Credit-rated modules

Courses

These courses will enable you to improve your communication skills in English for academic purposes and gain credits at the same time. They are intended primarily for undergraduate students on either Exeter degree programmes or study abroad programmes, eg students on exchange programmes such as Erasmus. As they are credit-rated courses, enrolment will be restricted to students requiring credits for Exeter degrees or by their home universities.

Credit-rated courses are offered at two levels, intermediate and advanced. Students taking intermediate courses will be working at Common European Framework (CEF) reference level B2. On advanced level courses students will be working at CEF reference level C1.

Available modules

The following modules can be taken for credit. Each module has a credit value of 15 (7.5 ECTS).

• ELC1724 - Listening and Speaking for Academic Study (Intermediate) and ELC2725 - Listening and Speaking for Academic Study (Advanced)
  
  These modules are designed to help you improve your listening and speaking in an academic context. The skills of listening and speaking are develop through various topics of general   interest, such as communication, justice, education, and health & welfare.

• ELC1714 - Reading and Writing for Academic Study (Intermediate) and ELC2715 - Reading and Writing for Academic Study (Advanced)
  
  These modules will help you to improve your reading and writing for academic purposes. The focus will be on raising awareness of the requirements of academic writing, reading and writing practice, and strategies and techniques in reading for academic study through English.

All students registering on credit-rated courses must be committed to the programme and be prepared to meet the assessment and attendance criteria (80% attendance). For each course there will be 4 hours of classes per week (2 x 2 hours). Out of class, students will be required to undertake assigned tasks and self-directed study. You will be able to make use of the independent learning resources in INTO’s Learning Resources Centre. All students will normally be required to take a placement test.

More information

For further information on timetables, enrolment and the placement test, visit the timetable page. All students will need to register as insessional students.