Please Note: Availability of classes is based on enrollment. Not all courses are offered each semester.

EAPP Foundations (Intensive ESL)
Offered in intensive 8-week sessions with 21 hours of instruction per week, provides students with an introduction to the speaking, listening, reading, composing, and general communication skills necessary for being successful in daily life and college-level study. No minimum TOEFL required.

EAPP Academic Bridge Courses
Offered in intensive 8-week sessions: January, March, June, August, October.
Minimum of 15 weekly contact hours required for full-time students.
Requires minimum 500 PBT, 173 CBT, 61 iBT and EAPP qualifying score on placement test.

EAPP 200 Reading Strategies & Vocabulary Development
Designed to develop reading and writing skills to the level necessary for academic discourse in graduate school. Emphasizes techniques in academic writing such as paraphrasing, quoting, and summarizing as well as building awareness of reading skills like skimming and reading for main ideas. Vocabulary development also emphasized through class readings discussion, and assignments and by utilizing various vocabulary-building strategies. Course goals include: developing critical reading skills, giving and receiving feedback during peer review sessions, increasing awareness of grammar and punctuation, introducing ways to document sources correctly using APA format to avoid plagiarism, identifying personal strengths and weaknesses in reading and writing, and developing strategies to improve upon these shortcomings, and building vocabulary through learning to recognize words in context, grouping related terms, and word formation.

EAPP 210 Academic Discussion & Debate
Designed to develop students’ ability to speak persuasively, and with limited preparation. In the first half of the class, students practice 30-second message, impromptu speaking, and extemporaneous speaking. They also do extensive reading in order to build a base of academic sources to use in later debates. In the second half of the class, students research specific topics and take part in 3 formal debates. In addition to learning speaking skills and research skills, students will hone their critical thinking skills, become familiar with various types of arguments, and expand their vocabulary.

EAPP 215 Academic Research & Writing
Designed to build research writing skills up to a level necessary for academic discourse in graduate school. Focuses on techniques in academic writing such as paraphrasing, quoting, and summarizing. Introduces components and issues pertinent to research and academic writing: thesis development, annotated bibliography, literature review, synthesis, plagiarism, proper citation of sources in APA/Chicago formats. The primary goals of this course include: developing critical reading skills, practicing academic research techniques, increasing awareness of grammar and punctuation, introducing ways to document sources correctly and to avoid plagiarism, writing a literature review for a research paper, incorporating pre-writing skills such as brainstorming and outlining, identifying personal strengths and weaknesses and developing strategies to improve upon these shortcomings, and interacting with peers through discussion and writings to facilitate the revision process and critical analysis of texts.

EAPP 220 Introduction to Public Speaking
Designed to develop students’ ability to prepare and deliver informative speeches in English for academic and professional settings. Students will watch examples of effective and ineffective speeches and investigate the characteristics of a good public speaking. We will then turn to preparation of a speech, covering topics such as finding and evaluating sources, directing a speech at a specific audience, organizing content, and preparing visual aides. Finally, the class will cover delivery of a speech, including topics such as controlling nervousness, body language, and Q&A sessions. At the end of the course, students will present a polished speech at the EAPP Symposium.

EAPP 225 Creative Writing & Fluency
Designed to develop reading and writing skills and increase written fluency through the exploration of creative genres including poetry, prose poetry, short stories, and personal essay writing. Daily writing practice is emphasized to build fluency and comfort in writing to build ideas and communicate. The primary goals include: increasing awareness of grammar and punctuation, learning to use and understand language subtleties and nuances like metaphor to express concrete ideas, reflecting upon life experiences and learning to be comfortable in writing through free self expression, and building vocabulary through active reading.

EAPP 230 Professional Writing & Fluency
Designed to familiarize students with the demands and guidelines of professional writing. Students will learn more about specific professional fields and the particular writing demands within those fields, identifying and learning to write the most common types of writing in their chosen disciplines. Students will gain a basic familiarity with the genres of resumes, business letters, emails, abstracts, and proposals. Includes an investigation of register-appropriate language use such as email etiquette. Students will increase accuracy in grammar, punctuation, and formatting conventions, through peer editing and writing multiple-drafts. Students will also work on their fluency through regular timed writing.

EAPP 290 Accuracy in Spoken English
Provides learners with opportunities to expand and refine oral communication skills in English. Learners work extensively on speaking skills and, by doing so, become more fluent and accurate in their spoken English. Through interactive speaking, summarizing, paraphrasing, and pronunciation tasks, learners will develop an awareness of discourse patterns. To this end, we will explore the appropriate use of spoken English within four major thematic categories: government & politics, law, business & economics, and science. Class time will be spent practicing a variety of speaking skills as well as examining authentic language use in context.

EAPP 295 Active Listening Strategies
Designed to increase student knowledge of strategies used to improve listening comprehension. Provides opportunities to practice listening through exposure to various media, including radio broadcasts, television broadcasts, classroom lectures and everyday conversation; introduces a variety of online media resources useful for practice in listening to authentic English and a structured analysis of listening as an active skill; develops strategies for coping with the challenges of listening, specifically: bottom-up vs. top-down listening, applying background knowledge, memory retention, vocabulary building, concentration & confidence, and listening to the organization/structure of a speech.

EAPP GRADUATE-LEVEL COURSES

Qualified students may take 300/400 level EAPP courses on a space available basis for non-degree tuition rates.

EAPP 310 Oral Communication for International Students
Develops skills and strategies needed for effective participation in academic English classroom tasks and discussions. Enables students to analyze their own speech and interactional styles for needed improvement. Facilitates accuracy and fluency in spoken English.

EAPP 325 Rhetoric and Composing
Focuses on developing students' critical reading and academic writing skills. Designed to prepare students for undergraduate or graduate study in the Provides practice in reading essays authored by professional writers as well as other students. Class activities include in-class writings; vocabulary building; discussion of essays in pairs, groups and as a class; providing peer feedback; research; and outside class readings and writings.

EAPP 375 Content Writing
Exposes IPS/MPA/IEP/ITP/BAIS graduate students to the types of academic prose they will work with in their graduate studies. Students draw on knowledge from in-depth reading and research to produce papers that are logically, completely, and analytically developed. Research paper required. Prerequisite: EAPP 325 or equivalent as determined by writing placement exam.

EAPP 380 Business Communication Skills for International Students
An intermediate level course for students who wish to focus on business communication skills. Conventions of language use and vocabulary development in the business environment are stressed. Assignments include writing from sources, avoiding plagiarism, and composing business documents (e.g., letters, memos). Prerequisite: EAPP 325 or equivalent as determined by writing placement exam.

EAPP 430 Public Speaking for International Graduate Students
Provides training to enhance students' formal oral communication skills. Students present speeches and panel discussions, analyzing videotaped versions for critical review. A seminar for advanced non-native speakers. Prerequisite: EAPP 310 or equivalent, as determined by placement exam.

EAPP 490 Standard American Pronunciation
Designed for advanced-level non-native speakers of English. Provides students with phonetic skills for analyzing and practicing phoneme-, syllable-, word-, and sentence-level features. Includes analysis of authentic native-speaker oral discourse, diagnosis of individual students' particular phonetic needs, and practice with techniques for attaining native-like production in English. Not offered every semester.

EAPP 491 Editing Writing
Designed for students who write effectively at the rhetorical level but have persistent and/or serious linguistic problems at the sentence level. The class operates as a workshop within which students focus on their individual problems as identified in papers they are currently writing for their content courses.

EAPP 495 Writing for Applied Linguistics
Exposes TESOL/TFL students to the academic prose of Applied Linguistics. Students draw on knowledge gained from in-depth reading and research to produce papers that are logically and analytically developed. Not offered every semester.