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ESL 501A:    Survival ESL I First Half

Advisory: ESL assessment recommendation
Transferable: No
This is the first half of a course in survival English for students with little or no oral or written English competency. It will give students basic vocabulary and familiarity in life skill areas such as the family, food, health, and occupations. The course integrates listening, speaking, reading, and writing. (ESL 501, 502, and 503 are sequential courses that may be taken in full form or in halves, preferably A before B.) This is a credit/no credit course.
Sect# Type Room Instructor Units Days Time Start-End Footnotes
6094 L/L HOL5 CISNEROS N 3.0 M WF 0615P - 0745P  
Above class meets at the Hollister Briggs site
6095 L/L HU101 CARRILLO L 3.0 M W 0615P - 0830P  

 


ESL 502A:    Survival ESL II First Half

Advisory: ESL 501 or ESL 501A and 501B or ESL assessment recommendation
Transferable: No
This is the first half of a second course in survival English for students with little oral or written English competency. It will give students expanded basic vocabulary and familiarity in life skill areas such as the weather, transportation, employment, and American holidays and customs. The course integrates listening, speaking, reading, and writing. (ESL 501, 502, and 503 are sequential courses that may be taken in full form or in halves, preferably A before B.) This is a credit/no credit course.
Sect# Type Room Instructor Units Days Time Start-End Footnotes
6096 L/L HU101 BAAMEUR K 3.0 TuTh 0615P - 0830P  
6097 L/L HOL5 CISNEROS N 3.0 M WF 0800P - 0925P  
Above class meets at the Hollister Briggs site

 


ESL 503A:    Survival ESL III First Half

Advisory: ESL 502 or ESL 502A and 502B or ESL assessment recommendation
Transferable: No
This is the first half of a third course in survival English for students with beginning oral or written English competency. It will reinforce basic skills learned and continue to develop vocabulary and ease of communication in life skill areas such as the family, the larger community, health, employment, and leisure activities. The course integrates listening, speaking, reading, and writing. (ESL 501, 502, and 503 are sequential courses that may be taken in full form or in halves, preferably A before B.) This is a credit/no credit course.
Sect# Type Room Instructor Units Days Time Start-End Footnotes
6098 L/L HOL4 DIEHL K 3.0 M WF 0615P - 0745P  
Above class meets at the Hollister Briggs site
6099 L/L HU104 SHELLEY A 3.0 M W 0615P - 0830P  

 


ESL 503B:    Survival ESL III Second Half

Advisory: ESL 502 or ESL 502A and 502B or ESL assessment recommendation
Transferable: No
This is the second half of a third course in survival English for students with beginning oral or written English competency. It will reinforce basic skills learned and continue to develop vocabulary and ease of communication in life skill areas such as the family, the larger community, health, employment, and leisure activities. The course integrates listening, speaking, reading, and writing. (ESL 501, 502, and 503 are sequential courses that may be taken in full form or in halves, preferably A before B.) This is a credit/no credit course.
Sect# Type Room Instructor Units Days Time Start-End Footnotes
6100 L/L HOL4 DIEHL K 3.0 M WF 0800P - 0925P  
Above class meets at the Hollister Briggs site

 


ESL 510A:    Basic ESL I

Advisory: Assessment Recommendation.
Transferable: No
This is an intensive, integrated-skill course for students with little English. Through listening, speaking, reading and writing activities, students learn to use the structures of English with increasing accuracy, while gaining basic life skills. This is a credit/no credit course.
Sect# Type Room Instructor Units Days Time Start-End Footnotes
4386 L/L OE002 MORA J 8.0 DAILY 0810A - 1000A  
4387 L/L OE001 CAMPBELL K 8.0 DAILY 0910A - 1100A  

 


ESL 510B:    Basic ESL II

Advisory: ESL 510A or ESL assessment recommendation.
Transferable: No
This course is a continuation of ESL 510A. This is an intensive, integrated-skill program for students who function in a limited way in English. Through listening, speaking, reading and writing activities, students continue learning to use the structures of English with increasing accuracy, while gaining further basic life skills. This is a credit/no credit course.
Sect# Type Room Instructor Units Days Time Start-End Footnotes
4388 L/L HU101 PORCELLA A 8.0 DAILY 1010A - 1200P  

 


ESL 521:    Beginning ESL Listening/Speaking

Advisory: ESL 510B or ESL Assessment Test Recommendation. Recommended concurrent enrollment in ESL 522 and 523.
Transferable: No
This course develops basic listening and speaking skills, moving from a functional survival context to academic readiness. Activities are directed at providing practice through listening exercises, role-play, pair work, small and large group discussion, interviews, and oral presentations.
Sect# Type Room Instructor Units Days Time Start-End Footnotes
4389 L/L HU101 SANIDAD M 4.0 DAILY 0910A - 1000A  

 


ESL 522:    Beginning ESL Reading/Vocabulary

Advisory: ESL 510B or 510C or Assessment recommendation. Recommended concurrent enrollment in ESL 521 and 523.
Transferable: No
This course begins the development of reading skills and vocabulary through the application of different reading strategies to a variety of selections on topics of interest to academically-bound students.
Sect# Type Room Instructor Units Days Time Start-End Footnotes
4390 L/L HU101 PORCELLA A 4.0 MWF&3 1210P - 0100P  

 


ESL 523:    Beginning ESL Grammar/Writing

Advisory: ESL 510B or ESL Assessment Test recommendation. Recommended concurrent enrollment in ESL 521 and ESL 522.
Transferable: No
This is a beginning grammar/writing course for students with very basic grammar. The focus is on basic grammatical structures, punctuation and sentence skills.
Sect# Type Room Instructor Units Days Time Start-End Footnotes
4391 L/L OE001 CAMPBELL K 4.0 DAILY 1110A - 1200P  

 


ESL 531:    Intermediate ESL Listening/Speaking I

Advisory: ESL 521 or ESL Assessment Test Recommendation. Recommended concurrent enrollment in ESL 532 and 533.
Transferable: No
In this course, listening and speaking skills are developed through extended listening exercises, open-ended dialogues, pair and group discussions, oral interviews, and oral reports. Units earned in this course do not count toward the associate degree and/or certain certificate requirements.
Sect# Type Room Instructor Units Days Time Start-End Footnotes
4392 L/L HU101 PORCELLA A 4.0 DAILY 0810A - 0900A  

 


ESL 532:    Intermediate ESL Reading/Vocabulary I

Advisory: ESL 522 or ESL Assessment Recommendation. Recommended concurrent enrollment in ESL 531 and 533.
Transferable: No
This course continues the development of reading skills and vocabulary through the application of different reading strategies to a variety of selections on topics of interest to academically-bound students.
Sect# Type Room Instructor Units Days Time Start-End Footnotes
4393 L/L LI100 LAWN B 4.0 TuTh 1110A - 1225P  

 


ESL 533:    Intermediate ESL Grammar/Writing I

Prerequisite: ESL 523 with a grade of C or better or ESL Assessment Test recommendation.
Transferable: No
This course involves the practice and refinement of sentence and paragraph skills, structure and punctuation. Students will learn basic use of the computer as a writing tool. Units earned in this course do not count toward the associate degree and/or certain certificate requirements.
Sect# Type Room Instructor Units Days Time Start-End Footnotes
4394 L/L LI100 LAWN B 4.0 DAILY 1010A - 1100A  

 


ESL 541:    Intermediate ESL Listening/Speaking II

Advisory: ESL 531 or ESL Assessment Recommendation. Recommended concurrent enrollment in ESL 542 and 543.
Transferable: No
This course expands listening and speaking skills through extended listening exercises, open-ended dialogues, pair and group discussions, oral interviews, and oral reports. Students broaden vocabulary while listening to and speaking in both formal and informal, conversational and academic situations.
Sect# Type Room Instructor Units Days Time Start-End Footnotes
4395 L/L HU104 SANIDAD M 4.0 DAILY 0810A - 0900A  

 


ESL 542:    Intermediate ESL Reading/Vocabulary II

Advisory: ESL 532 or ESL Assessment Recommendation. Recommended concurrent enrollment in ESL 541 and 543.
Transferable: No
This course begins the expansion of reading skills and vocabulary development through the application of different reading strategies to a variety of selections on topics of interest to academically-bound students including selections from literature.
Sect# Type Room Instructor Units Days Time Start-End Footnotes
4396 L/L LI100 LAWN B 4.0 MWF 1110A - 1200P  

 


ESL 543:    Intermediate ESL Grammar/Writing II

Prerequisite: ESL 533 with a grade of C or better or ESL assessment recommendation.
Transferable: No
This course is a continuation of ESL 533. Units earned in this course do not count toward the associate degree and/or certain certificate requirements.
Sect# Type Room Instructor Units Days Time Start-End Footnotes
4397 L/L LI100 LAWN B 4.0 DAILY 0910A - 1000A  

 


ESL 546:    Introduction to Computers for ESL Students

Advisory: CSIS 122. Eligible for Gavilan College ESL Program Intermediate.
Transferable: No
Introduction to basic computer hardware functions and terminology; overview of Windows operating environment and word processing for ESL students.
Sect# Type Room Instructor Units Days Time Start-End Footnotes
4398 L/L BU119 SANIDAD M 1.0 MW 1210P - 0100P  
Class meets 02/13/06 - 04/12/06

 


ESL 552:    Advanced ESL Reading/Vocabulary I

Advisory: ESL 542 or ESL Assessment Recommendation. Recommended concurrent enrollment in ESL 553 and/or ESL 555.
Transferable: No
This course focuses on academic and critical thinking skills needed to increase reading comprehension and efficiency. Emphasis is on analyzing, making inferences, taking notes, supporting opinions, summarizing and expanding vocabulary. Readings are from academic texts and literature.
Sect# Type Room Instructor Units Days Time Start-End Footnotes
4399 LEC OE002 WEXLER L 4.0 MTuWTh 1110A - 1200P  

 


ESL 553:    Advanced ESL Composition I

Prerequisite: ESL 543 with a grade of C or better or ESL Assessment Test recommendation.
Transferable: No
This course is a composition course for ESL students that develops college composition skills through a review of the parts and elements of the English paragraph and an introduction to the essay form. The course focuses on the development of a paragraph and expands to the writing of multiple paragraphs in an essay. Basic rhetorical patterns and methods of organization are covered using the multiple-draft approach to writing.
Sect# Type Room Instructor Units Days Time Start-End Footnotes
4400 L/L HU104 SANIDAD M 4.0 DAILY 1010A - 1100A  

 


ESL 555:    Advanced ESL Grammar

Prerequisite: ESL 543 with a grade of C or better or ESL Assessment Test Recommendation.
Advisory: Recommended concurrent enrollment in ESL 553 and ESL 552.
Transferable: No
This course is designed to help students improve their grammar usage so that they will be able to succeed in English composition courses. Students will enhance their writing skills by practicing with previously encountered basic structures as well as newly acquired more sophisticated ones.
Sect# Type Room Instructor Units Days Time Start-End Footnotes
4401 L/L OE001 CAMPBELL K 4.0 DAILY 0810A - 0900A  

 


ESL 561:    Advanced ESL Communication Skills

Advisory: ESL 552 and ESL 553 or ESL Assessment Test recommendation. Recommended concurrent enrollment in ESL 562 and 563.
Transferable: No
This course is designed to help non-native students mainstream into regular college courses. Its purpose is to prepare for full class participation with emphasis on exposure to and awareness of a variety of instructional formats, note-taking techniques, discussions, and oral presentations.
Sect# Type Room Instructor Units Days Time Start-End Footnotes
4402 LEC HU104 WEXLER L 3.0 MWTh 0910A - 1000A  

 


ESL 563:    Advanced ESL Composition II

Prerequisite: ESL 553 with a grade of "C" or better or ESL Assessment Test recommendation.
Advisory: Recommended concurrent enrollment in ESL 561.
Transferable: No
This course which is designed for ESL students, refines and further expands college composition skills through the writing of essays using the multiple-draft approach to writing. The course focuses on the structuring and development of an essay with the use of personal examples and/or outside sources. Students write in response to a variety of prompts and viewpoints on issues using different rhetorical patterns, and they are introduced to writing tasks used in academic disciplines other than English.
Sect# Type Room Instructor Units Days Time Start-End Footnotes
4404 L/L HU104 BAAMEUR K 4.0 DAILY 1110A - 1200P