Course Level: Undergraduate/Graduate

Selected Topics: Non-recurring (0)

Multiliteracies and Multimodal

This three-day intensive workshop covers theoretical aspects of multiliteracies, TESOL teaching methods that include multiliteracies and multimodal communication, and discusses the benefits and challenges of this approach in ESL/EFL instruction. Meets with TESL-560 N01.

Course Level: Undergraduate/Graduate

Selected Topics: Non-recurring (0)

The Culture of U.S. Graduate Higher Education

This course explores the cultural assumptions underlying academic practices, in particular at a graduate level, and personal interactions in U.S. university communities. It focuses on decisions graduate students make to define their relationships within the academic cultures in which they find themselves. Course topics include, but are not limited to: understanding the educational institutional context, including the role of academic integrity; examining student-faculty and graduate student-mentor interactions; U.S. academic scholarly writing; and successful cultural adaptation. Prerequisite: admission to the International Graduate Gateway Program and permission of program.

Course Level: Undergraduate/Graduate

Selected Topics: Non-recurring (0)

American Culture and Academic Writing

This course focuses on the development of academic writing skills of graduate international students in their chosen fields of study and assists in adapting to U.S. academic culture and expectations at American University. Students explore various forms of graduate academic writing and are guided through steps of development of research projects and papers.

Course Level: Undergraduate/Graduate

Selected Topics: Non-recurring (0)

The Culture of U.S. Graduate Higher Education

This course explores the cultural assumptions underlying academic practices, in particular at a graduate level, and personal interactions in U.S. university communities. It focuses on decisions graduate students make to define their relationships within the academic cultures in which they find themselves. Course topics include, but are not limited to: understanding the educational institutional context, including the role of academic integrity; examining student-faculty and graduate student-mentor interactions; U.S. academic scholarly writing; and successful cultural adaptation. Prerequisite: admission to the International Graduate Gateway Program and permission of program. Meets with TESL-560-001.