Appropriate for graduate students and upper division undergraduate students. Focuses on skills needed for writing academic papers and research projects. Provides oral presentation practice related to writing assignments. Develops awareness of authentic text types representing various academic disciplines, revealed by corpus linguistics research. Examines considerations of context, audience, purpose, reader writer relationships, and culture.

Builds confidence for writing and speaking in academic and professional contexts for undergraduate and graduate students. Helps students learn to use language accurately and appropriately in written texts and for oral presentations. Includes in-class activities such as grammatical consciousness-raising, text analysis, production practice, proofreading and editing for typical second language errors, and targeted speaking exercises. Helps students chart individual progress by keeping a personal inventory of patterns of errors.

Increases the size and expands the range of vocabulary of advanced ESL students for academic writing, speaking, and listening. Develops fluency through study and practice of lexical phrases. Promotes mastery of the University Word List, developed by researchers, of the most frequently found words in authentic texts in various academic disciplines.

Develops oral communication skills of advanced ESL students for academic formal presentations and informal discussion. Builds confidence and improves intelligibility through focus on English sounds, rhythm, stress, and intonation. Provides guidance and feedback for the attainment of an expert level of second language speaking and listening proficiency.

Not available at this time

Research in preparation for senior honors thesis. Prior arrangement with Program Honors Coordinator and University Honors Program required.

Preparation and writing of senior honors thesis. Prior arrangement with Program Honors Coordinator and University Honors Program required.

Not available at this time

Students in junior or senior year, with faculty sponsorship, may elect to complete a portion of their credit requirements with an internship/study experience coordinated through the Career Center.

Not available at this time