ESL/BU-095 ESL for Business Purposes I

GENERAL INFORMATION:

Course title: ESL/BU 095 English for Business Purposes I
Campus: Chuuk/CTEC/Yap	Initiator: Jean Ranahan	Date Initiated: May 08, 2021
Course description: This course is designed to build English skills necessary in a business workplace. Students practice reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills needed in an office setting.

COURSE HOURS/CREDITS:

	Hours per Week		No. of Weeks		Total Hours		Semester Credits
Lecture		x		x	4/16	=
Laboratory		x		x	/48	=
Lecture/Lab	4	x	16	x	64/16	=	4
Workshop		x		x	/48	=
			Total Semester Credits				4

PURPOSE OF COURSE:

[ ] Degree requirement

[ ] Degree elective

[X] Certificate

[ ] Other

PREREQUISITES: None

PSLOs OF OTHER PROGRAMS THIS COURSE MEETS:

PSLO#	Program
4. Communicate effectively in English for business purposes.	CA in Secretarial Science

1) INSTITUTIONAL STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES (Check all that apply)

[X]	1. Effective oral communication: capacity to deliver prepared, purposeful presentations designed to increase knowledge, to foster understanding, or to promote change in the listeners’ attitudes, values, beliefs, or behaviors.
[X]	2. Effective written communication: development and expression of ideas in writing through work in many genres and styles, utilizing different writing technologies, and mixing texts, data, and images through iterative experiences across the curriculum.
[ ]	3. Critical thinking: a habit of mind characterized by the comprehensive exploration of issues, ideas, artifacts, and events before accepting or formulating an opinion or conclusion.
[ ]	4. Problem solving: capacity to design, evaluate, and implement a strategy to answer an open-ended question or achieve a desired goal.
[ ]	5. Intercultural knowledge and competence: a set of cognitive, affective, and behavioral skills and characteristics that support effective and appropriate interaction in a variety of cultural contexts.
[ ]	6. Information literacy: the ability to know when there is a need for information, to be able to identify, locate, evaluate, and effectively and responsibly use and share that information for the problem at hand.
[ ]	7. Foundations and skills for life-long learning : purposeful learning activity, undertaken on an ongoing basis with the aim of improving knowledge, skills, and competence.
[ ]	8. Quantitative Reasoning: ability to reason and solve quantitative problems from a wide array of authentic contexts and everyday life situations; comprehends and can create sophisticated arguments supported by quantitative evidence and can clearly communicate those arguments in a variety of formats.

2) PROGRAM STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES (PSLOs): The student will be able to:

Demonstrate proper bookkeeping techniques for a small business.
Demonstrate general computer competence and information technology literacy.
Describe small business management techniques.
Communicate effectively in English for business purposes.
Perform business computations and apply logic as needed.
File documents properly and use common office machines

3) COURSE STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES (CSLOs) (General): The student will be able to:

Demonstrate knowledge of English grammar, mechanics, and word choice.
Find and correct grammatical errors in written and spoken English.

4. COURSE STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES (CSLOs) (Specific): The student will be able to:

CSLO (General) 1: Demonstrate knowledge of English grammar, mechanics, and word choice.
Student Learning Outcome (specific)	ISLO	PSLO	Assessment Strategies
1.1 Identify the parts of a sentence	2	4	Given sentences on tests and quizzes, the student will follow directions to underline, circle, or otherwise indicate various parts of speech and sentence structures.
1.2 Construct original sentences with correct grammar usage and punctuation.	2*	4	On tests and quizzes, the student will follow directions to write original error free sentences in various sentence patterns.
CSLO (General) 2: Find and correct grammatical errors in written and spoken English.
Student Learning Outcomes (specific)	ISLO	PSLO	Assessment Strategies
2.1 Distinguish sentences that are correctly written from sentences that contain errors.	2	4	Given a piece of writing, the student will find and correct errors in punctuation and usage.
2.2 Distinguish speech that is correctly stated from speech that contains errors.	1	4	The student will correctly ask and answer questions that are commonly used in a business situation.

5) COURSE CONTENT:

English grammar, mechanics, and word choice
Improving written and spoken English

6) METHOD(S) OF INSTRUCTION:

[X] Lecture [X] Cooperative learning groups

[X] Laboratory [X] In-class exercises

[X] Audio visual [X] Demonstrations

[ ]

7) REQUIRED TEXT(S) AND COURSE MATERIALS:

Geffner, Andrea B. Business English, A Complete Guide to Developing An Effective Business Writing Style, 5th edition. Hauppauge: Barron’s Educational Series, Inc., 2010. (Or most recent edition).

A dictionary of contemporary English.

8) REFERENCE MATERIALS:

None

9) INSTRUCTIONAL COSTS:

None.

10) EVALUATION:

This course is a prerequisite for ESL/BU 096. Students who wish to take ESL/BU 096 must pass ESL/BU 095 with a grade of C or better. A rubric and written test (examination) are used as summative assessment tool.

11) CREDIT BY EXAMINATION:

None.

ESL/BU 095 English for Business Purposes I	Recommended by CC: 05/04/21
	Approved by VPIA: 05/06/21

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