The department currently offers four English courses, out of which three are offered to all the students in each and every department, while the fourth one is specifically designed to be taken by students in the department of Law. The courses are:

COMMUNICATION SKILLS (ENLA 100 - 3 Credit Hours)

Modern thinking on English teaching places much greater emphasis on communication. By this is meant the use of English for a meaningful purpose. While maintaining the importance of the teaching of language structure, Communication Skills is based on detailed topics of both language items and communicative functions. The course based is on a text full of interesting and enjoyable activities involving the meaningful and purposeful use of English. Largely, the course material deals with listening and speaking as well as providing sufficient exposure to reading and writing. Grammar and Vocabulary are also taken up adequately. Communication Skills is a course offered at first year first semester with the objective of developing the four language skills and study skills. It is a four contact-hour course.

Prerequisite: None

SOPHOMORE ENGLISH (ENLA 201-3 Credit Hours)

The course deals with basic writing skills. Particularly, it is concerned with such topics as combining sentences, writing grammatically correct and meaningful sentences, paragraph writing: choosing and limiting a subject; writing limited topic sentences; gathering and evaluating supporting details; writing concluding sentences; qualities of a good paragraph (Unity, coherence, development etc); Methods of paragraph development (definition cause-effect, classification, etc), writing a composition: thesis statement, outlining, developing body paragraphs, writing a conclusion, the mechanics of writing (punctuation, capitalization, spelling)

Prerequisite: Communication Skills (ENLA 100)

BUSINESS ENGLISH (ENLA 202 - 3 Credit Hours)

This is a quasi-ESP course dealing with major business correspondences. The course deals with such basic topics as an overview of communication (definition and origin of communication, elements and characteristics of communication, barriers of communication); organizational communication (the formal and the informal system); written business correspondence (electronic communication, memo, various formal business letters, employment communication, meetings and writing minutes, describing organizational charts, social business letters, press releases, notices, instructions etc), oral communication, and business report writing. It is a three-contact and three credit hour course.

Prerequisite: Sophomore English ENLA 201

ENGLISH FOR LAW (ENLA 300)

English for Law:- this is also a kind of ESP course specifically designed to address the needs of students in the department of Law. The course attempts to help students understand and be familiar with the language of Law by exposing them contexts that are rich in legal cases and relevant documents. Students are particularly encouraged to develop their argumentative writing skill in English.

Prerequisite: Sophomore English ENLA 201