ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE

School of Humanities and Liberal Arts

ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE (ESL)

ESL-40 FOUNDATIONS IN ACADEMIC LITERACY I FOR NON-NATIVE SPEAKERS

5 units: 5 hours lecture.
CSU & UC Transferable

This course is intended for ESL students. This course focuses on effective critical reading and thinking skills, research strategies, scholarly composition with proper documentation, and advanced editing skills. Students compose a range of academic writing informed by assigned readings, discussion, and/or research using primarily non-fiction source material. (11/20)

ESL-84E FOUNDATIONS IN ACADEMIC LITERACY II FOR NON-NATIVE SPEAKERS

5 units: 5 hours lecture.

This course is intended for students whose primary language is not English. At a low-advanced ESL level, this course focuses on effective critical reading and thinking skills, research strategies and academic composition with proper documentation. Students write a range of increasingly complex short essays informed by assigned readings, discussion, and/or research using a variety of source material including non-fiction. (12/18)