Beginning English skills. Language for daily life and participation in basic conversations. Listening, speaking, and reading skills development are emphasized. Simple writing is introduced.
High beginning English skills for school, work, and everyday needs. Development of listening, speaking, and reading skills. Production of sentences and brief paragraphs.
Low intermediate speaking and listening focus course. Comprehension of adapted and some authentic narrative and informational oral texts. Participation in discussions on career, social, and academic topics.
Basic pronunciation skills for beginning-level English language learners. Letter-sound correspondence, stress, intonation, and rhythm are introduced.
High intermediate speaking and listening focus course. Extended communication on a wide range of academic, social, and career-related topics. Comprehension of a wide variety of adapted and authentic literary and informational spoken texts.
Development and improvement upon the basic skills and common techniques used in the baking and pastry industry. Topics include meringues, petit fours and miniatures, mousses and creams, frozen desserts, chocolate and confections, fancy and display cakes, yeast-raised products using preferments, baker's math, ingredient functionality, troubleshooting.
Development of the skills necessary for an entry-level position in the baking and pastry industry. Topics include safety and sanitation, bakeshop terminology, proper use of equipment, weights and measures, ingredients and their functions, baker's math, baking methods and the development of basic baking skills. Students learn through a combination of lecture, demonstrations, and extensive hands-on practice.
High intermediate speaking and listening skills. Participation in discussions and extended conversations on a variety of current topics.
Low intermediate speaking and listening skills. Participation in conversations and discussions on familiar and some unfamiliar topics.
High beginning speaking and listening skills. Participation in simple conversations about common topics in routine social situations.