ESL First Year Seminar is a 3-credit, college-level course that will help you connect with faculty and staff, make friends, and learn what it takes to succeed in college.

ESL First Year Seminar is required for first-time-to-college ESL Level III students.

In ESL First Year Seminar, you will develop your reading, writing, speaking and note-taking skills through individual and collaborative work.

You will interview faculty and staff at the college and gain valuable information about campus resources and strategies for personal and academic success.

You will write articles about the college and about other topics of interest, and these articles will be designed and published as newsletters.

ESL First Year Seminar:

• Enables you to explore career choices and set goals
  
• Offers an active and supportive learning environment
  
• Develops your problem solving, critical thinking and communication skills
  
• Allows you to make links between what you are learning in the classroom and the local and global community
  
• Helps you make a successful transition to college and to academic English.

ESL First Year Seminar - 3 Credits
Learn how to develop your reading, writing, speaking and note-taking skills through different types of individual and collaborative work.

You will interview faculty and staff at the college and will gain valuable information about campus resources and strategies for personal and academic success. You will write articles about the college and about other topics of interest, and these articles will be designed and published as newsletters. You will explore career choices and set goals, problem solve, develop critical thinking skills and make connections with each other and with the college community.

Open to first-year ESL Level III students.

Michelle Schweitzer