Courses

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  • EOP ME 033: Media News 3
    This course will focus on current events, such as politics, social issues, science, health and psychology, the environment, arts and entertainment, humor. Specific content will be determined by student interest and relevance during the semester. Media sources may include the Internet, newspapers, television, radio news and news magazine programs. Oral work may include group discussions and other speaking projects, such as news panels, debates, role-plays, presentations, and interviews. (12-Week Intensive, 12-Week Part- Time, 6-Week Intensive, English Plus Credit)
  • EOP ME 036: American Culture through Movies 3
    Using critically acclaimed American movies, you will examine American culture with a focus on contemporary American life, concerns, and values. You will develop critical thinking skills by comparing these values to those in your native culture. By watching and discussing the movies, you will improve your listening comprehension and speaking fluency, as well as your understanding of vocabulary, particularly idioms and colloquial expressions. (12-Week Intensive, 12-Week Part-Time, 6-Week Intensive, English Plus Credit)
  • EOP ME 043: Media News 4
    This course will focus on current events, such as politics, social issues, science, health and psychology, the environment, arts and entertainment, humor. Specific content will be determined by student interest and relevance during the semester. Media sources may include the Internet, newspapers, television, radio news and news magazine programs. Oral work may include group discussions and other speaking projects, such as news panels, debates, role-plays, presentations, and interviews. (12-Week Intensive, 12-Week Part- Time, 6-Week Intensive, English Plus Credit)
  • EOP ME 046: American Culture through Movies 4
    Using critically acclaimed American movies, you will examine American culture with a focus on contemporary American life, concerns, and values. You will develop critical thinking skills by comparing these values to those in your native culture. By watching and discussing the movies, you will improve your listening comprehension and speaking fluency, as well as your understanding of vocabulary, particularly idioms and colloquial expressions.
  • EOP OR 040: CELOP Online Pre-Course: The American Classroom
    For this online pre-course, Bridge to BU participants will be led through a series of modules that will orient them to the American classroom and academic culture. Language activities within the modules will assist the program administration and faculty to identify and assess what additional support may be necessary during the Fall semester. The modules will also familiarize participants with BU's expectations for academic integrity and what it means to join a learning community. The workload for this course is three hours per week of online content. Students are expected to do several hours of additional homework outside the online content. Students will be evaluated on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory scale.
  • EOP RV 020: Read Vocab 2
  • EOP RV 030: Read Vocab 3
  • EOP RV 040: Read Vocab 4
  • EOP RV 050: Read Vocab 5
  • EOP RV 060: Read Vocab 6
  • EOP RV 070: Read Vocab 7
  • EOP RV 080: Read Vocab 8
  • EOP RW 020: Reading and Writing 2
    Expectations for this course include: Students can analyze adapted texts on everyday topics and adapted biographies/graded readers of at least 200 words by identifying key information in the text and relating the reading to personal experience. Students can adequately complete structured exercises using structures listed on the Level 2 list that have been focused on in class. Students can write a passage (50-75 words) about their lives and the lives of others using the most basic structures taught in this level.
  • EOP RW 030: Reading and Writing 3
    Expectations for this course include: Students can analyze adapted articles on common events, everyday topics, and biographies/graded readers of at least 300 words by identifying key information in the text and relating the reading to personal experience. Students can adequately complete structured exercises using structures from the Level 3 list that have been focused on in class. Students can write narrative passages of about 70-100 words about a personal incident in their lives or a well-known historical person or event using structures covered in Level 2.
  • EOP RW 040: Reading and Writing 4
    Expectations for this course include: Students can analyze adapted articles on common events, everyday topics, and biographies/graded readers of at least 500 words by identifying key information in the text and relating the reading to personal experience. Students can complete structured exercises using structures from the Level 2 list that have been focused on in class. Students can write essays of at least one well-organized paragraph (approximately 100-150 words) describing the future and explaining how something is done using structures covered in levels 2 and 3.
  • EOP RW 050: Reading and Writing 5
    Expectations for this course include: Students can analyze adapted, academic texts and periodicals of at least 750 words on familiar topics by identifying key information in the text and relating the reading to personal experience. Students can use the grammar structures specified for practice in level 5 in structured exercises. Students can write an expository essay of 200-250 words discussing a well known person or current social issue using structures covered in levels 2-4.
  • EOP RW 060: Reading and Writing 6
    Expectations for this course include: Students can analyze authentic, unadapted, academic texts and periodicals of 2 pages (1000 words) on familiar topics by identifying key information in the text and relating the reading to personal experience. Students can write a 5-paragraph academic expository essay of 250 - -300 words using two different rhetorical patterns.
  • EOP RW 070: Reading and Writing 7
    Expectations for this course include: Students can analyze authentic, unadapted, academic texts and periodicals of at least 3 pages (1500 words) on contemporary topics by identifying key information in the text and synthesizing the reading with one other text. Students can write an essay of 500 words stating a position and supporting it using two different patterns of organization and appropriately incorporating information from one source using in-text acknowledgment.
  • EOP RW 080: Reading and Writing 8
    Expectations for this course include: Students can analyze authentic, unadapted academic texts and periodicals of at least 4 pages (2000 words) on unfamiliar topics by identifying key information in the text and synthesizing the reading with more than one other text. Students can write a persuasive argument making and defending a claim, utilizing a variety of rhetorical patterns for both academic and non-academic audiences, appropriately incorporating information from two sources.
  • EOP SL 020: Speaking and Listening 2
    Expectations for this course include: Students can use location and process organizational patterns to present on a familiar place as well as a simple activity/process in an intelligible way. Students can respond appropriately to spontaneous input from the teacher or other students in simple conversations on highly predictable topics. Students can extract key information from adapted audio texts 2 minutes in length on familiar, highly predictable topics and relate the listening to their personal lives. Students can follow and respond to a simple conversation. Students can do the above with written or visual supporting material, a modified speaker's pace, and a consistent need for pausing, repetition or clarification.

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