HWRI-040: English Language - Emerging

This course is a workshop-style course founded on language acquisition across the four domains of language (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) and on the fundamentals of academic English to prepare English-emergent students for college-level writing courses at ArtCenter. English Language - Emerging (EL - Emerging) covers development of college vocabulary, reading comprehension, and grammar for academic writing-from the basics of parts of speech to fluency in the four types of sentences (simple to compound-complex). The course also includes instruction in oral communication (e.g., Visual Thinking Strategies [VTS]) in order to develop confidence in speaking, individuality in perception, and objectivity in discussion. The overall goal is to enable students to express complex ideas about art and design with clarity and precision utilizing all four language domains-listening, speaking, reading, and writing.