Includes index.

"University Success is a three-strand developmental course designed for English language learners transitioning to mainstream academic environments. A targeted approach focuses on the unique linguistic needs of students while preparing them to achieve academic autonomy. With authentic academic content woven through all three strands and rigorous academic preparation, University Success equips students with tools to become confident and successful in a university setting.

University Success Oral Communication builds essential skills that prepare students to understand and process lengthy academic lectures, defend their ideas, utilize the text to present concepts, speak thoughtfully in discussions, and contribute to group projects. Authentic lectures delivered by top professors from Stanford University provide students with real-life learning experiences.

FEATURES:

Flexible three-part developmental approach with authentic academic content woven through all three parts provides intensive oral communication and critical thinking skill development and expanded application. Parts 1 and 2 include short lectures and classroom discussions related to five academic disciplines: Sociology, Economics, Biology, Humanities, and Environmental Engineering. These lectures and discussions allow students to build their essential listening, speaking, and critical thinking skills. Part 3 features authentic 20-30 minute lectures built around the same five academic disciplines. These lectures enable students to apply and expand the skills acquired in Parts 1 and 2.

Integration of the Student Book and MyEnglishLab provides a blended approach for a flexible program that adjusts to the needs of students and teachers." (Book Cover)

CONTENTS

Welcome to University Success

Key Features of University Success

Scope and Sequence

Acknowledgements

PART 1: Fundamental Oral Communication Skills

SOCIOLOGY: Active Participation Fundamental Skills: Be an active participant
Supporting Skills: Make requests for elaboration - Use turn-taking to encourage participation
Integrated Skills: Take accurate, organized notes
Language Skills: Paraphrase key ideas
Apply Your Skills: Prepare and deliver an informational group presentation on origins, evolution, and achievements of a social change movement.

ECONOMICS: Idea Development
Fundamental Skills: Develop an idea
Supporting Skills: Consider what you know about a topic — Identify and present main ideas and supporting details
Integrated Skills: Compare textbooks to lectures
Language Skills: Clarify
Apply Your Skills: Prepare and deliver a persuasive group presentation on the business plan of an imaginary start-up company in an effort to gain start-up capital

BIOLOGY: Extended Discourse
Fundamental Skills: Participate in extended discourse
Supporting Skills: Discuss and respond to controversial topics — Recognize and utilize digressions
Integrated Skills: Lead discussions
Language Skills: Identify and use interrogatives and declaratives
Apply Your Skills: Prepare and have a class debate for and against vaccinating small children against known diseases

HUMANITIES: Speaking Styles
Fundamental Skills: Recognize speaking styles
Supporting Skills: Identify emphatic argumentation — Identify succinct argumentation
Integrated Skills: Identify and utilize markers for organizational structure
Language Skills: Create cohesion in presentations and discussions
Apply Your Skills: Prepare and have a panel discussion on modern educational trends and their similarity to or difference from ideals espoused by Socrates, Plato, Goethe and Nietzsche

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING: Visuals
Fundamental Skills: Use visuals
Supporting Skills: Connect visuals to a lecture — Read and interpret complex visuals

Integrated Skills: Synthesize text into a visual
Language Skills: Create and communicate visuals
Apply Your Skills: Prepare and deliver an informational individual presentation on a "green" building and the systems and features that make it a model for green construction

PART 2 Critical Thinking Skills

SOCIOLOGY: Facts and Opinions
Critical Thinking Skills: Distinguish facts from opinions
Supporting Skills: Identify facts through verbal and non-verbal signposts — Identify opinions through verbal and non-verbal signposts

Integrated Skills: Distinguish between facts and opinions in texts
Language Skills: Interpret and utilize hedging devices
Apply Your Skills: Prepare and deliver a persuasive group presentation for an important change that needs to be made to a school or community

ECONOMICS: Implications and Inferences
Critical Thinking Skills: Understand implications and inferences
Supporting Skills: Identify implied meaning — Determine a speaker's intent and degree of certainty
Integrated Skills: Synthesize information from multiple sources
Language Skills: Understand implied conditions
Apply Your Skills: Prepare and have a class debate in favor of supply side-economics and demand-side economics

BIOLOGY: Process
Critical Thinking Skills: Understand and present processes
Supporting Skills: Identify structure and purpose of a process presentation — Analyze flow of a process presentation
Integrated Skills: Explain a complex process
Language Skills: Use generalizations and specific information
Apply Your Skills: Prepare and deliver an informational individual presentation on the origins, symptoms, and treatment of an infectious disease.

HUMANITIES: Analogies
Critical Thinking Skills: Make analogies
Supporting Skills: Use metaphors and similes — Make assumptions
Integrated Skills: Assess the quality of a conclusion
Language Skills: Use colloquial language
Apply Your Skills: Prepare and deliver an informational group presentation on the continuing influence in society of a classic work of literature.

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING: Summarizing and Synthesizing
Critical Thinking Skills: Summarize and synthesize research
Supporting Skills: Select suitable research to support your ideas — Present well-integrated research
Integrated Skills: Understand and present a research report
Language Skills: Source academic references
Apply Your Skills: Prepare and deliver an informational group presentation on the role that government regulations have played in health problems.

PART 3: Extended Lectures

SOCIOLOGY:
Lecture: Five Revolutions
Research/Assignment: Research, prepare, and deliver an individual presentation on a grassroots social movement that has had an impact on society.

ECONOMICS:
Lecture: Supply and Demand Research/Assignment: Research, prepare, and deliver a group presentation on the history of a lifesaving drug or service, and how its price might influence consumer and seller behavior.

BIOLOGY:
Lecture: Are Viruses Alive?
Research/Assignment: Research, prepare, and have a panel discussion on the potential benefits and repercussions of requiring genetic testing for fatal diseases.

HUMANITIES:
Lecture: Love and Education
Research/Assignment: Research, prepare, and deliver an individual presentation on volunteer organizations and private foundations that promote a "love for the world."

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING:
Lecture: Air Filtration Systems for the Home
Research/Assignment: Research, prepare, and have a class debate for and against the necessity of further federal regulation to protect consumers from false claims about health products.

Credits

Index