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Tags: academic credit, English, ESL, fall, graduate students, international students, Ithaca, language, lecture/discussion, professional development, summer, winter
Academic English for Cornell Graduate Students
January 23-May 5, 2012
Overview
Academic English for Cornell Graduate Students, offered by Cornell University's School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions in partnership with Tompkins Cortland Community College, is designed to help international graduate students succeed in their academic writing and speaking.
This program emphasizes improving the effectiveness and clarity of students' writing and speaking for specific academic and professional purposes. Faculty focus on teaching skills and vocabulary that are intended to be immediately helpful in graduate school and beyond. Wherever possible, homework is pulled from and reflects the student’s actual work in his or her discipline.
Students in this program can choose from three courses:
- an academic writing course,
- an academic speaking/listening/culture course, and
- an advanced academic writing course.
In order to review student work in detail, both academic writing classes include a required hourlong weekly small-group discussion section, to be scheduled with the instructor.
The speaking/listening/culture classes have an optional discussion section that meets once a week.
During all classes, instructors stress how to succeed in the uniquely challenging academic environment of the USA.
Class sizes are small, homework is limited, and instruction is tailored to the specific needs of students in the class. All three courses bear transcript credit and are graded S/U.
Who should attend
This program is designed for graduate-degree candidates whose first language is not English.