Development of listening, speaking, pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar skills in English as well as cultural awareness and preparation for the U.S. academic environment. For students at a high beginning 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): 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 an A1+ CEFR level.