English for Academic Purposes (Certificate)

Admissions

• Students must meet the pre-requisites for each individual course or complete an English Language Placement Assessment.

Learning Outcomes

At the completion of the program students will be able to:

• Critically evaluate academic readings and literary essays for content, quality and logical development
  • Evaluate argument for validity, reliability, and objectivity
  • Recognize the organizational methods used to develop a topic or an argument
  • Examine the connections between purpose, audience, and style in a variety of readings
  • Recognize the difference between facts and opinions
  • Recognize the difference between ideas and support
  • Summarize, make inferences, draw conclusions and evaluate readings critically
  • Select relevant sources of information for research purposes
• Produce academic assignments using the writing process, including brainstorming, outlining, drafting, revising, and editing
  • Identify purpose and audience in order to choose suitable language and organizational styles
  • Write various types of paragraphs and essays in and out of class
  • Use concrete evidence such as statistics, quotations, and anecdotes in writing
  • Edit written work for content, structure, grammar, punctuation, and usage
  • Connect ideas coherently
  • Access, evaluate and use a variety of sources, which may include personal knowledge, interviews, print, and electronic based-media
  • Integrate research into an essay or report
  • Cite and document sources where necessary using academic citation practices
• Present information and ideas orally using effective language in both formal and informal situations
  • Give and respond to feedback respectfully and appropriately
  • Collaborate and consult effectively with others in completing tasks
  • Recognize and respect intercultural diversity and individual differences
  • Select and use effective visual and/or auditory presentation aids
• Demonstrate academic reading, critical thinking, and discussion skills while examining works of literature
  • Examine how historical context, including cultural, social and political factors, shapes both literature and the understanding of literature
  • Identify and respond to themes of literary works
  • Identify and use appropriate literary terms, such as metaphor, irony, and setting, when analyzing fiction, poetry, and drama
  • Distinguish between the meanings of literal and figurative language
  • Identify and respond to cultural differences through literature
• Plan and produce coherent and well-organized written assignments based on literary texts
  • Produce different types of literary writing assignments, including essays
  • Integrate quotations and paraphrases from literary works correctly into paragraphs and essays using academic citation practices
  • Support an understanding of theme with reference to relevant literary devices

Curriculum

Program Completion

The completion of both ELD 092  and ELD 094 , or ELD 097  will indicate that the student has developed the listening, speaking, reading and writing skills required to enter college level programs and will provide the student with a Certificate in English for Academic Purposes.