Recent SemestersSpring 2025Class SizeNot publishedCredits4PrerequisiteESL 325 with a grade of "C" or better, or placement through the assessment process. Transfers ToCSUCSU GE Area C2DescriptionThis course is designed to improve vocabulary and reading skills for advanced students. Readings include selected essays, poetry, plays, short stories, and novels. Students will read and discuss literature from a variety of cultural perspectives, including non-Western and non-Eurocentric authors and texts. This course develops a critical awareness of the multicultural contributions of, and social experiences of, underrepresented ethnic/racial minority groups in the United States. Throughout the course, students will also juxtapose their own experience, and that of their culture, with the U.S. social experience exposed in the texts. This course emphasizes critical thinking skills and reading strategies needed for academic performance: (1) vocabulary development, (2) analysis and comprehension skills, (3) flexibility of reading rate. The course also emphasizes the comparison and contrast of universal and metaphorical themes. 