College Preparation
Graduate 1 -college preparation: 12 weeks (20 hours per week)
This course prepares non-native students to achieve their academic goals at a US college or university. They will examine classroom procedures, professor-student interaction, thinking styles and learning styles. They will also be skilled in techniques for effective reading, writing and critical thinking in a variety of academic fields. Student will demonstrate these techniques through assignments and projects.
Graduate 2 - college preparation: 12 weeks (20 hours per week)
This course is designed for non-native speakers of English. The reading component emphasizes patterns of essay organization, relationships of paragraphs within essays, and understanding of the author's purpose, audience, tone, and mood.
Reading and research materials highlight cultural content and contemporary issues in American society and serve as models and prompts for compositions. Essays will focus on research and the development and organization of ideas using complex sentences in coherent, well-developed paragraphs.
