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Course Syllabus

ESL 0251 Level 1 Composition

  • Division: Humanities
  • Department: Languages & Linguistics
  • Credit/Time Requirement: Credit: 1.5; Lecture: 3; Lab: 0
  • Prerequisites: Placement in ESL 0251 through the department
  • Semesters Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
  • Semester Approved: Fall 2025
  • Five-Year Review Semester: Summer 2030
  • End Semester: Summer 2031
  • Optimum Class Size: 10
  • Maximum Class Size: 15

Course Description

This course develops English language learners’ accuracy in written English at the sentence level. Writing tasks emphasize everyday communication and self-expression through contextualized activities. Students will develop vocabulary knowledge in CEFR A1 and A2 levels. This course is cross-listed with CED 0251 (Level 1 Composition – Continuing Education).

Justification

The ESL Department at Snow College provides a four-level writing sequence designed to prepare non-native speakers of English for academic coursework. ESL 0251 serves as the foundation course in this sequence. It offers essential instruction in English sentence structure, punctuation, and grammar, providing students with the skills necessary to progress to paragraph-level writing in Level 2.

Student Learning Outcomes

  1. Upon successful completion of ESL 0251, students will be able to use basic grammatical structures accurately in simple, compound, and limited complex sentences.
  2. Students will be able to apply correct capitalization, punctuation, and spelling in contextually appropriate writing.
  3. Students will be able to write clear and relevant sentences with CEFR A1-A2 vocabulary that describe, explain, and summarize familiar topics in response to visual or written prompts.

Course Content

This course focuses on constructing clear and grammatically correct sentences. Through communicative and contextualized writing activities, students practice capitalization, punctuation, subject-verb agreement, connectors, and sentence variety. Assessment may include writing from pictures and prompts, as well as describing familiar people and places.