5 courses with the subject EAP-SHU, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
EAP-SHU 100English for Academic Purposes I4
The freshman English for Academic Purposes (EAP) course is designed to help you develop the high-level language, communication, and critical thinking skills you need to be successful in an English-speaking university. While the primary emphasis is on speaking and listening, you will also practice reading and writing. You will engage with content individually and in groups, complete a variety of communicative tasks, reflective writing assignments, and an experiential learning project outside the walls of the university. This course is designed to help you acquire skills that can be also be transferred to your future professional and personal lives, and to help you cultivate an interest in issues that cross disciplines, an important part of a well-rounded, liberal arts education. Prerequisite: None.
EAP-SHU 100YEnglish for Academic Purposes: Food for Thought: Eating Our Way to a Sustainable Future4
The freshman English for Academic Purposes (EAP) course is designed to help you develop the high-level language, communication, and critical thinking skills you need to be successful in an English-speaking university. While the primary emphasis is on speaking and listening, you will also practice reading and writing. You will engage with content individually and in groups, complete a variety of communicative tasks, reflective writing assignments, and an experiential learning project outside the walls of the university. This course is designed to help you acquire skills that can be also be transferred to your future professional and personal lives, and to help you cultivate an interest in issues that cross disciplines, an important part of a well-rounded, liberal arts education. Specifically, this course will investigate food; its production and consumption and the challenges of feeding a growing global population. The course will be divided into 5 modules addressing food security, sustainability and waste as well as the politics of food and what the future might hold in terms of diet. Students will also conduct research into the factors that influence both our current food choices and those of the future. Prerequisite: None.
This 101-level English for Academic Purposes (EAP) course is designed to help you continue to develop the high-level language, communication, and critical thinking skills you need to be successful in an English-speaking university. At the 101 level students are encouraged to gain control over facilitation of group discussions as well as the other academic communicative skills introduced at the 100-level. These academic skills can also be transferred to future professional and personal endeavors. As in the 100-level course, the thematic, content-based EAP seminar, aims to help you cultivate an interest in issues that cross disciplines, an important part of a well-rounded, liberal arts education. Prerequisite: None. Fulfillment: Core Language requirement.
EAP-SHU 201Hearts and Minds: Advanced Public Speaking4
This course is designed to take your public speaking skills to the next level. The course aims to deliver students a tool kit for engaging and effective presentations, design principles for visual aids, and space to critically assess and reflect on public speaking and other’s presentations. Close-readings of exemplar model talks and a peer-feedback workshop approach will help students develop top-notch public talks. The course will prepare students to give both common academic presentations, like case-studies and research-based presentations, as well as other speech types, like a pitch and a TED talk. Students will work on speaking events both long and short, and prepared and extemporaneous. The course will culminate with a public presentation of polished and revised talks from the course. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing (Chinese & international students) Fulfillment: General Elective
EAP-SHU 202Media Savvy: Navigating the Digital World with Information Literacy4
This is a comprehensive course designed to equip students with the skills and knowledge needed to effectively navigate the digital world and evaluate information with a critical eye. Through a combination of lectures, discussions, and hands-on activities, students will learn how to identify credible sources, recognize fake news, and effectively communicate information in the age of social media. By the end of the course, students will be well-versed in media information literacy and able to use these skills in their personal and professional lives. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing (Chinese & international students) Fulfillment: General elective
