ESL Information

CU BOULDER RESOURCES

CLASSES (credit):

Program for Writing and Rhetoric

ESL Section of WRTG 1150, Sections 800 and 801 - This is a first-year Writing and Rhetoric class. Credit hours may be applied towards the full-time enrollment requirement for international students.   In addition, the course fulfills A&S core requirement for lower-division written communication. For more information contact the Program for Writing and Rhetoric ( Environmental Design Building , Room 1B60, phone 303-492-8188).

ESL Section of WRTG 3020, 3030, 3040; Sections 800 and 801 - This is an upper division Writing and Rhetoric class. Credit hours may be applied towards the full-time enrollment requirement for international students. For more information contact the Program for Writing and Rhetoric ( Environmental Design Building , Room 1B60, phone 303-492-8188).

CLASSES (credit and non-credit):

The International English Center (IEC)

ESLG - Credit and non-credit English for Academic Purposes classes offered spring and fall semesters for CU Boulder students (graduate and undergraduate), and other interested people. Courses in Accent Reduction, Presentation Skills, and Writing are offered. A placement test is given at the beginning of the fall and spring semester. Credit earned from these ESL classes does not count toward graduation.

Intensive Program – A full-day, non-credit intensive multi-leveled eight-week program of English study focusing on university preparation and communicative competence

Evening Classes – Non intensive, non-credit six-week classes which integrate skills (speaking, pronunciation, grammar, listening, reading and writing) at three levels of proficiency

On-line Writing Modules – Four non-credit graduate-level writing modules focusing on a different writing skills or techniques

Global Business Communication Program – A sixteen-week, non-credit program which provides executives and managers from companies around the world with practical English language and cross cultural communication training for business purposes.

PRONUNCIATION AND WRITING ASSISTANCE:

The Speech, Language & Hearing Center offers speech intelligibility assessments and a class in improving pronunciation of American English. For more information, contact Anne Whitney at Anne.Whitney@colorado.edu, or Barbara Rende at Barbara.Rende@colorado.edu.

The Student Academic Services Center offers pronunciation and writing assistance to international students. For more information contact Dan West (Daniel.West@colorado.edu).

The Writing Center provides free 50-minute tutoring sessions. To make an appointment, email: wrtghelp@colorado.edu.

LANGUAGE/ESL LABS:

The Student Academic Services Center has an ESL lab and offers writing and pronunciation assistance to international students. For more information contact Dan West ( Daniel.West@colorado.edu ), or call 303-492-1416.

The ALTEC Lab has ESL tapes and English language movies available in Hellems, Room 152. For more information, call (303) 492-3779.

COMMUNITY PROGRAMS

Boulder Public Library has conversation classes, reading assistance, and book clubs. For more information, contact Ghada Elturk at 303-441-4941.

Front Range Community College has year-round ESL courses on their Boulder, Westminster, and Larimer campuses.

Doorways English School for International Women offers conversational English as well as grammar, and some social activities outside of class. Courses are located at 1820 15th Street at the First Presbyterian Church in Boulder and do not have a religious perspective. For more information, call Penny Toothman at 303-449-2855, or Elizabeth Boeve at 303-530-4389. You may also email: doorwaysschool@yahoo.com.

Your English School (YES) offers seven levels of English classes. Child care is available for a fee, and classes are held at 1128 Pine Street, at the First Congregational Church in Boulder. For more information; call Tommie Atanasoff at 303-499-2352, or email your.english.school@hotmail.com.

Intercambio offers low-cost/no-cost English classes, which are small and informal, to students at public facilities. For more information, contact Lesly at 303-996-0275, extension 3.