Exciting new Summer Class for non-native Speakers

The UCLA Summer Institute in Communication Skills for International Students is inaugurating a new course of studies.  Offered through UCLA's Department of Communication Studies, the Institute is a six-week, intensive program of study, providing international students a holistic learning experience in American-style English.  Comprised of two courses, CS1A (Public Speaking for Nonnative Speakers) and CS1B (Learning American English and Culture from the Movies) the Institute is an immersion-style program, designed to enable nonnative speakers to communicate competently in both personal and professional situations.  In short, students will learn to interact effectively and easily with Americans----in America, in their home country, in the world.

Communication Studies 1A, Public Speaking for Nonnative Speakers, will be taught by Sylvia Merschel, who has been teaching this class for eighteen years.   Communication Studies 1B, Learning American English and Culture from the Movies, will be taught by Dr. Dee Bridgewater, who has developed many highly-acclaimed innovative classes in his thirty years of teaching at UCLA.

Students can take either course independently.  Student taking both courses will earn a certificate of completion from the UCLA Summer Institute in Communication Skills for International Students, indicating their successful participation in this innovative, comprehensive program.

For more details please see the Institute's Summer Session web site:

http://www.summer.ucla.edu/institutes/Communication/overview.htm

 

Sylvia Merschel

Lecturer - UCLA Summer Sessions
Communication Studies 1A
UCLA

Department of Communication Studies

Contacts:

Sylvia Merschel

merschel@ucla.edu

Communication Studies 1A

Public Speaking for Nonnative Speakers

Dee Bridgewater, PhD

dbridge@ucla.edu

Communication Studies 1B

Learning American English and Culture from the Movies