WR 089 - Academic Writing for ELL Students -- This is a course for English Language Learners. Students will develop sentence, paragraph, and essay writing skills. They will also work on summary writing and personal reaction writing. Students will develop clearly focused essays with adequate support using sentences without major grammatical error (verb tense, subject-verb agreement, etc.) Prerequisite: Placement by reading/ writing test and instructor consent.

WR 093 - ESL: College Writing -- English language learners will develop more competence in writing. Students will learn skills in paragraph writing and essay writing with an emphasis on development, and organization, and editing techniques. Students will also learn advanced grammatical concepts. Prerequisite: Placement by reading/writing test and instructor consent.

Reading 089 -- Academic Reading for ELL Students -- This course is for English Language Learners. Students will learn active reading strategies such as finding the main idea and supporting details. Students will develop techniques for enlarging their vocabulary and creating study tools. Readings will include both advanced ESL texts as well as short authentic readings. Prerequisite: Placement by reading/writing test and instructor consent.

Reading 093 -- Students will learn reading strategies that will improve comprehension in reading such as reading for main idea, supporting detail, patterns of organization and inference. Students will learn how to draw thematic connections between a variety of readings. The course is designed to improve reading skills of English language learners. Prerequisite: Placement by reading/writing test and instructor consent.

EL 115E - Effective Learning: ESL -- This course is designed for English language learners who are reading at college level and who wish to strengthen their study skills and strategies. Students will learn how to take notes from lectures and textbooks, study for tests, improve memory, read and study from textbooks, manage time effectively, and use the library.

See the term schedule of classes for a list of available courses or the online catalog for full course descriptions.