ELL 86 - English for Women’s Health Level 6

Credits: 1-5
Provides high level ELL 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 50; and placement test; and instructor consent.

Course Fee: $10.00

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

Use level appropriate vocabulary to express concerns, describe symptoms, and share experiences related to women’s health.
Ask and answer questions to seek help about a broader range of women’s health issues.
Respond to written questions in a women’s health context with appropriate detail.
Use reading strategies to understand important information in a text.
Improve communication skills using more comprehensive vocabulary when interacting with health professionals and advocating for oneself.
Demons rate ability to navigate community resources regarding women’s health.
Practice level appropriate listening strategies while interacting with women’s health guest speakers.

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.