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UPP COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
UPP COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
Basic Level
Listening Comprehension
This course provides opportunities for listening to native speakers, especially with North American accents, speaking at different speeds and with different levels of difficulty. Multimedia sources, both in and outside class, will equip students with the skills and strategies required for effective listening in their university studies and their successful integration into the English speaking community.
Grammar
This course focuses on grammar issues that are problematic for Francophone students and those most likely to cause breakdowns in communication. Grammar points will be considered in context using communicative activities. High frequency formal and grammatical aspects of English appropriate for high beginner learners—such as parts of speech, word classes, number, sentence types and their syntaxes, verbs and tenses, nouns, rules of spelling and pronunciation of word endings, modifiers, modals and their related expressions, comparatives and superlatives—are covered. Competitive classroom games and online activities complement more traditional grammar exercises.
Academic Writing
This course covers basics of academic writing, starting with one-paragraph compositions and progressing to three or more paragraphs. Students complete a variety of writing activities to develop both fluency and accuracy. Organization, sentence structure, use of logical connectors, prewriting strategies and the writing process are stressed. Through portfolios and timed writing results, students will see tangible results of their progress.
Oral Communication
The course equips students with basic oral presentation skills appropriate for high beginner learners. They will practice speaking accurately and fluently through planned speeches, impromptu speeches, class discussions, speaking games, and debates in order to prepare for both classroom and testing. Pronunciation problems and common grammar errors will be addressed as they arise.
Reading for Academic Purposes
This course focuses on academic reading skills that high beginner students will need both in university courses and on standardized tests. Skills such as skimming, scanning, inferring meaning from context, and predicting are stressed.
Integrated Academic Skills
This course integrates different academic English skills: reading, speaking, listening, writing, vocabulary building, and basic note-taking skills. Guest speaker lectures, videos, small group discussions, and class discussions are related to actual university topics geared to the high beginner level.
Extensive Reading
This course features short stories, fables, and articles appropriate for high beginners. Instruction focuses on developing both reading and critical thinking skills to help students become more effective readers, increase their vocabulary, and develop an appreciation for reading. Classroom activities focus on helping students develop skills such as summarizing, identifying main ideas, describing characters and themes, relating ideas to students’ own lives.
Intermediate Level
Listening Comprehension
This course provides opportunities for listening to native speakers, especially with North American accents, speaking at different speeds and with different levels of difficulty. The Introductory Course to the IBTTOEFL TEST module, blended with other multimedia sources both in and outside class, will equip students with the skills and strategies required for effective listening, not only in their university studies, but also for their successful integration into the English speaking community at large.
Grammar
This course emphasizes grammar issues that are problematic for Francophone students and those most likely to cause breakdowns in communication. Grammar points will be considered in context using communicative activities. High frequency formal and grammatical aspects of English appropriate for low intermediate learners—such as tense and time relationships; verbs, phrasal verbs, nouns and noun phrases, modals and related expressions; comparatives and superlatives; passive sentences; defining and non-defining relative clauses; quoted, direct and indirect speech.—are covered. Competitive classroom games and online activities complement more traditional grammar exercises.
Academic Writing
This course covers basics of academic writing, starting with one to two paragraph compositions and progressing to four to five paragraphs. Students complete a variety of writing activities to develop both fluency and accuracy. Organization, sentence structure, prewriting strategies and the writing process are stressed. Practicing paraphrasing and
simple citation methods prepare students to write from source material. Through portfolios and timed writing results, students will see tangible results of their progress.
Oral Communication
This course equips students with basic oral presentation skills appropriate for low intermediate learners. They will practice speaking accurately and fluently through planned speeches, impromptu speeches, class discussions, speaking games, and debates in order to prepare for both classroom and testing situations. Pronunciation problems and common grammar errors will be addressed as they arise.
Reading for Academic Purposes
This course focuses on academic reading skills that low intermediate students will need both in university courses and on standardized tests. Skills such as skimming, scanning, inferring meaning from context, and predicting are stressed.
Integrated Academic Skills
This course integrates different academic English skills: reading, speaking, listening, writing, notetaking skills, and vocabulary building. Guest speaker lectures, videos, small group discussions, and class discussions are related to actual university topics geared to the low intermediate level.
Extensive Reading
This course features short stories, articles, and short novels appropriate for low intermediate learners. Instruction focuses on developing both reading and critical thinking skills to help students become more effective readers, increase their vocabulary, and develop an appreciation for reading. Classroom activities focus on helping students develop skills such as summarizing, identifying main ideas, describing characters and themes, relating ideas to students’ own lives.
Advanced Level
Education for Success
This course orients students to the American higher education system, including practical information such as choosing a major and courses, different types of diplomas, GPAs, reading syllabi, and understanding prerequisites. The course also covers general academic skills such as note-taking, understanding and avoiding plagiarism, using the library and research databases; as well as life skills such as time management, health maintenance and stress management. Teamwork and project planning and management are taught through the implementation of a community service project. Each unit will feature a language-learning component.
Academic Writing
This course emphasizes development of paragraphs, structure, unit, and coherence and cohesion in a paragraph, and essay organization; as well as giving students practice in various rhetorical modes. Students progress from writing three-paragraph compositions to writing five or more paragraphs. Academic writing, simple business correspondence, and writing answers to academic test questions are practiced. Sentence structure, coherence, cohesion, and grammar are stressed. Students gain experience writing from source material, citing sources, and paraphrasing. Through portfolios and timed writing results, students will see tangible results of their progress.
Oral Communication
This course equips students with basic oral presentation skills appropriate for high intermediate learners. Students practice speaking accurately and fluently through planned speeches, impromptu speeches, class discussions, speaking games, and debates in order to prepare for both classroom and testing. Pronunciation problems and common grammar errors will be addressed as they arise.
Reading for Academic Purposes
This course develops high intermediate learners’ reading skills to succeed in course work and on tests. In addition, students develop awareness of their reading progress, build their vocabulary, learn to recognize main ideas and supporting details from written texts, and improve test-taking strategies.
Integrated Academic Skills
This course integrates different academic English skills: reading, speaking, listening, writing, and vocabulary building. Guest speaker lectures, videos, small group discussions, and class discussions are related to actual university topics geared to the high intermediate level.
Extensive Reading
This course features short stories, articles, and novels appropriate for high intermediate learners. Instruction focuses on developing both reading and critical thinking skills to help students become more effective readers, increase their vocabulary, and develop an appreciation for reading. Classroom activities focus on helping students develop skills such as summarizing, identifying main ideas, inferring meaning from context, describing characters and themes, relating ideas to students’ own lives.
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