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 Department:    EAP

 Course #:    60

 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 paragraph structure, academic vocabulary development, grammar skills, and reading strategies that will prepare students for Connect III.

 Prerequisite  

Prerequisite: Appropriate placement test score; C or higher in Connect I, 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 well-developed paragraphs that include a topic sentence and supporting sentences.
2. Write a variety of sentence types including simple and compound sentences.
3. Write one-paragraph responses to readings that make connections to personal experience.
4. Use simple and progressive verb tenses to write about past, present, or future events.
5. Identify parts of speech
6. Use level-appropriate vocabulary in writing assignments.
7. Use subject verb agreement within written sentences.
8. Revise paragraphs through peer revision, tutor visits, or instructor feedback.
9. Use MLA (or APA) document formatting for all formal written assignments.
10. Read texts using appropriate reading strategies or Reading Apprenticeship Routines from Reading for Understanding by Schoenbach, Greenleaf, and Murphy (2012).
11. 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. Paragraph structure
2. Simple and compound sentences
3. Simple and progressive verb tenses
4. Level-appropriate academic vocabulary
5. Revision
6. Reading