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Upcoming Electives

Fall 1
2008 Electives: August 25 - October 6
(No class Monday, September 1)

Fall 1 2008 Electives: Aug. 25 - Oct. 6

(08/25/08 -10/06/08)

All electives are six weeks in length and meet in the O’Keefe Building on campus. Download the Fall 1 application here.

Word Power: Building Test Vocabulary for the SAT and GRE Exams

• Intermediate to Advanced
• 6 contact hours
• 3:05-4 p.m. Thursdays
• Suggested Text: Vocabulary and Spelling Success in 20 Minutes a Day, By Learning Express (available at the GT Bookstore)
• Cost: $50 for current LI students
  $100 for non-LI students

Prepare for vocabulary questions on important standardized college entrance tests such as the SAT and GRE. Study word roots and parts to help figure out meanings of new words. Some class time is devoted to choosing vocabulary answers in realistic test settings.

GRE/GMAT Writing Course

• Advanced
• 6 contact hours
• Time: 2:05-3 p.m. Mondays
• Required Text: none
• Cost: $50 for current LI students
  $100 for non-LI students

Learn strategies for writing the issue and argument essays on the GMAT and GRE. Learn what readers expect and how they score essays. Particular emphasis will be placed on how to approach the various types of questions on the argument essay. Learn by brainstorming the argument and ways to support it, learning appropriate grammar structures, and analyzing models of argument essays.

TOEFL Courses

iBT TOEFL Preparation: Strategies & Practice—Reading

• Intermediate to Advanced
• 6 contact hours
• Time: 2:05-3 p.m. Mondays
• Required Text: Longman Preparation for the TOEFL Test – IBT by Deborah Phillips (available at the GT Bookstore)
• Cost: $50 for current LI students
  $100 for non-LI students

In this course you will get an overview of the types of questions you can expect to see on the reading section of the iBT TOEFL.  The instructor will introduce each type of question and then give you strategies to answer the questions. You will spend class time learning to identify question types and practicing strategies to answer the questions under timed conditions. You will also learn strategies to increase your reading speed.

iBT TOEFL Preparation: Strategies & Practice—Speaking

• Intermediate to Advanced
• 6 contact hours
• Time: 2:05-3 p.m. Tuesdays
• Required Text: Longman Preparation for the TOEFL Test – IBT by Deborah Phillips (available at the GT Bookstore)

• Cost: $50 for current LI students
  $100 for non-LI students

In this class, you will get an overview of the three kinds of tasks that make up the speaking section of the iBT TOEFL You will gain a better understanding of how the answers to this section of the test are scored and learn strategies that will help you improve your speaking score.  You will be given the opportunity to practice these strategies and the instructor will help you identify ways that you can improve your responses to the questions.    

iBT TOEFL Preparation: Strategies & Practice—Writing

• Intermediate to Advanced
• 6 contact hours
• Time: 2:05-3 p.m. Wednesdays
• Required Text: Longman Preparation for the TOEFL Test – IBT by Deborah Phillips (available at the GT Bookstore)
• Cost: $50 for current LI students
  $100 for non-LI students

In this class you will learn about the two kinds of writing tasks on the writing section for the iBT TOEFL. You will gain a better understanding of how responses to these tasks are scored and learn strategies that will help you improve your writing score.  You will be given the opportunity to practice these strategies and the instructor will help you identify ways that you can improve your responses to the questions.   You will not be doing most of the writing in class. You will be expected to do some writing outside of class.  Class time will be spent on strategies and feedback.

iBT TOEFL Preparation: Strategies & Practice—Listening

• Intermediate to Advanced
• 6 contact hours
• Time: 2:05-3 p.m. Thursdays
• Required Text: Longman Preparation for the TOEFL Test – IBT by Deborah Phillips (available at the GT Bookstore)
• Cost: $50 for current LI students
  $100 for non-LI students

In this class, you will learn about the two types of listening materials found on the listening section of the iBT TOEFL. You will also learn about the different question types on the test and learn strategies to answer these questions.  You will practice answering the different types of questions, including main idea and detail questions, speaker attitude and purpose questions, and synthesizing and inferencing questions and learn how to take more effective notes by identifying organizational patterns and discourse clues.