English as a Second Language
Level 1
ENSL 312 - Beginning English: Speaking and Listening (4 units)
Pass/No Pass (P/NP) Only • Total hours: 68 hours lecture
This course is for the student who has very little English. It is an integrated skills course emphasizing listening, speaking, and pronunciation. Portions of instruction may be offered online; may also be offered fully online.
Advisory: ENSL Guided Self-Placement Tool
Catalog Program Pages Referencing ENSL 312
ENSL 412 - Beginning English: Speaking and Listening (0 units)
Non Credit • Total hours: 68 hours lecture
This course is for the student who has very little English. It is an integrated skills course emphasizing listening, speaking, and pronunciation. Portions of instruction may be offered online; may also be offered fully online.
Advisory: ENSL Guided Self-Placement Tool
Repeatable: Noncredit
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ENSL 313 - Beginning English: Writing, Reading, and Vocabulary (5 units)
Pass/No Pass (P/NP) Only • Total hours: 85 hours lecture
This course is for the student who has very little or no English. It is an integrated skills course emphasizing grammar, writing, and reading. Portions of instruction may be offered online; may also be offered fully online.
Advisory: ENSL Guided Self-Placement Tool
Catalog Program Pages Referencing ENSL 313
ENSL 413 - Beginning English: Writing, Reading, and Vocabulary (0 units)
Non Credit • Total hours: 85 hours lecture
This course is for the student who has very little or no English. It is an integrated skills course emphasizing grammar, writing, and reading. Portions of instruction may be offered online; may also be offered fully online.
Advisory: ENSL Guided Self-Placement Tool
Repeatable: Noncredit
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Level 2
ENSL 321 - High-Beginning Reading and Writing (5 units)
Pass/No Pass (P/NP) Only • Total hours: 85 hours lecture
This is a high-beginning writing course for the non-native speaker emphasizing grammar, reading, vocabulary, and writing sentences. Portions of instruction may be offered online; may also be offered fully online.
Catalog Program Pages Referencing ENSL 321
ENSL 421 - High-Beginning Reading and Writing (0 units)
Pass/No Pass (P/NP) Only • Total hours: 85 hours lecture
This is a high-beginning reading and writing course for the non-native speaker emphasizing grammar, reading, vocabulary, and writing sentences. Portions of instruction may be offered online; may also be offered fully online.
Repeatable: Noncredit
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ENSL 323 - High-Beginning Speaking and Listening (4 units)
Pass/No Pass (P/NP) Only • Total hours: 68 hours lecture
This course, at the high-beginning level for non-native speakers, emphasizes listening, vocabulary, and conversation in situational contexts. Portions of instruction may be offered online; may also be offered fully online.
Catalog Program Pages Referencing ENSL 323
ENSL 423 - High-Beginning Speaking and Listening (0 units)
Non Credit • Total hours: 68 hours lecture
This course, at the high-beginning level for non-native speakers, emphasizes listening, vocabulary, and conversation in situational contexts. Portions of instruction may be offered online; may also be offered fully online.
Repeatable: Noncredit
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Level 3
ENSL 331 - Low-Intermediate Reading and Writing (5 units)
Pass/No Pass (P/NP) Only • Total hours: 85 hours lecture
This is a low-intermediate course for the non-native speaker emphasizing reading, vocabulary, grammar and writing development Portions of instruction may be offered online; may also be offered fully online.
Catalog Program Pages Referencing ENSL 331
ENSL 431 - Low-Intermediate Reading and Writing (0 units)
Non Credit • Total hours: 85 hours lecture
This is a low-intermediate course for the non-native speaker emphasizing reading, vocabulary, grammar and writing development Portions of instruction may be offered online; may also be offered fully online.
Repeatable: Noncredit
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ENSL 334 - Low-Intermediate Speaking and Listening (4 units)
Pass/No Pass (P/NP) Only • Total hours: 68 hours lecture
This course, at the low-intermediate level for non-native speakers, emphasizes listening, vocabulary, and conversation in situational contexts. Portions of instruction may be offered online; may also be offered fully online.
Catalog Program Pages Referencing ENSL 334
ENSL 434 - Low-Intermediate Speaking and Listening (0 units)
Non Credit • Total hours: 68 hours lecture
This course, at the low-intermediate level for non-native speakers, emphasizes listening, vocabulary, and conversation in situational contexts. Portions of instruction may be offered online; may also be offered fully online.
Repeatable: Noncredit
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Level 4
ENSL 342 - Intermediate Reading and Writing (5 units)
Pass/No Pass (P/NP) Only • Total hours: 85 hours lecture
This is an intermediate course for the non-native speaker emphasizing the organization and development of academic reading and writing. Students focus on reading texts and writing short essays, while utilizing advanced grammar and core vocabulary. Portions of instruction may be offered online; may also be offered fully online.
Catalog Program Pages Referencing ENSL 342
ENSL 442 - Intermediate Reading and Writing (0 units)
Non Credit • Total hours: 85 hours lecture
This is an intermediate course for the non-native speaker emphasizing the organization and development of ideas of academic reading and writing. Students focus on reading texts and writing short essays, while utilizing advanced grammar and core vocabulary. Portions of instruction may be offered online; may also be offered fully online.
Repeatable: Noncredit
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ENSL 345 - Intermediate Speaking and Listening (4 units)
Pass/No Pass (P/NP) Only • Total hours: 68 hours lecture
This is an intermediate course for the non-native speaker emphasizing pronunciation, vocabulary development, communication/presentation, and listening skills. Portions of instruction may be offered online; may also be offered fully online.
Catalog Program Pages Referencing ENSL 345
ENSL 445 - Intermediate Speaking and Listening (0 units)
Non Credit • Total hours: 68 hours lecture
This is an intermediate course for the non-native speaker emphasizing pronunciation, vocabulary development, communication/presentation, and listening skills. Portions of instruction may be offered online; may also be offered fully online.
Repeatable: Noncredit
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Level 5
ENSL 346 - High-Intermediate Reading and Writing: American Culture (5 units)
Pass/No Pass (P/NP) Only • Total hours: 85 hours lecture
This is a high-intermediate course for the non-native speaker designed to increase reading and writing skills and cultural literacy. Students read and analyze literary and academic texts and build their academic vocabulary. Portions of instruction may be offered online; may also be offered fully online.
Catalog Program Pages Referencing ENSL 346
ENSL 446 - High-Intermediate Reading and Writing: American Culture (0 units)
Non Credit • Total hours: 85 hours lecture
This is a high-intermediate course for the non-native speaker designed to increase reading and writing skills and cultural literacy. Students read and analyze literary and academic texts and build their academic vocabulary. Portions of instruction may be offered online; may also be offered fully online.
Repeatable: Noncredit
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ENSL 348 - High-Intermediate Speaking and Listening (4 units)
Pass/No Pass (P/NP) Only • Total hours: 68 hours lecture
This is a high-intermediate speaking and listening course for the non-native speaker. Students give speeches and participate in classroom discussions to further develop cross-cultural communication skills. Portions of instruction may be offered online; may also be offered fully online.
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ENSL 448 - High-Intermediate Speaking and Listening (0 units)
Non Credit • Total hours: 68 hours lecture
This is a high-intermediate speaking and listening course for the non-native speaker. Students give speeches and participate in classroom discussions to further develop cross-cultural communication skills. Portions of instruction may be offered online; may also be offered fully online.
Repeatable: Noncredit
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Level 6
ENSL 11 - Advanced Reading and Writing (5 units)
Letter Grade (LG) or Pass/No Pass (P/NP) • Total hours: 85 hours lecture
This reading and writing course prepares non-native speakers of English for ENGL 1A, developing students' critical reading, writing, and thinking skills. The course emphasizes reading strategies for improved comprehension and analysis. It also focuses on writing strategies for improved academic writing, including effectively and correctly integrating outside sources. Students read texts of varying length that stimulate analytical thinking and writing. Students write several essays of varying length (500-1200 words), learning to integrate their reading and writing skills. WRITING REQUIREMENT: A minimum of 4,000 words. Portions of instruction may be offered online; may also be offered fully online.
Credit transferable: Transfers to CSU & UC
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- English as a Second Language
- English as a Second Language Advanced Level, Noncredit Certificate of Completion
- English as a Second Language High-Beginning Level, Noncredit Certificate of Completion
- English as a Second Language Intermediate Level, Noncredit Certificate of Completion
- Medical Insurance and Coding Specialist, Associate in Science
- Medical Insurance and Coding Specialist, Certificate of Achievement
- Medical Office Administration, Certificate of Achievement
Supplemental Courses
ENSL 300 - Supervised Tutoring: ESL (0.5-3 units)
Letter Grade (LG) or Pass/No Pass (P/NP) • Total hours: 25.5-153 hours lab
This course is designed to provide supervised tutoring for non-native English speaking students concurrently enrolled in a basic skills course or any course that requires basic ESL skills to complete the course work. Portions of instruction may be offered online; may also be offered fully online.
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ENSL 400 - Supervised Tutoring: ESL (0 units)
Non Credit • Total hours: 25.5-153 hours lab
This course is designed to provide supervised tutoring for non-native English speaking students concurrently enrolled in a basic skills ESL course or any course that requires basic ESL skills to complete the course work. Portions of instruction may be offered online; may also be offered fully online.
Repeatable: Noncredit
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ENSL 326 - English Skills for Success I (0.5-4 units)
Pass/No Pass (P/NP) Only • Total hours: 8.5-68 hours lecture
This is a course at the high-beginning or low-intermediate level for the non-native speaker, emphasizing listening and conversation. Portions of instruction may be offered online; may also be offered fully online.
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ENSL 426 - English Skills for Success I (0 units)
Non Credit • Total hours: 8.5-68 hours lecture
This is a course at the high-beginning or low-intermediate level for the non-native speaker, emphasizing listening and conversation. Portions of instruction may be offered online; may also be offered fully online.
Repeatable: Noncredit
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ENSL 328 - Pronunciation and Spelling (4 units)
Pass/No Pass (P/NP) Only • Total hours: 68 hours lecture
This is a course for beginning and intermediate students including a systematic introduction to understanding, pronouncing, spelling, and reading English with emphasis on speech from individual sounds through multi-syllable words. Portions of instruction may be offered online; may also be offered fully online.
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ENSL 428 - Pronunciation and Spelling (0 units)
Non Credit • Total hours: 68 hours lecture
This is a course for beginning and intermediate students including a systematic introduction to understanding, pronouncing, spelling, and reading English with emphasis on speech from individual sounds through multi-syllable words. Portions of instruction may be offered online; may also be offered fully online.
Repeatable: Noncredit
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ENSL 336 - English Skills for Success II (0.5-4 units)
Pass/No Pass (P/NP) Only • Total hours: 8.5-68 hours lecture
This is a course at the low-intermediate level for the non-native speaker, emphasizing listening, speaking, grammar and writing. Portions of instruction may be offered online; may also be offered fully online.
Catalog Program Pages Referencing ENSL 336
ENSL 436 - English Skills for Success II (0 units)
Non Credit • Total hours: 8.5-68 hours lecture
This is a course at the low-intermediate level for the non-native speaker, emphasizing listening, speaking, grammar and writing. Portions of instruction may be offered online; may also be offered fully online.
Repeatable: Noncredit
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ENSL 337 - Low-Intermediate ESL for the Workplace (2 units)
Pass/No Pass (P/NP) Only • Total hours: 34 hours lecture
This is a low-intermediate course for the non-native speaker emphasizing commonly used structures, communicative functions, and vocabulary as used in the workplace. Portions of instruction may be offered online; may also be offered fully online.
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ENSL 437 - Low-Intermediate ESL for the Workplace (0 units)
Non Credit • Total hours: 34 hours lecture
This is a low-intermediate course for the non-native speaker emphasizing commonly used structures, communicative functions, and vocabulary as used in the workplace Portions of instruction may be offered online; may also be offered fully online.
Repeatable: Noncredit
