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The goal of the Academic ESL Certificate Program is to provide students, prospective employers, and others with documented evidence of persistent continuance and academic accomplishments in ESL courses.

The objectives of the Pre-intermediate Academic ESL Certificate Program include:

  1. Demonstrate ability to evaluate, comprehend and produce written and spoken English in a variety of contexts approaching ESL college-level communication.

  2. Compose well-developed and organized pre-college level compositions.

  3. Produce spoken English with increasing accuracy and fluency using a wide range of academic vocabulary, language functions, and sentence structures. 

Certificate Types

  • The minimum time for completion of all certificates is 1 semester. Completion time will vary based on student preparation and number of classes completed per semester.

Academic ESL Pre-Intermediate Noncredit Certificate of Competency

Dept. Name/# Name Hours Proposed Sequence
ESLNC 862 Oral Communication 1 90 Yr 1, Fall
ESLNC 855 ESL Reading, Writing and Grammar 1 108 Yr 1, Fall
Total   198  

 

Academic ESL Low-Intermediate Noncredit Certificate of Competency

Dept. Name/# Name Hours Proposed Sequence
ESLNC 862 Oral Communication 1 90 Yr 1, Fall
ESLNC 865 ESL Reading, Writing and Grammar 2 108 Yr 1, Fall
Total   198  

 

Academic ESL High-Intermediate Noncredit Certificate of Competency

Dept. Name/# Name Hours Proposed Sequence
ESLNC 884 Oral Communication 2 90 Yr 1, Fall
ESLNC 875 ESL Reading, Writing and Grammar 3 108 Yr 1, Fall
Total   198  

 

Academic ESL Low-Advance Noncredit Certificate of Competency

Dept. Name/# Name Hours Proposed Sequence
ESLNC 884 Oral Communication 2 90 Yr 1, Fall
ESLNC 885 ESL Reading, Writing and Grammar 4 108 Yr 1, Fall
Total   198  
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