ESL 15ESL Composition for American Academic Communication II

3 credits · English as a Second Language · Penn State

ESL 15 ESL/Composition for American Academic Communication II (3) This course is for undergraduate students who are intermediate-advanced level non-native speakers of English. Students will become familiar with the various stages in the process of writing and develop strategies for reading and writing various models of American academic discourse. Students will be able to use what they have learned in this course to participate successfully in academic reading and writing tasks throughout their university experiences in the United States. Students will participate in a variety of reading and writing tasks that will enable them to: (a) define the subject, purpose, audience, and appropriate organizational structure for written compositions; (b) revise and reshape their writing to improve ideas, organization, language use, vocabulary and mechanics; (c) identify and correct structural and grammatical errors within their written texts; (d) select sources, take notes, and acknowledge sources to support ideas, using the library to conduct library research; and, (e) become better writers in preparation for their college careers. Credit toward degree requirements is limited to one course from: ENGL 15 , ENGL 15A , ENGL 15E , ENGL 15S , ENGL 30H , ENGL 30T , ESL 15 , ENGL 137H , CAS 137H , or LA 101

Before you enroll

Prerequisites

None listed in the catalog.

Counts toward

General education

Writing & Speaking (GWS)

Where it fits

Where it sits in degree plans

Suggested plans most often put it in Year 1 · Fall (156 programs).

One of the options in (14)

Actuarial Science, B.S.
Business Analytics and Information Systems, B.S.
Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship, B.S.
Energy Business and Finance, B.S.
Energy Engineering, B.S.
Environmental Systems Engineering, B.S.
Finance, B.S. (Business)
Human Capital Management, B.S.
Information Systems, B.S.
Management, B.S. (Business)
Management, B.S. (Capital)
Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, B.S.
and 2 more

What it opens up

Courses that list ESL 15 as a prerequisite (108)

AFAM 463 African American Autobiography
AFAM 466 African American Novel I
AFAM 467 African American Novel II
AFAM 468 African American Poetry
AFAM 469 Slavery and the Literary Imagination
AMST 470 The American Renaissance
AMST 472 Topics in American Literature
AMST 475 Black American Writers
AMST 476 American Women Writers
ASTRO 237W Astronomy Communications
ENGL 183 Adventure Literature
ENGL 202A Effective Writing: Writing in the Social Sciences
ENGL 202B Effective Writing: Writing in the Humanities
ENGL 202C Effective Writing: Technical Writing
ENGL 202D Effective Writing: Business Writing
ENGL 202H Effective Writing: Honors
ENGL 250 Peer Tutoring in Writing
ENGL 312 Globality and Literature
ENGL 400 Authors, Texts, Contexts
ENGL 401 Studies in Genre
ENGL 401W Creative Writing Theory
ENGL 402 Literature and Society
ENGL 403 Literature and Culture
ENGL 404 Mapping Identity, Difference, and Place
ENGL 405 Taking Shakespeare From Page to Stage
ENGL 406M Honors Course in English: General Topic in Recent Literature
ENGL 407 History of the English Language
ENGL 408M Honors Seminar in English: General Topic in Post-1800 Literature
ENGL 411M Honors Seminar in English: Creative Writing
ENGL 412 Advanced Fiction Writing
ENGL 413 Advanced Poetry Writing
ENGL 414 Biographical Writing
ENGL 415 Advanced Nonfiction Writing
ENGL 416 Science Writing
ENGL 417 The Editorial Process
ENGL 418 Advanced Technical Writing and Editing
ENGL 419 Advanced Business Writing
ENGL 420 Writing for the Web
ENGL 421 Advanced Expository Writing
ENGL 426 Chicana and Chicano Cultural Production: Literature, Film, Music
ENGL 427 Topics in Jewish American Literature
ENGL 430 The American Renaissance
ENGL 431 Black American Writers
ENGL 432 The American Novel to 1900
ENGL 433 The American Novel: 1900-1945
ENGL 434 Topics in American Literature
ENGL 435 The American Short Story
ENGL 436 American Fiction Since 1945
ENGL 437 The Poet in America
ENGL 439 American Nonfiction Prose
ENGL 440 Studies in Shakespeare
ENGL 441 Chaucer
ENGL 442 Medieval English Literature
ENGL 443 The English Renaissance
ENGL 444 Shakespeare
ENGL 445 Shakespeare's Contemporaries
ENGL 446 Milton
ENGL 447 The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century
ENGL 448 The English Novel to Jane Austen
ENGL 449M Honors Seminar in English: Pre-1800s literature
ENGL 450 The Romantics
ENGL 451 Literary Modernism in English
ENGL 452 The Victorians
ENGL 453 Victorian Novel
ENGL 454 Modern British and Irish Drama
ENGL 455 Topics in British Literature
ENGL 456 British Fiction, 1900-1945
ENGL 457 British Fiction Since 1945
ENGL 458 Twentieth-Century Poetry
ENGL 459 Writing Palestine-Israel
ENGL 460 Business and Literature
ENGL 462 Reading Black, Reading Feminist
ENGL 463 African American Autobiography
ENGL 464M Honors Seminar in English: Multicultural
ENGL 465 Humanity in Computerized Society
ENGL 466 African American Novel I
ENGL 467 African American Novel II
ENGL 468 African American Poetry
ENGL 469 Slavery and the Literary Imagination
ENGL 470 Rhetorical Theory and Practice
ENGL 471 Rhetorical Traditions
ENGL 472 Current Theories of Writing and Reading
ENGL 473 Rhetorical Approaches to Discourse
ENGL 474 Issues in Rhetoric and Composition
ENGL 475 Comics Studies
ENGL 476 Arab American Literature
ENGL 478 Grant Writing
ENGL 480 Communication Design for Writers
ENGL 481 Literary Theory: Historical Perspectives
ENGL 482 Contemporary Literary Theory and Practice
ENGL 482W Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory
ENGL 483 Problems in Critical Theory and Practice
ENGL 486 The World Novel in English
ENGL 487W Senior Seminar
ENGL 489 British Women Writers
ENGL 490 Women Writers and Their Worlds
ENGL 491 The Capstone Course in Professional Writing
ENGL 492 American Women Writers
FIN 301 Corporation Finance
FIN 301H Corporation Finance (Honors)
JST 427 Topics in Jewish American Literature
JST 459 Writing Palestine-Israel
LTNST 426 Chicana and Chicano Cultural Production: Literature, Film, Music
SC 451 Science Outreach and Communication
WMNST 462 Reading Black, Reading Feminist
WMNST 489 British Women Writers
WMNST 490 Women Writers and Their Worlds
WMNST 491 American Women Writers