International Gateway Program Courses

International Gateway Program courses are considered college preparation courses. Students in these courses learn the English of specific disciplines and the academic and social communication skills they need to succeed in a university environment.

Student Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course, students will be able to:

Gateway Writing for Chemistry

• Answer comprehension questions by gleaning answers from the text.
• Identify word roots, prefixes, and suffixes in academic and scientific texts.
• Find and identify appropriate academic sources for chemistry research papers and short essays using the Internet and library databases.
• Identify the main ideas and details in a scientific reading.
• Summarize, paraphrase, and quote facts from a chemistry textbook and related sources.
• Synthesize own ideas with information from outside sources.
• Find appropriate academic sources using the Internet and library databases.
• Write a short research paper on a chemistry topic using appropriate sources.
• Cite sources in MLA format (in-text and end-text) in papers and multimedia presentations.
• Clearly and concisely explain chemistry topics in your own words.
• Give a formal presentation using chemistry to describe an everyday phenomenon.

Skills for College Success

• Identify appropriate and inappropriate participation strategies for American classroom environments.
• Actively participate in student-facilitated student debate and implement speaking strategies for holding the floor, agreeing, and disagreeing with classmates
• Write communicatively competent emails to professors.
• Utilize different note-taking strategies for academic readings and academic lectures
• Identify main ideas and details in scientific reading.
• Find and identify appropriate academic sources using the Internet and library databases for academic papers.
• Correctly format citations of sources using the Internet and library databases for academic papers.
• Recognize situations where cultural sensitivity is necessary and employ strategies to navigate common situations and interactions on college campuses.

PHIL 105 Support

• Identify field-specific vocabulary and define it from context.
• Use field-specific vocabulary to discuss philosophy topics.
• Incorporate field-specific vocabulary into formal and informal writing and speaking on philosophy topics.
• Summarize lectures from notes taken in class.
• Paraphrase key excerpts from PHIL 105 textbooks and readings.
• Respond to questions about course content in a paragraph with a topic sentence and supporting details.
• Explain philosophy concepts using appropriate examples from outside sources.
• Synthesize information from the lectures, course readings, and outside sources to apply theoretical philosophy concepts to explain real-life examples.
• Cite sources in-text and in a works cited list using MLA formatting.
• Write sentences of varying time and length with standard punctuation.
• Combine simple sentences into compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences.
• Identify and repair fragments, comma splices, run-ons, and tangles.

COM 111 Support

• Use communications vocabulary accurately in writing and speaking.
• Summarize lectures from notes taken in class.
• Paraphrase and summarize communications readings.
• Respond to questions about course content in clear paragraphs.
• Explain communications concepts using appropriate examples from outside sources.
• Synthesize information from lectures, course readings, and outside sources to apply theoretical communications concepts to explain real-life examples.
• Cite sources in-text and in a works cited list using MLA.
• Revise written work for clarity and coherence.
• Participate actively in a university classroom.
• Communicate appropriately with a professor in class and over email.

Advanced Presentations

• Utilize academic research engines to gather source material and provide proper citations.
• Deliver various presentations using appropriate body language, speech, and vocal qualities.
• Speak with clear enunciation, stress, phrasing, and pausing.
• Enhance a presentation with appropriate visuals.
• Analyze a topic by using critical thinking skills.
• Express a well-supported opinion.
• Utilize audience interaction skills.
• Participate as an active audience member.