English for Academic Purposes
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Academic Research Skills

This course is designed to improve the student’s ability to formulate a suitable topic for inquiry, identify different steps of doing research, evaluate sources, navigate the Rutgers library system, organize research data, and properly cite sources according to MLA style guidelines.

 

Public Speaking Skills

This course is designed to improve the student’s ability to speak in front of a group in a structured manner; to inform, persuade, or motivate; exploit visual aids; to conduct a thought-provoking discussion; and to handle questions with poise.

 

Academic Reading Skills

This course is designed to improve the student’s ability to skim, scan, review, infer, and interpret; as well as to read effectively with speed and comprehension in various genres.

 

Academic Vocabulary Skills

This course is designed to improve the student’s ability to expand the vocabulary through various study methods, inference from contextual use, knowledge of derivations, identification of collocations, and effective dictionary use.

Academic Writing Skills

This course is designed to improve the student’s ability to write in different genres: narrative, expository, comparative and contrast, cause and effect, and argumentative; and to employ various writing strategies: paraphrase, unity, coherence, summary, documentation, mechanics, and grammar.

 

Academic Listening Skills

This course is designed to improve the student’s ability to listen to live presentations and comprehend authentic academic lectures, focusing on generalizations, cause and effect, comparison and contrasts, definitions, citations, and non-verbal signals; and to take effective notes, using symbols, lists, abbreviations, short forms, graphs, charts, texts, and citations.

 

All instruction is reinforced with practice in the PALS English Language Immersion Lab.

Class Schedule: Each course meets two days each week for one and a half hours.

Class Hours: Courses are scheduled from 8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

 

Session V: June 1–July 16, 2009

Session I: September 2–October 21, 2009

Session II: October 29–December 21, 2009

Session III: January 19–March 8, 2010

Session IV: March 22–May 6, 2010

Session V: June 1–July 19, 2010

COSTS

Application Fee: $100

Computer Fee (each 7-week session): $46.50*

Tuition (each 7-week session):

Full-time

(18 hours/week): $1200

Part-time
(15 hours/week): $1110

(12 hours/week): $1030

(9 hours/week): $950

(6 hours/week): $875

(3 hours/week): $800

* Price subject to change