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 Department:    EAP

 Course #:    50

 Credits:    9

 Variable:     No

 IUs:    9

 CIP:    330108

 EPC:    n/a

 REV:    2024

 Course Description  

An intensive course for English language learners with an emphasis on sentence structure, academic vocabulary development, grammar skills, and reading strategies that will prepare students for EAP 60.

 Prerequisite  

Prerequisite: Appropriate placement test score or instructor permission.

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 simple sentences that use subjects, verbs, objects, complements, and prepositional phrases.
2. Use simple tenses to write about past, present, and future events using both regular and irregular verbs.
3. Use level-appropriate vocabulary.
4. Identify and use parts of speech including nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, prepositions, and conjunctions.
5. Recognize count and non-count nouns; articles; coordinating conjunctions; and modals of permission.
6. Practice subject-verb agreement.
7. Revise sentences through peer revision, or tutor visits, or instructor feedback.
8. Read texts using appropriate reading strategies or Reading Apprenticeship Routines from Reading for Understanding by Schoenbach, Greenleaf, and Murphy (2012).
9. Communicate how power, privilege, equity, and empathy affect our daily lives by engaging with culturally and linguistically diverse texts and media.

General Education Learning Values & Outcomes

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

Course Contents

1. Sentence Structure
2. Parts of speech
3. Simple verb tenses
4. Spelling and level-appropriate academic vocabulary
5. Revising
6. Reading