ELL 83 - English for Women’s Health Level 3

Credits: 1-5
Provides low-intermediate ELL students with opportunity to practice and improve speaking, listening, reading and writing skills in the context of women’s health. This is a pass/no credit course.

Enrollment Requirement: ELL 2 , 20 , 21 or 28 ; and placement test; and instructor consent.

Course Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

Express basic concerns with level appropriate vocabulary in a women’s health context.
Describe symptoms with level appropriate vocabulary that occur in a women’s health context.
Share experiences with appropriate vocabulary and relevant details that relate to a women’s health context.
Ask and answer basic questions to seek help about women’s health issues.
Respond to written questions in a women’s health context.
Use reading strategies to understand important information in a text.
Improve communication skills to speak with health professionals and advocate for oneself.
Learn how to navigate community resources regarding women’s health.

Program Outcomes

Cite evidence from the text to analyze and draw inferences
Summarize texts
Use context to determine meaning
Analyze how texts are organized
Determine points of view
Comprehend graphs, charts, diagrams, maps
Delineate and evaluate arguments
Compare and contrast texts
Identify affixes and roots
Use similes and metaphors
Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to the task and audience
Write to inform, explain, examine and convey ideas
Write arguments with reasons and evidence
Write narratives
Introduce and develop a topic
Create cohesion and clarify relationships between ideas
Revise, edit, rewrite
Complete short research project drawing on several cited sources
Actively participate in conversations
Analyze arguments
Build on the ideas of others
Express opinions clearly and persuasively
Work in groups to discuss, pose, and answer questions
Contribute relevant comments and observations
Evaluate soundness of speakers’ reasoning and sufficiency of evidence
Adapt speech to formal/informal circumstances
Give clear, effective presentations integrating multi-media
Demonstrate control over these parts of grammar: punctuation, present, past, future, continuous, present perfect, past perfect, modals, gerunds, infinitives, questions and negative statements, pronouns and prepositions, active and passive voice
Compound and complex sentences.

College-wide Outcomes

Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.