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 Department:    EAP

 Course #:    70

 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 basic essay structure, academic vocabulary development, grammar skills, and reading strategies that will prepare students for EAP 97.

 Prerequisite  

Prerequisite: Appropriate placement test score; C or higher in EAP 60; 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 Elective  

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 of assigned readings that demonstrate ability to paraphrase main points.
3. Respond to assigned readings by writing two-paragraphs using connections to personal experience.
4. Identify a variety of sentence types including simple, compound, complex, and compound complex sentences.
5. Use parts of speech with an emphasis on adverb clauses in complex and compound complex sentences.
6. Use simple, progressive, and perfect verb tenses to write about past, present, or future events.
7. Use level-appropriate academic vocabulary in summaries, responses, and essays.
8. Use subject verb agreement within written sentences and clauses.
9. Revise essays through peer revision, tutor appointments, or instructor feedback.
10. Use MLA (or APA) document formatting for all formal written assignments.
11. Read academic texts using appropriate reading strategies or Reading Apprenticeship Routines from Reading for Understanding by Schoenbach, Greenleaf, and Murphy (2012).
12. 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. Essay structure
2. Simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences
3. Simple, progressive, and perfect verb tenses
4. Level-appropriate academic vocabulary
5. Paraphrasing
6. Revision
7. Reading