Undergraduate Course Descriptions
Academic Listening (ALS)
ALS 1001 Academic Listening, Speaking, and Notetaking 0 (2-3)
Placement based on TOEFL subscores and /
or placement tests.
The primary objectives of this course are to improve students’ speech
intelligibility, improve their academic listening skills and develop
their academic note-taking skills, in this way preparing them
for the more advanced classroom interactions. Most of the class
work is done in the audio, video, and multi media laboratories.
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ALS 1002 Academic Listening, Speaking,
and Notetaking 0 (2-3)
Placement based on TOEFL subscores and /
or placement tests.
The course is meant to polish the speech
skills of students, refine students’ academic
listening skills, have students take efficient
notes in an academic context, and build their
confidence in giving effective, oral, academic
presentations. The purpose of the course
is thus to prepare them well for future academic
settings where they would have to follow
the pace of a class delivered by fluent,
(near) native speaker teachers. Most of the
class work is done in the audio, video, and
multimedia laboratories.
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