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Graduate Pathway Student Learning Outcomes
DAS 176: Reading Skills for Non-Native Speakers of English (3 credit hours)
A student who successfully completes this course will be able to:
- Comprehend authentic academic texts and answer various types of comprehension questions
- Identify main ideas, supporting details, and conclusions
- Make inferences
- Recognize target (i.e. intended) audience
- Recognize author’s purpose (to inform, instruct, persuade, or entertain)
- Recognize tone and bias
- Identify the author’s point of view
- Recognize documentation of sources
- Paraphrase and summarize
- Read and interpret graphic organizers, infographics, and charts
- Guess meanings of words in context
- Understand word forms
- Recognize connotations
DAS 177: Written Communication for Non-Native Speakers of English (3 credit hours)
A student who successfully completes this course will be able to:
- Use grammatical structures appropriate for advanced ESL writing
- Use advanced sentence structures (simple, compound, complex statements and questions) to add clarity to writing
- Use parallel structure
- Identify and edit structural common errors including comma splices, run-ons, and fragments
- Analyze, revise, and edit own writing
- Use appropriate citation format for academic writing
- Summarize and paraphrase authentic articles and sources
- Respond to readings in written form
- Write academic texts
DAS 178: Listening Skills (3 credit hours)
A student who successfully completes this course will be able to:
- Integrate new vocabulary to comprehend academic lectures and other presentations
- Use strategies to recognize context clues to understand unfamiliar vocabulary
- Listen for and recognize target vocabulary.
- Listen to oral discourse and respond appropriately
- Paraphrase, summarize, and respond to academic discourse effectively
- Identify topics, main ideas, and supporting details of unsimplified academic lectures
- Use notes from an unsimplified academic lecture to prepare for and answer test questions
- Integrate information based on notes from multiple sources to answer test questions