Courses in English Language Institute (Division 363)

ELI 110. Integrated Academic Skills I.

Permission of instructor. A maximum of four ELI credits may be counted toward a degree. (1). (Excl). Offered mandatory credit/no credit.

Designed for non-native undergraduates and graduates. The course focuses on improving skills needed across disciplines, including speaking informally and in discussion, conversational listening and lecture comprehension, reading and vocabulary building, and writing. Evaluation on the basis of assignments, class participation and examination.

ELI 112. Integrated Academic Skills II.

Permission of instructor. A maximum of four ELI credits may be counted toward a degree. (2). (Excl). Offered mandatory credit/no credit.

Designed for non-native undergraduates and graduates. The course focuses on writing skills and reading and discussion.

ELI 120. Academic Writing for Undergraduates.

Permission of instructor. A maximum of four ELI credits may be counted toward a degree. (1). (Excl).

Designed to assist undergraduates in training and practice in the necessary style and organization for effective academic writing. Evaluated by assignments and final exam.

ELI 300. Writing and Grammar in Academic Contexts.

Permission of instructor. A maximum of four ELI credits may be counted toward a degree. No credit granted to those who have completed or are enrolled in ELI 100. (2). (Excl).

Designed for non native graduate and undergraduate students. The course focuses on the organization and grammatical accuracy of academic prose. Grammatical emphasis is on article usage, appropriate tense choice, coherence and nominalization. Two hours per week plus tutorial.

ELI 310. Reading and Vocabulary Development.

Permission of instructor. A maximum of four ELI credits may be counted toward a degree. (1). (Excl).

Designed for non-native undergraduates and graduates. This course introduces a range of reading strategies and teaches the structure of English academic vocabulary. One and a half hours per week.

ELI 312. Spoken and Written Grammar in Academic Contexts.

Permission of instructor. A maximum of four ELI credits may be counted toward a degree. (1). (Excl).

Designed for non-native undergraduates and graduates. Course topics concentrate on accurate uses of English grammar in spoken and written contexts. One and half hours per week.

ELI 320. Writing for Academic Purposes I.

Permission of instructor. A maximum of four ELI credits may be counted toward a degree. (1). (Excl).

Designed for non-native undergraduates and graduates. The course offers training and practice in paragraph writing (process descriptions, data-commentaries, introductions, problem-solutions). One and a half hours per week.

ELI 321. Writing for Academic Purposes II.

Permission of instructor. A maximum of four ELI credits may be counted toward a degree. (1). (Excl).

Designed for non-native undergraduates and graduates. A more advanced course than 320 designed to improve proficiency in a wider range of academic text-types and to introduce students to meta-discoursal considerations). One and a half hours per week.

ELI 330. Language and Communication I.

Permission of instructor. A maximum of four ELI credits may be counted toward a degree. (1). (Excl).

Designed for non-native undergraduates and graduates. This course introduces students to a range of interpersonal communication and academic language skills. Two hours per week for ten weeks.

ELI 332. Lecture Comprehension.

Permission of instructor. A maximum of four ELI credits may be counted toward a degree. (1). (Excl).

Designed for non-native undergraduates and graduates. The course focuses on listening skills within an academic context. (1) Subject matter lecture comprehension, (2) para-linguistic cues in academic interactions, and (3) cross-cultural differences. Three hours per week for seven weeks.

ELI 333. Interactive Listening and Communication.

Permission of instructor. A maximum of four ELI credits may be counted toward a degree. (1). (Excl).

Designed for non-native undergraduates and graduates. The course emphasizes the development of effective listening strategies. It features communicative exchanges in classroom, seminar, discussion and lab situations. Two hours per week for ten weeks.

ELI 334. Speaking in Academic Contexts.

Permission of instructor. A maximum of four ELI credits may be counted toward a degree. (1). (Excl).

Designed for non-native undergraduates and graduates. The course focuses on speaking skills within an academic context. There is an emphasis on reading as a basis for class discussion. Two hours per week for ten weeks.

ELI 336. Pronunciation I.

Permission of instructor. A maximum of four ELI credits may be counted toward a degree. (1). (Excl). Laboratory fee ($11) required.

A basic course; the first in a sequence of two courses of detailed focus on pronunciation; designed to enable non-native speakers of English to improve intelligibility through modification of articulation and voice qualities and to develop self-learning skills of speech monitoring and speech modification. May be followed by Pronunciation II.

ELI 337. Pronunciation II.

ELI 336 and permission of instructor. A maximum of four ELI credits may be counted toward a degree. (1). (Excl).

An low-intermediate course; instruction in the use of English vocal prosodics, mechanics of speech articulation, and speech stylistics; designed to enable students to increase fluency, accuracy, and communicability in spoken English.

ELI 338. Voice and Articulation.

Permission of instructor. A maximum of four ELI credits may be counted toward a degree. (1). (Excl).

A high-intermediate speech/pronunciation course designed to enable non-native speakers of English to enhance their accuracy and fluency through instruction and aspects of voice control and articulatory phonetics. Includes a focus on general elements of oral communication and communicability.

ELI 340. Accuracy in Academic Speaking and Writing.

Permission of instructor. A maximum of four ELI credits may be counted toward a degree. (1). (Excl).

Designed for non-native graduate and undergraduate students. This course is designed to focus on enabling students to recognize and understand differences between closely related grammatical structures and to modify their grammar in order to improve their academic communication skills.

ELI 380. Introduction to International Teaching Assistants Instruction.

ITA screening exam and permission of instructor. A maximum of four ELI credits may be counted toward a degree. (1). (Excl). Offered mandatory credit/no credit.

Designed for potential ITAs; consists of a class element and a workshop element. Provides practice in comprehension of classroom discourse and the production of communicative acts necessary to the classroom. Two hours per week for ten weeks.

ELI 381. ITA Communication Skills.

ITA screening and permission of instructor. A maximum of four ELI credits may be counted toward a degree. (1). (Excl). Offered mandatory credit/no credit.

Designed for potential ITAs; Course provides an opportunity to develop a range of communication strategies, appropriate for the context of the classroom, lab and office hour.

ELI 392. Topics in English for Non-native Speakers.

Permission of instructor. A maximum of four ELI credits may be counted toward a degree. (1-2). (Excl).

Special courses arranged for selected non-native speakers in particular classes, departments, schools or colleges. These courses concentrate on aspects of an educational culture problematic for non-native speakers. Variable format.