English for Academic/Professional Purposes (EAPP)
EAPP 1000 Composition and Reading (3)
This course prepares students to subsequently master their college writing requirements. In addition to developing an advanced understanding of English syntax, morphology, and semantics, students explore the process of composing, revising, and editing in English and the expectations of academic writing to different audience expectations in Global Perspectives.
EAPP 1050 Multicultural Speech (3)
This course prepares students to master public speaking and interpersonal dynamics with a focus on Race and Inclusion in the USA. In addition to developing an advanced understanding of English phonology, semantics, and pragmatics, students focus on the communication strategies hat make presentations and interpersonal interactions memorable and smooth.
EAPP 1940 Transfer Coursework (0-20)
Transfer Coursework at the 1000 level.
Maximum Hours: 99
EAPP 3010 Academic and Professional Rhetoric (1)
In this six-week course, students will develop an advanced understanding of English syntax, semantics and mechanics. They will engage with both spoken and written academic documents that engage expert knowledge in a scholarly manner. Additionally, students will understand the rhetoric necessary for intellectual inquiry and independent research in both academic and professional environments, and they will incorporate these skills into their current university courses. The course includes an optional service-learning component. The service learning will enhance students understanding and development of citizenship skills within the context of their local, national, and global communities.
EAPP 3510 Teaching and Working Abroad (3)
This course is designed to develop students with little teaching and working experience with the academic and practical skills needed to teach and work abroad, especially English in a foreign language environment. Students are encouraged but not required to also enroll in EAPP 3520: Living and Working Abroad in order to complete the two-course series.
EAPP 3520 Living and Working Abroad (3)
This 3-credit course is designed to give students a practical working knowledge of the linguistics of English and intercultural skills needed to live and work abroad, especially when teaching English as a foreign language. Students are encouraged but not required to also enroll in EAPP 3510: Teaching and Working Abroad in order to complete the two-course series.
EAPP 3530 Global English in Business (3)
'Global English in Business' focusses on enhancing communicative and cultural competency skills as they apply to the use of World Englishes in business contexts. It is designed to explore one of the World Englishes’ variations used in Business as a profession and social practice. The course seeks to analyze the interdiscursive texts of professionals in the business world to understand how language builds new relationships that are unique within their own spaces. Precisely, we examine varied samples of global business literature and theories written in World Englishes to critically evaluate how English as a professional communicative language vary in different business cultures around the world. Lastly, learners in this course are tasked with interrogating the role of World Englishes and how it generally applies to multiple business cultures around the globe. Language skills addressed in this course include business communicative competency, writing and speaking fluency in World Englishes, and business vocabulary development skills. This course is open to students who are interested in studying, working or interning in a business-related environment abroad. The course has a service-learning component that fulfills both tier I and II Tulane service-learning requirement. The course is open to all undergraduate students.
EAPP 3810 Special Topics (3)
Maximum Hours: 99
EAPP 3820 Special Topics (3)
Maximum Hours: 99
EAPP 3830 Special Topics (3)
Maximum Hours: 99
EAPP 3840 Special Topics (3)
Maximum Hours: 99
EAPP 3890 Service Learning (0-1)
Maximum Hours: 99