ELS 112 - Masters Modules

3 to 4 credits
Ensures students can satisfy the requirements of a broad variety of everyday, school, and business situations. Completion will ensure that students can discuss personal special-interest fields with competence and ease, as well as supporting opinions and hypothesizing, tailoring their language to the audience, or discussing highly abstract and unfamiliar topics in depth. Students will be able to understand the main ideas and nuances of most speech in standard dialect and will be able to follow the essentials of extended discourse in academic and professional settings, lectures, meetings, speeches, and reports. Students will be able to comprehend texts containing hypotheses, argumentation, and opinions that include grammatical patterns and vocabulary ordinarily encountered in academic, professional, and recreational reading. Students will be able to write clearly on practical, social, and professional topics and will be capable of writing most types of informal and formal correspondence, such as memos, social and business letters, short research papers, and business reports in areas of special interest. Students will be able to effectively use a wide variety of rhetorical styles and analyze and synthesize information into a written academic format. All students who complete ELS 112 will have taken the Michigan ELI College English Test (MELI-CET) and the Michigan Listening Comprehension Test (LCT) and will have scored at a level equivalent to or better than iBT 68 TOEFL or CBT TOEFL 190. Prerequisite: Completion of ELS 111.