단기여름6주과정: : Public Speaking for Nonnative Speakers, UCLA

Here at the UCLA Department of Communication Studies we are pleased to tell you about a new course that our department is offering.  We wanted to start a program that would allow students to learn English even faster.  Along with the very popular Communication Studies 1A, Public Speaking for Nonnative Speakers, we are offering a companion class, Communication Studies 1B, Learning American English and Culture from the Movies.  By completing these two classes students can improve their facility with the English language at a greatly accelerated pace.

Here is the description:

We are inaugurating a new course of studies, the UCLA Summer Institute in Communication Skills for International Students.  Offered through UCLA's Department of Communication Studies, the Institute is a six-week, intensive program of study, providing international students a holistic learning experience in American-style English.  Comprised of two courses, CS1A (Public Speaking for Nonnative Speakers) and CS1B (Learning American English and Culture from the Movies) the Institute is an immersion-style program, designed to enable nonnative speakers to communicate competently in both personal and professional situations.  In short, students will learn to interact effectively and easily with Americans----in America, in their home country, in the world.

Communication Studies 1A, Public Speaking for Nonnative Speakers, will be taught by Sylvia Merschel, who has been teaching this class for eighteen years.   Communication Studies 1B, Learning American English and Culture from the Movies, will be taught by Dr. Dee Bridgewater, who has developed many highly-acclaimed innovative classes in his thirty years of teaching at UCLA.

Students can take either course independently.  Student taking both courses will earn a certificate of completion from the UCLA Summer Institute in Communication Skills for International Students, indicating their successful participation in this innovative, comprehensive program.

Please see the Institute's Summer Session web site:

http://www.summer.ucla.edu/institutes/Communication/overview.htm

Contacts:

Sylvia Merschel

merschel@ucla.edu

Communication Studies 1A

Public Speaking for Nonnative Speakers

Dee Bridgewater, PhD

dbridge@ucla.edu

Communication Studies 1B

Learning American English and Culture from the Movies