ESL 15 is a first-year academic writing class that you can take to fulfill your required first-year writing credits. The focus is on practicing academic writing through drafting, revising, researching, and discussion. Active participation is required and daily attendance is expected. Students will prepare five major writing assignments and several smaller assignments.  They will also engage in library research, give oral presentations about their work, and read and discuss relevant essays, articles, and sample texts. Instructors focus on organization, logic, argumentation, and audience; this is not a grammar-focused class.

CAS 100A explores how people use techniques of oral communication to address practical, professional and civic problems. It is designed to introduce students to principles of effective public speaking, implemented through the design and presentation of individual speeches. Drawing upon concepts from the study of both rhetoric and communication science, the course aims to foster habits of ethical self-reflection alongside practical speaking skills. 

This pride is reserved for students for whom English is a second language, either because they are international students or because they speak another language besides English at home and did not complete high school at an English-medium institution.