XEFL-302 - Integrated Communication Skills III

Course Description

This course focuses on improving students’ overall communicative ability in both informal and formal language tasks such as apologizing, making recommendations, giving a warning, participating in group conversations, and speaking on the telephone. Students will also work on academic skills such as giving presentations, reading academic texts, and writing persuasive paragraphs. There will be special attention on adjusting speech depending on the scenario and relationships.

This course combines speaking, listening, reading, and writing practice. Students will learn vocabulary related to gossip, shopping, customer service, and the environment. Writing assignments include summaries, reviews, posters, and formal opinionated paragraphs. Course content is presented in themes related to entertainment, customer service, and the environment. 

Before taking this course, students are expected to be able to speak and write in connected sentences in present, past, and future tense. They should be able to speak comfortably in everyday social situations and be able to write paragraph-length texts about familiar topics. Students should be able to understand familiar spoken and written texts with a good amount of accuracy.

Application Instructions

The English Language Center is currently teaching all classes in-person. In order to maintain safety, Georgetown requires students, faculty, staff and visitors to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and to have received a COVID-19 vaccine booster shot when eligible, or to have an approved medical or religious exemption. We will continue to monitor public health guidelines to ensure full safety and compliance. For more information, please refer to Georgetown’s resource page on COVID-19 vaccines.

Course registration is made with a student's debit card or credit card after creating a student profile during the following registration periods:

• Early registration price: $486

• Regular registration price: $540

• Late registration price: $594

I. Mandatory Placement Test Requirement:

All new and returning students are required to take a placement exam before classes begin to determine their correct placement into the course section. After completing registration, you will receive a payment confirmation email including your placement test appointment. If you are unable to attend at the appointed time, you must contact Program Manager Regan Carver at 202-687-4592 or guELC@georgetown.edu immediately to make alternative arrangements.

Please note that your enrollment will not be complete until you take your placement test. All placement tests will be administered remotely using an online test. Students will be required to have access to a computer with a high-speed internet connection, as well as audio and video capabilities. Program staff will work with you to communicate additional technology requirements. Within one week after the placement test, you will receive an email with your final course placement.

The Evening & Weekend English program reserves the right to move students to a different level of a course if placement test results or first class diagnostic testing warrants it. All such moves will be completed in the first week of classes with no additional charge to the student.

If your placement test results indicate that you do not meet the minimum English proficiency level required for admission to the Evening & Weekend English program, you will receive a 100% refund of your course tuition payment minus a nonrefundable $50 administrative fee per course enrolled.

II. Fall 2022 Transfers

No Fall 2022 Semester self-request transfer requests will be accepted if received after Friday, September 2, 2022.

III. Fall 2022 Refund and Withdrawals:

There are no tuition refunds for drops/withdrawals requested four (4) or fewer calendar days before the published start date of the course section or after the course section has started. If you have questions regarding test scheduling, contact Program Manager Regan Carver at 202-687-5978 or guELC@georgetown.edu.

• 14 calendar days or more before the published start date of the course section: 100% tuition refund less $50 admin fee

• Between 14 and five (5) days before the published start date of the course section: 75% tuition refund less $50 admin fee

• Four (4) or fewer calendar days before the published start date of the course section or after the course section has started: $0

Refunds will be credited back to the credit card used to make the payment 30 days after the drop has been processed.

Please contact SCS Student Accounts at noncreditaccounts@georgetown.edu if you have questions about your refund payment. Note: We do not allow deferred enrollment from one semester to another.

Applies Towards the Following Certificates

• Evening & Weekend English : Electives