OPIE D980 - Academic Core Skills 3

This course is a bridge level support course in English as a Second Language for students who are also permitted to take two academic courses. Eight hours of classroom instruction (two hours a day, four days a week) are designed to provide students with high-level language skills development, with a specific focus on academic reading and writing skills, as well as academic performance and study skills.

Requisites: Course is developmental PERMISSION REQUIRED Paper TOEFL: 525 minimum IBT: 71 minimum Composition Exam: 51 minimum
Credit Hours: 8
Repeat/Retake Information: May be repeated for a maximum of 48.0 hours.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 8.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: F,CR,NC,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:

Student comprehends and relates main ideas of authentic reading passage up to 20 pages in length and reads authentic university-level textbook selections at a minimum rate of 140 wpm with at least 75% comprehension.
Student demonstrates ability to revise essays to improve focus, unity, organization, and language use and to edit his own writing for most common grammatical errors.
Student demonstrates ability to write a short paper (4-5 pages) for an academic audience. Student is able to reason, develop, and communicate an argument in supporting sections of an essay.
Student is able to identify, compare, and analyze information from multiple textual sources and is able to synthesize information from various sources to solve problems and perform writing tasks.
Student: recognizes text-based paraphrase and understands its purpose, recognizes references, acknowledgements, and bibliographic citations, and is able to identify, compare, and analyze information from multiple textual sources.
Student: uses textual evidence to verify comprehension and support his/her position and demonstrates ability to infer meaning within a text, to distinguish fact from opinion, and to detect author’s point-of-view.

Ohio University

Ohio University

OPIE D980 - Academic Core Skills 3