ELL Course Descriptions
The Academic ELL program has 3 levels:
Not sure which level you should be in? Take the Guided Self Placement Survey to find out.
These courses develop integrated critical reading, writing, listening and speaking skills in English through immersion in a selected theme, challenging academic content and campus- and/or community-based learning. Students participate in group work and connect the content to their own lives, using language in multiple ways.
- Students successfully completing Level 1 will produce, revise and edit written and oral assignments that demonstrate readiness for Level 2 as determined by departmental assessment processes. Students will demonstrate emerging skill with incorporating sources to develop ideas with purpose, focus and clarity of language.
- Students successfully completing Level 2 will produce, revise and edit written and oral assignments that demonstrate readiness for Level 3 (or approaching readiness for College English) as determined by departmental assessment processes. Students will demonstrate increasing skill with incorporating sources to develop ideas with purpose, focus and clarity of language.
- Students successfully completing Level 3 will produce, revise and edit written and oral assignments that demonstrate readiness for College English as determined by departmental assessment processes. Students will demonstrate proficiency with incorporating sources to develop ideas with purpose, focus and clarity of language.
Students can take some additional college courses at all levels of ELL. At Level 3, students can take ELL Learning Community Discipline clusters which are co-taught by ELL and Discipline faculty.
- ELL English Composition Learning Community
- ELL Business Learning Community
- Computer Learning Community
- ELL Psychology Learning Community
- ELL Sociology Learning Community
- ELL Visual Media Arts Learning Community