| ESL10 | Access Orientation | No Description Set |
| ESL13 | Listening & Speaking Basic | Students at this level are feeling out the unfamiliar rhythm and blends of English native speakers. They are learning to distinguish content words from function words to get the gist, and to pick out specific details. Conversely, they may be focusi... |
| ESL14 | Reading & Writing Basic | ESL 14 Reading and Writing Level 1 is a course designed for elementary-level students of English as a Second Language. It aims to introduce them to basic resources and strategies for improving reading comprehension in English and will guide students... |
| ESL15 | Active Grammar and Culture | No Description Set |
| ESL16 | Western Communication Orientation | Students will write logical outlines, organized essays, and accurate reference pages. They will cite academic sources correctly in multiple essays. Students will demonstrate the ability to analyze, interpret, and extrapolate on academic materials thr... |
| ESL20 | International Scholar Research | In this course, international scholars will observe the pedagogical methods of American teachers at Ashland University. Under the guidance of an ACCESS instructor, these scholars will create data collection instruments and then utilize these instrume... |
| ESL23 | Listening & Speaking Intermediate | This course is designed for high beginning to low intermediate-level learners of English. It makes use of functional activities and practical language to improve the students' listening and speaking skills. The emphasis is on acquainting students w... |
| ESL24 | Reading & Writing Intermediate | ESL 24 Reading and Writing Level 2 is intended for students who have already studied English at an elementary level. It aims to improve the students' reading comprehension skills and coach them to become active and reflective readers. It also prese... |
| ESL33 | Listening & Speaking Advanced | At this level, students focus on developing problem solving and argumentation skills. Simple debates, activities that involve ranking, expressing and defending opinions on an issue, etc. are appropriate activities. Involving students in projects in... |
| ESL34 | Reading & Writing Advanced | ESL-34 Reading and Writing Level 3 is a lower intermediate reading and writing course. It is intended for students who have already studied English at an elementary level. It aims to improve the students' reading comprehension skills and coach them... |
| ESL35 | Nursing Track English | No Description Set |
| ESL43 | Direct Admit Listening & Speaking | This course will coach direct-admit international students in academic listening and speaking. It is specifically designed to help students increase their listening comprehension of English academic materials and to teach them how to prepare academic... |
| ESL44 | Reading & Writing IV | ESL-44 Reading and Writing Level 4 is an upper intermediate level reading course. It seeks to develop students' reading and vocabulary skills and help them continue to hone various reading strategies, such as inference-making, comprehending context... |
| ESL53 | Listening & Speaking V | Students have reached the academic level. Listening activities should be challenging. Students should be able to determine meaning from context even for unfamiliar words. Speaking should be fluent and confident. Students should be prepared to dis... |
| ESL54 | Reading & Writing V | Students at this level are advanced readers. They should have little trouble reading a current news article and cogently discussing it in depth, including understanding personal and socio-political ramifications. ESL texts at the very advanced leve... |
| ESL63 | Listening & Speaking VI | Students need to demonstrate by the end of this course that they are fully prepared to engage in an AU class. They have the skills to understand academic content and participate effectively in group work and class discussion, as well as negotiate le... |
| ESL64 | Reading & Writing VI | ESL-64 Reading and Writing Level 6. At this level students are negotiating full academic texts. They should already have skills to infer and deduce unknown information from context. They should be prepared to analyze content and draw upon backgrou... |
| ESL74 | Direct Admit Reading | No Description Set |
| ESL100 | Esl Orientation | This course is an orientation for ACCESS students. |
| ESL101 | Basic Listening | Students in this course will listen to comprehend basic stories and narratives; learn to identify main ideas and details, predict speaker attitude, identify tone and make inferences; identify cause & effect, reasons & explanations, and facts & opinio... |
| ESL102 | Basic Speaking | Students will develop Basic Interpersonal Communicative Competencies (BICS) in English. By engaging in language situations both inside and outside of the classroom, students will work to improve their ability to communicate effectively in English.... |
| ESL103 | Basic Reading | Students will identify main ideas and supporting details, learn skimming and scanning techniques, learn to grasp simple and complex sequences, learn to distinguish facts from inferences, and to comprehend cause & effect relationships. Students wil... |
| ESL104 | Basic Writing | Students will learn to employ basic sentence structures in building basic paragraphs, demonstrate control of the mechanics of punctuation and capitalization, do simple summaries and paraphrases, write unified, consecutive paragraphs on a topic or the... |
| ESL105 | Basic Grammar | Students will be able to recognize the form, meaning, and function of basic grammatical points such as primary tenses and structures related to parts of speech. Students will demonstrate both declarative and procedural knowledge of how the forms exp... |
| ESL106 | Basic Vocabulary | Students will build their basic vocabulary (BICS) from the General Service List in order to function in everyday American life. Students will work with synonyms, antonyms, roots, and affixes in order to promote more rapid expansion of vocabulary, as... |
| ESL110 | American Cultural Exploration | Students will explore themes and elements of American Culture through the analysis of various media (situational comedies, NPR programming, TV commercials, internet resources) that explore social themes, by interaction with native speakers in differe... |
| ESL120 | American Cultural Exploration II | Students will explore themes and elements of American Culture through the analysis of various media (situational comedies, NPR programming, TV commercials, internet resources) that explore social themes, by interaction with native speakers in differe... |
| ESL201 | Intermediate Listening | Students in this course will listen to comprehend intermediate level semi-authentic academic lectures; identify main ideas, details, predict attitudes, tone, and inferences; identify cause & effect, advantages & disadvantages, risk & desired outcome,... |
| ESL202 | Intermediate Speaking | Students will transition from general-to-academic language skills as they develop the skills needed to engage in an academic classroom, including: gauge relevance of information to utilize in a discussion, differentiate between opinion and fact, succ... |
| ESL203 | Intermediate Reading | Students will learn to comprehend semi-authentic academic texts, infer meaning from context, decide on criteria for ranking, analyze and evaluate problems and solutions, infer author opinion, and analyze text for purpose and function. Students will... |
| ESL204 | Intermediate Writing | Students will learn to produce longer and more sophisticated academic paragraphs, write persuasive and informative paragraphs with tables and charts, and employ mechanics of punctuation, spelling, and capitalization with increasing accuracy. They wi... |
| ESL205 | Intermediate Grammar | Students will explore how the form, meaning, and function of complex grammatical structures determine appropriate usage in context with some emphasis placed on how grammar forms help with the expression of complex ideas within a sentence. Students w... |
| ESL206 | Intermediate Vocabulary | Students will continue to build their basic vocabulary (BICS) from the General Service List in order to function in everyday American life, as well as beginning work with academic vocabulary (CALPS) from the Academic Word List in preparation for hand... |
| ESL301 | Advanced Listening | Students will listen to comprehend authentic academic lectures, including: inferences, supporting examples & explanations, facts and figures, attitudes, causes & effects, and organizational cues. Students will demonstrate note-taking proficiency uti... |
| ESL302 | Advanced Speaking | Students will engage in high-level discussions and debates on academic and real-world topics, engage in a team academic project of 8-10 minutes with discussion, present a sophisticated research-based presentation of 10-15 minutes, learn to respond an... |
| ESL303 | Advanced Reading | Students will evaluate supporting arguments, distinguish fact from speculation, evaluate sources, analyze and evaluate evidence, analyze a writer's argument, infer writer's tone and purpose, synthesize information from multiple sources, justify opini... |
| ESL304 | Advanced Writing | Students will incorporate article content into essays, write formal essays through process of draft, revision, and final submission, write cause & effect, persuasive, evaluative, summary, comparative, analytical, expository, and/or argumentative essa... |
| ESL305 | Advanced Grammar | Students will be able to distinguish the form, meaning, and function of sophisticated grammatical structures with particular emphasis on the ways in which grammar is used for idea development and organization at the discourse level. Students will de... |
| ESL306 | Advanced Vocabulary | Students will continue to build their academic vocabulary from the Academic Word List in preparation for handling college level course material. Students will continue to work with synonyms, antonyms, roots, and affixes in order to promote more rapi... |
| ESL310 | Western Communication Seminar | Students will write logical outlines, organized essays, and accurate reference pages. They will cite academic sources correctly in multiple essays and in a three-page research paper. Students will demonstrate the ability to analyze, interpret, and ex... |
| PTH101 | Pathways I: Listening & Speaking | The course is tailored to develop spoken and aural skills of high-intermediate to low-advanced non-native English speakers. Students are required to give small-group and individual presentations with graphical information and to listen to extended di... |
| PTH102 | Pathways I: Reading & Writing | This course is an upper-intermediate to low-advanced level reading and writing course. It seeks to develop students' reading and vocabulary skills and help them continue to hone various reading strategies, such as inference-making, comprehending cont... |
| PTH201 | Pathways II: Listening & Speaking | This is a low-advanced to high-advanced listening and speaking class in which students need to demonstrate that they are fully prepared to engage in Ashland University classes. At this level, they should have the skills to understand authentic academ... |
| PTH202 | Pathways II: Reading & Writing | In this low-advanced to high-advanced course, students have little trouble reading a current news article and cogently discussing it in depth, including understanding personal and social ramifications. They should also be able to negotiate full acade... |