Course Descriptions
ESLR 0305 ESL Reading Intermediate
Focuses on teaching students with intermediate level speaking and listening skills
to identify topics, main ideas, and supporting details in simplified academic and
literary texts. Lab required. Prerequisite: ESL New Student Assessment for ESLR
0305. Corequisite: ESLW 0305. 3 credit hours. (D)
Note: ESLR 0305, ESLR 0310, ESLR 0325, and ESLX 0310 may be taken for a combined total of no more than 9 credit hours.
ESLR 0310 ESL Reading Advanced
Focuses on teaching vocabulary from the Academic Word List, word families, context
clues, topics, main ideas, supporting details, transitions, and organizational patterns
for improving comprehension of abridged and unabridged academic and literary texts.
Lab required. Prerequisite: ESL New Student Assessment for ESLR 0310; or successful
completion of ESLR 0305 and ESLW 0305. Corequisite: ESLW 0310. 3 credit hours. (D)
Note: ESLR 0305, ESLR 0310, ESLR 0325, and ESLX 0310 may be taken for a combined total of no more than 9 credit hours.
ESLR 0325 ESL Reading Transitioning
Focuses on teaching non-native speakers of English with high intermediate reading
skills to comprehend cultural allusions, connotation of vocabulary, implied main ideas,
facts and opinions, inferences and conclusions, author’s purpose, tone, point of view,
and graphic aids in unabridged academic texts, accelerating reading rates and comprehension
to transition to academic coursework. Lab required. Prerequisite: ESL New Student
Assessment for ESLR 0325; or successful completion of ESLR 0310 and ESLW 0310. Corequisite:
ESLW 0325. 3 credit hours. (D)
Note: ESLR 0305, ESLR 0310, ESLR 0325, and ESLX 0310 may be taken for a combined total of no more than 9 credit hours.