English Language Program A: Academic Reading and Writing

By providing practice in English reading, writing, and discussion, this course allows students to enhance their English proficiency and develop academic study skills and their critical thinking ability. The course extends over more than a single prerequisite to younger number.
 

English Language Program A: Communicative Strategies

Courses in listening, speaking and reading strategies designed to improve English communication skills. The course extends over more than a single prerequisite to younger number.
 

English Language Program A: Reading and Content Analysis

By providing an opportunity for students to read English texts critically and express ideas clearly in writing, this course allows students to enhance their English proficiency and develop academic study skills. The course extends over more than a single prerequisite to younger number.
 

English Language Program B: Academic Reading and Writing

By providing practice in English reading, writing, and discussion, this course allows students to enhance their English proficiency and develop academic study skills and their critical thinking ability. The course extends over more than a single prerequisite to younger number.
 

English Language Program B: Communicative Strategies

Courses in listening, speaking and reading strategies designed to improve English communication skills. The course extends over more than a single prerequisite to younger number.
 

English Language Program B: Reading and Content Analysis

By providing an opportunity for students to read English texts critically and express ideas clearly in writing, this course allows students to enhance their English proficiency and develop academic study skills. The course extends over more than a single prerequisite to younger number.
 

English Language Program C: Academic Reading and Writing

By providing practice in English reading, writing, and discussion, this course allows students to enhance their English proficiency and develop academic study skills and their critical thinking ability. The course extends over more than a single prerequisite to younger number.
 

English Language Program C: Reading and Content Analysis

By providing an opportunity for students to read English texts critically and express ideas clearly in writing, this course allows students to enhance their English proficiency and develop academic study skills. The course extends over more than a single prerequisite to younger number.
 

English Language Program: Sophomore English

A course designed to provide sophomore students with further knowledge of and experience in all four language skills (reading, writing, speaking and listening) in academic contexts.
 

English Language Program: Theme Writing

A course providing the fundamentals of writing a documented research paper.
 

Overseas Communicative Strategies

Intensive study in communicative strategies in ICU Study English Abroad Program affiliated universities.
 

Advanced English

April students who have completed or who have been excused from their freshman ELP requirements, and non-native English-speaking September students who wish to further develop their English language skills may take up to two elective units from among the following advanced English language courses.
 

College Composition for September Students

Writing is perhaps the most important academic skill required for success in university courses. College Composition is designed for students who were unable to participate in the ELP writing program. It introduces "writing-as-process" approach to help students learn how to efficiently produce text that is clear, concise, and logical. Topics to be covered include the writing process itself (planning, drafting, and revising), common methods of rhetorical development, argumentation, paragraphs as units of development, sentences as patterns of expression, diction, tone, and style. The final part of the course focuses on the research essay.