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 Department:    ELA

 Course #:    70

 Credits:    9

 Variable:     No

 IUs:    9

 CIP:    320306

 EPC:    n/a

 REV:    2024

 Course Description  

ELA students with clearly defined academic goals will take an intensive course for English language learners with an emphasis on basic essay structure, academic vocabulary development, grammar skills, and reading strategies that will prepare students for ELA 97.

 Prerequisite  

Prerequisite: CASAS and CaMLA testing, B- (80%) or higher in ELA 060, or permission of ELA and EAP department chairs

Contact Hours (based on 11 week quarter)

Lecture: 99

Lab: 0

Other: 0

Systems: 0

Clinical: 0

Intent: Distribution Requirement(s) Status:  

Academic N/A  

Equivalencies At Other Institutions

Learning Outcomes

After completing this course, the student will be able to:

1. Produce non-research-based but thesis-driven essays (maximum two pages) that include an introduction, body paragraphs, and a conclusion.
2. Write one-paragraph summaries and two-paragraph responses to academic texts that demonstrate ability to paraphrase main points and make connections to personal experience.
3. Write a variety of sentence types including simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences.
4. Use parts of speech with an emphasis on adverb clauses in complex and compound-complex sentences.
5. Use simple, progressive, and perfect verb tenses to correctly write about past, present, or future events.
6. Use level-appropriate academic vocabulary in summaries, responses, and essays.
7. Use subject verb agreement within written sentences and clauses.
8. Effectively revise and edit essays through peer revision, or tutor visits, or instructor feedback.
9. Use MLA document formatting for all formal written assignments.
10. Read academic texts using appropriate reading strategies or Reading Apprenticeship Routines from Reading for Understanding by Schoenbach, Greenleaf, and Murphy (2012).
11. Demonstrate global citizenship, critical thinking, and metacognition.

General Education Learning Values & Outcomes

Revised August 2008 and affects outlines for 2008 year 1 and later.

Course Contents

1. Essay structure
2. Simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences
3. Simple, progressive, and perfect verb tenses
4. Level-appropriate academic vocabulary
5. Paraphrasing and summarizing
6. Revision and editing
7. Reading