Academic Skills Objectives

1 Academic Skills: Writing competence for entry into the college curriculum.

Ability to write examinations for courses.
Skill in writing course papers based upon research.
Ability to write fairly detailed essays on general academic subjects.

2 Academic Skills: Ability to read course texts with comprehension.

3 Academic Skills: Ability to comprehend lectures.

Skill in taking notes on lectures.
Ability to participate in class discussions.
Competence in research an assigned topic.

4 Spoken Language Skills: Articulation

Ability to accurately pronounce basic vowels and consonants both in isolation and in context.

5 American Culture: Improved understanding of American culture.

Knowledge of values and significance of traditions,
Knowledge of symbols of American society and culture.
Knowledge of artistic traditions, history, religion, foreign relations, literature, humor, philosophy, political behavior, urban processes, constitutional law, social changes, economic conditions, moral concepts, human values, etc. of American culture.

6 Adaptive Skills: Change

Ability to recognize change and adapt to change
Ability to describe change states.
Certainty: Ability to distinguish and express degrees of certainty,including probability, possibility, conjecture, negation, doubt, disbelief
Ability to infer analogies.

7 Affective Communication skills: Attitude

Ability to interpret and express the attitudinal dimension of a communication.
Assertion:
Ability to communicate a point of view in speech and in writing.

8 Affective Communication skills: Argumentation

Ability to expound an argument
Anticipatory skills
Ability to recognize and use indicators for anticipating an objection or contrary view Clarification strategies: Ability to recognize and use indicators for explanation or clarification of points already made.

9 Application Skills: Ability to analyze written material and apply to relevant situations

10 Analytical Skills: Ability to analyze facts.

Ability to infer cause and effect relationships.
Ability to separate subjects into component parts.
Classification: Skill in classification techniques.
Ability to separate information
Ability to classify according to attributes.

11 Career Skills:

Ability to determine career options which relate to the job environment in the
target country and internationally.
Ability to complete a job application.
Ability to write for business and professional work.