Development of reading, writing, vocabulary, and grammar skills in English and cultural awareness and prepare for the U.S. academic environment. For students at a mid- intermediate language proficiency level. Course Information: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory grading only. Taught in English. Open only to non-native speakers of English. No graduation credit given. Prerequisite(s): ELSI 012; or approval of the department or appropriate score on the department placement test. Recommended Background: Students in this course are expected to have the syntactic, phonological, semantic, and rhetorical English language skills needed to function at a B1-CEFR level.