High-intermediate academic listening and speaking skills and strategies with an emphasis on accent reduction by improving overall clarity, voice quality, and physical presentation. Oral communication activities, oral presentations, and listening competency with vocabulary and grammatical structures appropriate to the high-intermediate level.
Systematic practice in American English sounds and speech for improved pronunciation, speaking, and listening through the application of intermediate academic listening and speaking skills.
Development of advanced ESL communication skills with focus on rhetorical theory, research, development, delivery, and analysis of speeches in academic contexts. Emphasis on pronunciation, fluency, vocabulary development, and advanced listening and speaking skills.
Internship in sustainability-related settings (such as environmental education, alternative energy systems, sustainable water systems, green building, habitat restoration, urban agriculture) under the supervision of a qualified professional. The student will need to arrange the internship and then contact the instructor to enroll in this class. Suggestions and strategies are available on course website. One unit of credit is earned for 54 hours of unpaid or paid work.
Internship in sustainability-related settings (such as environmental education, alternative energy systems, sustainable water systems, green building, habitat restoration, urban agriculture) under the supervision of a qualified professional. The student will need to arrange the internship and then contact the instructor to enroll in this class. Suggestions and strategies are available on course website. One unit of credit is earned for 54 hours of unpaid or paid work.
Internship in sustainability-related settings (such as environmental education, alternative energy systems, sustainable water systems, green building, habitat restoration, urban agriculture) under the supervision of a qualified professional. The student will need to arrange the internship and then contact the instructor to enroll in this class. Suggestions and strategies are available on course website. One unit of credit is earned for 54 hours of unpaid or paid work.
Study the foundational concepts for understanding social entrepreneurship, combining the passion of a social mission with business-like discipline, innovation, and determination to address pressing social problems. This course offers a basic framework for social entrepreneurs to develop new business models and ventures that support inclusivity, accessibility, and sustainability.
A project-oriented, hands-on course to introduce students to the practices and methodologies used in Engineering and Technology. Areas of focus are electronics, mechanical construction/fabrication and technical mathematics.
Introduction to team-oriented engineering design, problem solving processes, and the use of computers in the solution of engineering problems, including commercial spreadsheet applications and analysis/graphics applications. Emphasis on technical communication, teamwork, engineering design and problem solving methodologies. Multiple hands-on design projects.
A survey of literature written in English by women over the last four hundred years, emphasizing nineteenth and early twentieth century novels, poetry, and drama by major as well as rediscovered authors prior to 1970.