This course offers tools that will help students to navigate the changes that come with moving on to a new school. Students will learn how to define and set achievable goals, use time wisely as well as establish and nurture relationships with instructors and peers, allowing them to respond to stress positively and balance studies, jobs, friends and families. Students will have a greater opportunity for academic success as they develop effective study habits, note taking strategies, and test-taking skills. They will achieve greater confidence as they enhance academic integrity and learn creative ways to solve problems.
This course covers concepts, theories, and frameworks fundamental to building mutual respect between people across cultures. The course demonstrates how students can help build stronger teams and communities that benefit from the power of understanding diverse worldviews, attitudes, and contributions. It highlights the skills and attributes students need so they can collaborate effectively in a multicultural context. While honoring their knowledge and experiences, this course provides a venue for exploring creative ways of bridging a student’s perspective with that of others who have backgrounds different from their own. Students will develop skills for communicating and working within a diverse setting.
Students in this course will build a variety of digital skills for settlement success, while simultaneously developing language skills in English. Students will develop digital skills, including using apps and websites for additional language practice, locating information on websites, and following instructions in online surveys and applications, while applying these skills to authentic tasks for settlement purposes. Students will expand their vocabulary relating to digital skills and online tools. Skills developed in the course can be applied in a variety of future contexts, including academic programs and future workplace situations.
Students in this course will build a variety of digital skills for settlement success, while simultaneously developing language skills in English. Students will develop digital skills, including using apps and websites for additional language practice, locating information on websites, and following instructions in online surveys and applications, while applying these skills to authentic tasks for settlement purposes. Students will expand their vocabulary relating to digital skills and online tools. Skills developed in the course can be applied in a variety of future contexts, including academic programs and future workplace situations.
Students in this course will build a variety of digital skills for settlement success, while simultaneously developing language skills in English. Students will develop digital skills, including using apps and websites for additional language practice, locating information on websites, and following instructions in online surveys and applications, while applying these skills to authentic tasks for settlement purposes. Students will expand their vocabulary relating to digital skills and online tools. Skills developed in the course can be applied in a variety of future contexts, including academic programs and future workplace situations.
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In this course, students at beginner and low-intermediate language levels will improve their grammatical accuracy and fluency while communicating in English. Students in this introductory grammar course will learn, review, and practice a variety of foundational grammatical constructions and punctuation rules while creating questions, affirmative and negative statements. Students will also select appropriate verb tenses and time expressions to describe events, habits, and actions in the past, present, and future. Students will begin to develop editing skills for written grammar and identify potential grammatical skills for future improvement.
In this course, students at beginner and low-intermediate language levels will improve their grammatical accuracy and fluency while communicating in English. Students in this introductory grammar course will learn, review, and practice a variety of foundational grammatical constructions and punctuation rules while creating questions, affirmative and negative statements. Students will also select appropriate verb tenses and time expressions to describe events, habits, and actions in the past, present, and future. Students will begin to develop editing skills for written grammar and identify potential grammatical skills for future improvement.
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In this pre-intermediate course, students will practice a variety of conversational strategies to increase fluency, confidence and expand vocabulary related to various everyday topics in Canada. By engaging in small talk, discussions, dialogues, and group conversations, students will develop skills to start, maintain and end informal interactions, take turns and interrupt politely as well as recognize both verbal and non-verbal cues in a variety of contexts. Students will be encouraged to explore and experiment with new vocabulary and topics related to everyday life in Canada.
In this pre-intermediate course, students will practice a variety of conversational strategies to increase fluency, confidence and expand vocabulary related to various everyday topics in Canada. By engaging in small talk, discussions, dialogues, and group conversations, students will develop skills to start, maintain and end informal interactions, take turns and interrupt politely as well as recognize both verbal and non-verbal cues in a variety of contexts. Students will be encouraged to explore and experiment with new vocabulary and topics related to everyday life in Canada.
Students in this course will expand their digital skills for academic success, while continuing to enhance their English language skills. Students will develop digital literacy competencies for college success, including using all college-related apps and websites, as well as those unique to their programs and career goals. Students will have an opportunity to explore how to protect personal information online, as well as investigate the role of social media in education and community integration. Students will apply their newly developed digital skills in experiential learning contexts, while expanding their vocabulary to communicate on topics related to digital tools and apps used at the college.
Students in this course will expand their digital skills for academic success, while continuing to enhance their English language skills. Students will develop digital literacy competencies for college success, including using all college-related apps and websites, as well as those unique to their programs and career goals. Students will have an opportunity to explore how to protect personal information online, as well as investigate the role of social media in education and community integration. Students will apply their newly developed digital skills in experiential learning contexts, while expanding their vocabulary to communicate on topics related to digital tools and apps used at the college.
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Students in this intermediate grammar course will continue working on their grammatical accuracy and fluency to enhance their skills in English writing and prepare for a variety of academic tasks in their future academic programs. Students will increase accuracy with verb tenses, sentence structures, parts of speech, and word order through course materials and activities. They will apply a variety of techniques and grammatical structures while talking and writing about past, present, and future events and actions.
Students in this intermediate grammar course will continue working on their grammatical accuracy and fluency to enhance their skills in English writing and prepare for a variety of academic tasks in their future academic programs. Students will increase accuracy with verb tenses, sentence structures, parts of speech, and word order through course materials and activities. They will apply a variety of techniques and grammatical structures while talking and writing about past, present, and future events and actions.
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In this course, students will continue to improve their fluency and conversational strategies by engaging in a variety of communicative tasks and role plays. Students will develop their skills to communicate successfully in a Canadian context by engaging with course materials and assignments that cover a range of topics and skills, from informal everyday conversations to structured and formal discussions and meetings. Students will also strengthen their active listening strategies. Students who successfully complete this course will be better prepared to handle communication challenges in personal and academic situations.
In this course, students will continue to improve their fluency and conversational strategies by engaging in a variety of communicative tasks and role plays. Students will develop their skills to communicate successfully in a Canadian context by engaging with course materials and assignments that cover a range of topics and skills, from informal everyday conversations to structured and formal discussions and meetings. Students will also strengthen their active listening strategies. Students who successfully complete this course will be better prepared to handle communication challenges in personal and academic situations.
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In this experiential course, students will explore historic and cultural sites and events within Winnipeg, while continuing to develop their English language skills. Students will visit places of interest and events in Winnipeg to apply their language skills in authentic and experiential learning contexts, while gaining familiarity and confidence in their new home. Students will explore Indigenous perspectives and history and participate in a relevant excursion or event to apply and deepen their learning. Learners will explore topics including history, celebrations, and culture, while reflecting on diversity in a multicultural society.
In this experiential course, students will explore historic and cultural sites and events within Winnipeg, while continuing to develop their English language skills. Students will visit places of interest and events in Winnipeg to apply their language skills in authentic and experiential learning contexts, while gaining familiarity and confidence in their new home. Students will explore Indigenous perspectives and history and participate in a relevant excursion or event to apply and deepen their learning. Learners will explore topics including history, celebrations, and culture, while reflecting on diversity in a multicultural society.
In this course, students will prepare for the language demands of technical academic programs. Students will develop technical vocabulary through reading textbooks, articles, and documents, and listening to presentations, lectures, and workplace meetings. Students will develop and demonstrate speaking skills to deliver technical presentations, discuss challenges, recommend solutions, and resolve conflicts. Learners will strengthen writing skills through workplace task practice such as emails, reports, and technical documents. Students will participate in experiential learning opportunities and authentic experiences to develop both their communicative and intercultural competence for success in technical academic programs and workplace contexts.
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In this course, students will explore the specific language and academic demands of their target academic program at RRC Polytech. Students will investigate discipline-specific terminology for their program area, and complete authentic projects aligned with their program of study. Students will develop both their communicative and intercultural competence for success in their target academic programs and industry, as well as begin to develop their academic and professional network, through experiential learning opportunities within a range of academic programs. Students will use these experiences to set goals and create an individualized learning plan for future academic and professional success.
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Students will build increasing confidence with their English language speaking and listening skills in this course. Students will continue listening to a range of texts, including podcasts, videos, presentations, and conversations, building listening strategies to identify key words, supporting points, opinions, and main ideas. Learners will practice speaking functions such as giving advice, making requests, asking for clarification, and facilitating discussions. Learners will continue to focus on improving both accuracy and fluency in speaking, through an expanding range of grammatical structures and vocabulary.
In this intermediate-level course, students will develop their listening comprehension and socio-cultural communication skills for success in settlement contexts and prepare for academic and employment goals. Participants will practice listening to identify key phrases and information, speakers’ attitudes, and to make inferences and distinguish fact from opinion, in both conversational and pre-recorded contexts. Students will practice conversation management and facilitate discussions, as well as deliver short presentations and share opinions. Students will apply these skills in formal and casual situations, building confidence incorporating a range of expressions. Learners will continue to enhance fluency and expand accuracy with grammatical structures and vocabulary.
In this upper intermediate course, multilingual learners will improve their listening and speaking fluency for academic and employment readiness. Students will identify main ideas, supporting details and specific information, and academic vocabulary in complex employment and discipline-related listening texts. They will practice listening to identify bias, contrasting ideas, and cause and effect relationships, as well as to make predictions and inferences in a variety of listening contexts. Students will also practice delivering presentations on academic or employment-related topics, demonstrating strong fluency and accuracy in vocabulary and grammar.
In this advanced listening course, learners will refine their academic listening skills for post-secondary success. Students will practice identifying examples and supporting information, facts and opinions, cause and effect relationships, as well as making predictions and inferences in a variety of listening contexts, including post-secondary level formal and informal lectures, presentations, and discussions. Additionally, students will explore strategies for recognizing bias, attitude, and tone. Throughout the course, students will apply listening strategies to practice advanced note taking skills, using a range of graphic organizers and styles for different types of listening tasks.
In this advanced speaking course, learners will improve their speaking fluency for post-secondary success. Students will demonstrate academic level speaking skills to confidently produce fluent and organized presentations, discussions, and summaries on a range of topics, while using a variety of communication strategies. Students will apply speaking skills in group work contexts, including sharing information, preferences, and opinions, clarifying information, and managing turn-taking, disagreements, and problem-solving. Learners will demonstrate an advanced range of multidisciplinary vocabulary, expressions, and complex grammatical structures to their speaking.
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In this advanced writing course, students will enhance their fluency and accuracy in a range of professional and academic writing tasks, including complex summaries, analyses, and essays, as well as professional emails and reports. Learners will practice creating an outline and research report aligned with their field of study, following rules of academic integrity, and applying critical thinking, summarizing, and paraphrasing skills. Students will demonstrate advanced academic vocabulary and a variety of complex grammatical structures in their written assignments. This course will prepare students for their future written assignments in academic and professional contexts.
In this course, students will develop their English language reading and writing skills to build a foundation for success with settlement, academic, and employment activities. Students will apply a variety of reading strategies to build active reading comprehension skills, increasing their ability to preview, skim, and analyze a text, while identifying critical paragraph features. Students will develop writing skills to organize and show relationships between ideas within sentences and paragraphs. Students will build foundational skills in grammar, vocabulary, and mechanics in writing.
In this intermediate-level course, students will further develop their reading and writing skills for post-secondary studies, employment, and daily life. Participants will strengthen reading strategies, such as previewing, scanning, note-taking, and creating graphic organizers, to enhance comprehension of increasingly complex academic and employment-related reading passages. Students will continue to practice identifying main ideas, key phrases, facts, and opinions in these texts. Participants will focus on increasingly complex writing tasks, such as outlines, summaries, and connected paragraphs, improving accuracy in intermediate grammatical structures and vocabulary.
In this upper intermediate course, students will refine their reading and writing skills for academic and employment readiness. Learners will identify main ideas and supporting details in increasingly complex reading texts and apply reading strategies like previewing, annotating, and creating an outline. Additionally, learners will compose essays to express complex information on a range of topics and will enhance persuasive and personal writing skills and create summaries that incorporate paraphrasing strategies. Learners will continue to focus on improving both accuracy and fluency, through an expanding range of grammatical structures and vocabulary.
In this course, learners will prepare for success with complex multidisciplinary academic texts, reports, and articles. Students will build reading strategies to identify main ideas and details, as well as contrast ideas, recognize facts and opinions, identify author's intent, make inferences, and analyze text structure and signposting language. Students will engage in the research process to investigate individualized projects related to their post-secondary goals, applying proper documentation and citations to maintain academic integrity, and expanding their ability to learn and evaluate information through the research process. Learners will expand their academic vocabulary for a range of disciplines and genres.
In this advanced writing course, students will enhance their fluency and accuracy in a range of professional and academic writing tasks, including complex summaries, analyses, and essays, as well as professional emails and reports. Learners will practice creating an outline and research report aligned with their field of study, following rules of academic integrity, and applying critical thinking, summarizing, and paraphrasing skills. Students will demonstrate advanced academic vocabulary and a variety of complex grammatical structures in their written assignments. This course will prepare students for their future written assignments in academic and professional contexts.