Student Learning Outcomes

Meets MN Transfer Curriculum Goal Area 1 - Oral Communication. English Language Learners in this course will develop verbal and auditory English communication skills appropriate for academic settings. Students will learn to take notes from lectures, to give academic presentations, and to accurately understand and produce North American English speech patterns and pronunciation. Students will expand cultural knowledge related to Minnesota and the United States to communicate verbally in US academic settings. This three-credit course is intended for students who score 86 and above on the ESL Reading Accuplacer and is not intended to replace CMST 1320, 2300, 2301, 2310, or 2315. To fulfill the Goal Area One requirement of the Minnesota Transfer Curriculum or the Associate of Arts Degree, students who take this course must also complete another Oral Communication Goal Area 1 course. To maximize student learning, this course has been developed to be taken with ESOL 1310 and ESOL 1320. This course provides an equitable opportunity for English Language Learners to improve in high-level academic skills in their non-native language.

Student Learning Outcomes:
  • Recognize organizational patterns, themes, and topics in academic and professional lectures from a variety of disciplines.
  • Analyze topic, main idea, and details in a variety of academic and professional lectures and discussions
  • Produce pronunciation, intonation, rhythm, and stress in speaking appropriate for academic and professional discourse.
  • Distinguish academic language used in various college disciplines.
  • Apply notetaking methods based on college lectures and other academic discourse.
  • Select appropriate vocabulary and language for academic communication.
  • Utilize cultural context clues needed to comprehend academic lectures.
  • Analyze college-level lectures and discussions.
  • Present academic speeches on a variety of topics.
  • Discuss ideas with groups through use of listening skills, critical thinking, and appropriate and respectful responses.

Prerequisites

Please see eServices for section availability and current pre-req/test score requirements for this course.