing critical thinking skills. Each unit explores a controversial issue of international appeal. Students will be called upon to
discuss the commentaries with the aim of assimilating different points of view, thereby challenging previously held beliefs. The writing exercises focus on a grammatical structure used in the commentary. These structures have been chosen to respond to the advanced learner’s needs in developing more sophisticated forms in writing.
Reading & Writing 2-C
Course Description: This course is designed for advanced ESL students. It presents new themes and updated content from a variety of genres. Students will be called upon to think critically and use utilize academic skills such as inferencing, synthesizing, and note taking. Students will also develop their writing
proficiency through enhanced composition sections.
Reading & Writing 2-B
Course Description: This course is designed for advanced ESL students. It presents new themes and updated content from a variety of genres. Students will be called upon to think critically and use utilize academic skills such as inferencing, synthesizing, and note taking. Students will also develop their writing proficiency through enhanced composition sections.
Advanced 103
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COURSE NAME |
COURSE CODE |
CEFR |
HOURS |
WEEKS |
TEXTBOOK UNITS |
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ADVANCED 103 |
A03 |
C2 |
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5 |
PASSAGES 2 UNITS 9-12 |
Course Description: This course is designed for advanced ESL students. It presents new themes and updated content from a variety of genres. Students will be called upon to think critically and use utilizes academic skills such as inferencing, synthesizing, and note taking. Students will also develop their writing proficiency through enhanced composition sections.
Course Goal: Students will develop their competence in reading and writing in various rhetorical modes.
Course Objective: Students will practice reading both literature and academic selections and writing critically about same.
Student Learning Outcome: Students will be able to read academic level texts and literary pieces and write analytically about what they have read.
American Culture C
Course Description: This course is designed for advanced ESL students. It explores many aspects of American culture using a values approach for discussion and reading. Students will be called upon to discuss their own cultures as to how the are the same as or are different from American culture. They will also develop their vocabulary using the context of the reading selections.
American Culture B
Course Description: This course is designed for advanced ESL students. It explores many aspects of American culture using a values approach for discussion and reading. Students will be called upon to discuss their own cultures as to how the are the same as or are different from American culture. They will also develop their vocabulary using the context of the reading selections.
American Culture A
Course Description:
Course Description: This course is designed for advanced ESL students. It explores many aspects of American culture using a values approach for discussion and reading. Students will be called upon to discuss their own cultures as to how the are the same as or are different from American culture. Students will also develop their vocabulary using the context of the selections.
Listening & Speaking 2-C
Course Description: This course is designed for advanced ESL students. It integrates critical thinking and an enhanced focus on academic skills such as drawing inferences, synthesizing, note taking and test taking to help students develop strategies for success in the classroom and on standardized tests. Students will be called upon to listen to authentic radio reports, interviews, or other genre that addresses the unit topic. Then, the class members will discuss the selection they have heard, make inferences about it and, finally, express their opinions. Thus listening and speaking are
integrated.
Intermediate 109
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COURSE NAME |
COURSE CODE |
CEFR |
HOURS |
WEEKS |
TEXTBOOK UNITS |
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INTERMEDIATE 109 |
I09 |
B2 |
30 - 45 |
5 |
PASSAGES 1 UNITS 9-12 |
Course Description: This course is designed for advanced ESL students. It integrates critical thinking and an enhanced focus on academic skills such as drawing inferences, synthesizing, note taking and test taking to help students develop strategies for success in the classroom and on standardized tests. Students will be called upon to listen to authentic radio reports, interviews, or other genre that addresses the unit topic. Then, the class members will discuss the selection they have heard, make inferences about it and, finally, express their opinions. Thus listening and speaking are integrated.
Course Goal: Students will develop their competence in critical listening and speaking with poise.
Course Objective: Students will practice listening for main ideas, details and implied content. They will also practice thinking critically about what they hear and expressing themselves orally in a cogent fashion.
Student Learning Outcome: Students will be able to understand native English spoken in authentic settings and to draw inferences from same. They will also be able to clearly assert in English their reasoned opinions about controversial topics.
Advanced 102
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COURSE NAME |
COURSE CODE |
CEFR |
HOURS |
WEEKS |
TEXTBOOK UNITS |
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ADVANCED 102 |
A02 |
C2 |
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5 |
PASSAGES 2 UNITS 5-8 |
Course Description: This course is designed for advanced ESL students. It integrates critical thinking and an
enhanced focus on academic skills such as drawing inferences, synthesizing, note taking and test taking to help students develop strategies for success in the classroom and on standardized tests. Students will be called upon to listen to authentic radio reports, interviews, or other genre that addresses the unit topic. Then, the class members will discuss the selection they have heard, make inferences about it and, finally, express their opinions. Thus listening and speaking are integrated.
Course Goal: Students will develop their competence in critical listening and speaking with poise.
Course Objective: Students will practice listening for main ideas, details and implied content. They will also practice thinking critically about what they hear and expressing themselves orally in a cogent fashion.
Student Learning Outcome: Students will be able to understand native English spoken in authentic settings
and to draw inferences from same. They will also be able to clearly assert in English their reasoned opinions about controversial topics.
