Course Overview

ELUSC-A

The core syllabus of ELUSC-A is an intensive language and culture immersion experience that will provide some flexibility for individual students as it addresses major language skills—reading, writing, speaking and listening—through a theme-based approach.

Themes will include issues in American popular culture, local news, global news and business news. Students will read short and long articles on various topics, write response papers and longer essays, do vocabulary-building exercises, process videos and guest lectures, and practice pronunciation and fluency in discussion and presentation settings. In addition, ELUSC-A students will have the opportunity to learn about the Rochester business and cultural community through a number of extracurricular activities, including trips to museums and attendance at sporting events and theatrical performances. The course will provide students with fundamental language skills that will be more fully developed in the business-intensive ELUSC-B program. ELUSC-A, as well as its companion, ELUSC-B, is appropriate for students commencing their M.B.A. or M.S. studies in September 2009.

ELUSC-B and ELUSC-C

ELUSC-B/Business Focus and ELUSC-C are designed to provide participants with intensive small group classroom instruction as well as extracurricular activities, which will reinforce language and learning insights into United States culture and business and specifically prepare students for their M.B.A. or M.S. study experience. ELUSC-B runs for a period of five weeks for students commencing their M.B.A. or M.S. studies in September 2009; ELUSC-C is an extended version of this program, ideally suited for students who have elected to enroll in the accelerated M.B.A. program that commences January 2010. Core classes are taught by members of the Simon School’s Management Communication faculty, nationally recognized for the teaching of English as a Second Language and cross-cultural communication skills in educational and corporate settings, and by other English as a Second Language experts from the local and University of Rochester communities. Both ELUSC-B and ELUSC-C will address essential language and cultural understandings for international students in three focus areas: English Language and Academic Communication Skills, Orientation to American Business, and U.S. Culture.