HWRI-050: English Language - Developing

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 language to prepare students who are continuing their development of English for college-level writing courses at ArtCenter. English Language - Developing (EL -Developing) follows the English Language - Emerging (EL - Emerging) course in sequence. This course continues to address the development of college vocabulary, reading comprehension, and grammar for academic writing building from fluency in the four types of sentences (simple to compound-complex) and extending to an understanding of the writing process to construct paragraphs and short, academic papers. 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. However, more emphasis is given to speaking (oral presentations) and writing (academic papers) in this course.