EAP Part Time Courses

• Oral English for Academic Purposes
• Academic Writing

Oral English for Academic Purposes

Conversation & Discussion (ESLC 0260)
Purpose: In this course, students will practice speaking skills necessary for maintaining conversations and participating in discussions. Practice will include effective questioning and requesting, giving opinions, asking for clarification, and offering suggestions. Common Canadian idioms will also be studied. Schedule

Total Hours: 30 hours
Fee: $180

Academic Conversations (ESLC 0280)
Purpose: Students will continue practising speaking skills and participating in discussions. Skills practised include: opinions and persuasion; agreeing and disagreeing; facts versus opinions; summarizing; and reporting. Students will debate controversial topics and focus on critical thinking. Common idioms will also be studied. Schedule

Total Hours: 30 hours
Fee: $180

Seminars & Presentations (ESLC 0250)
Purpose: This course is designed to give students practice in speaking skills required for full participation in university seminars. Students will learn strategies that native speakers use in presenting information, expressing opinions and questioning others. They will practice these skills in discussions and short speeches. Videotapes will be used to provide speech models and to monitor student performance. Schedule

Total Hours: 30 hours
Fee: $195

Pronunciation (ESLC 0270)
Purpose: This course provides students with initial insight into their strengths and weaknesses in pronunciation and to assist students in improving their comprehensibility. Focused practice on specific problem areas will be provided in class. The instructor will also suggest techniques for continued polishing after the course. Schedule

Total Hours: 30 hours
Fee: $195
NOTE: This course is limited to ten (10) students per class.
Text Required: Martin Hewings and Sharon Goldstein (1998). Pronunciation Plus: Practice Through Interaction. Cambridge Press.

Academic Writing

Grammar Review (ESLC 0220)
Purpose: The focus in this course will be on increasing proficiency in grammatical conventions, practicing a variety of sentence structures, and developing paragraphs. Students will practice the functions of description, comparison, exemplification and argumentation in short pieces of writing. Editing skills will be a regular feature of the class. Individuals are encouraged to bring specific concerns to the instructor's attention. Schedule

Total Hours: 30 hours
Fee: $180

Essays (ESLC 0230)
Purpose: In this course, students will develop skills for writing summaries, reviews and essays that are well organized and coherently developed. Prewriting, writing, editing, paraphrasing and documenting will be practiced. Written work will be assessed regularly and attention will be given to individual needs. Schedule

Total Hours: 30 hours
Fee: $180
Text Required: Oshima, A. & Hogue, A. (2006). Writing Academic English, 4th. Houghton Mifflin.

Critical Reading & Summary Writing (ESLC 0240)

Purpose: Research shows that good reading skills can lead to well written assignments. In this course, students will learn reading strategies to understand and retain information, acquire new vocabulary, and learn to understand the organization of reading passages. Students will practice writing summaries and critiques, tasks that are essential in university courses. Assignments will relate to the specific academic tasks required of students. Schedule

Total Hours: 30 hours
Fee: $180

Writing University Research Papers (ESLC 0290)
Purpose: Students will focus on the research process for research papers. Students will learn how to choose and limit academic paper topics, locate and evaluate sources, document and reference information, paraphrase and quote, present different viewpoints, synthesize information, use APA, and edit. Individuals taking this course should have a strong command of complex sentence, paragraph, and essay development. Schedule

Total Hours: 30 hours
Fee: $180

Research Writing for Graduate Students (ESLC 0210)
Purpose: Students will practice writing rhetorical patterns common in scientific writing. Students will select articles from a journal common to their present area of research. They will then study the form of these articles in order to better appreciate the nature of research writing. Students will complete a variety of grammar exercises according to their individual needs and practice editing skills. Schedule

Total Hours: 30 hours
Fee: $195
Text Required: Swales, J.M. & Feak, C.B. (1994). Academic Writing for Graduate Students. University of Michigan Press.
NOTE: This course is limited to ten (10) students per class.