The Certificate of Competency: Low-Intermediate – Noncredit ESL enables beginning English as a Second Language (ESL) learners to develop basic listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills to communicate in familiar situations at work, school, and in the community. The program allows students working towards their personal, academic, and professional goals.  The minimum total number of hours to be completed in the required courses is 198 hours (ESL 511 = 108 hours; ESL 512 = 90 hours).  

This certificate is awarded by the ESL Department and is not displayed on the official college transcript.

Program Learning Outcomes

- Communicate effectively at the low-intermediate level of proficiency.

- Differentiate main ideas from details in oral and written communication at the low-intermediate level of proficiency.

- Compose and edit sentence and paragraph writing at the low-intermediate level of proficiency.

- Demonstrate the ability to use information technology at the low-intermediate level of proficiency.

- Demonstrate the awareness of social justice at the low-intermediate level of proficiency.