SUNBRIDGE INSTITUTE OF ENGLISH
Diploma in English Language Studies (DipEngl)
Diploma Courses
SUNBRIDGE PHILOSOPHY
Textbooks are very expensive and they go out of date very quickly. Schools are often left with unusable books and handouts. Professors need to keep revising their presentation materials, and students who buy used texts from senior students may be wasting their money if the text is no longer current.
Rather than burden students with an enormous cost in textbooks (often over $100 a book), Sunbridge has opted, whenever practical, to take a research-based approach to its diploma studies.
Thanks to the Internet, an immense volume of pertinent material is now available to students on almost every imaginable subject. Therefore, while we will generally offer suggestions for reference texts, students do not usually have to purchase or use these in many of our courses. There may be some courses where studies have to follow a particular text...but not many. Instead, we will often either provide links to readings or assign a premise and ask the student to develop a paper based on his or her research.
This approach enables students and school mentors alike to take advantage of the most current thinking and documentation available. It also promotes curiosity and research development in our students. This diploma is an undergraduate-level program. Students will learn to not only read about a topic but perform research and begin to write papers on the respective subjects they are studying. This is an ability that will benefit them immensly in their careers and especially should they opt to continue their studies to the graduate level or beyond.
Dr. Robert W. Taylor
Dean of Studies
Diploma Courses
Intermediate Level 15 Credits
Core courses - 12 credits
• Intermediate Reading and Writing (6 credits)
• Intermediate Listening and Speaking (6 credits)
Electives 3 credits from the following:
• Intermediate Pronunciation (3 credits)
• English through Conversation (3 credits)
• Intercultural Awareness (3 credits)
Upper Intermediate Level 15 credits
Core courses - 12 credits
• English for Academic Purposes 1 (6 credits)
• Academic Listening and Speaking Skills 1 (6 credits)
Electives 3 credits from the following:
• Upper Intermediate Pronunciation (3 credits)
• Business Communications 1 (3 credits)
• Reading Across the Curriculum (3 credits)
Advanced Level 15 credits
Core courses - 9 credits
• English for Academic Purposes 2 (6 credits)
• Academic Listening and Speaking Skills 2 (3 credits)
Electives 6 credits from the following:
• 1 university level course of low language demand * (3 credits)
• Advanced Pronunciation (3 credits)
• Modern American and Canadian Literature (3 credits)
• One acceptable low language demand course * (3 credits)
Upper Advanced Level - 15 credits
Core courses 9 credits
• English for Academic Purposes 3 (6 credits)
• Academic Listening and Speaking Skills 3 (3 credits)
Electives 6 credits from the following:
• Up to 2 university level courses of low language demand * (3 or 6 credits)
• Self-Directed Reading and Writing (3 credits)
• Classis English Literature (3 credits)
• English through Films (3 credits)
• One acceptable low language demand course * (3 credits)
* University level courses of low language demand include:
• Computer Science courses
• Mathematics courses (Trigonometry, pre-Calculus, Calculus)
• Science courses (Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Human Biology)