Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Course work:
Assignment
Tests
Writing assignments
Presentations
About 12 quizzes
Final exam
Total Points
Semester Schedule:
Week Materials
1 + 2 - Diagnostic
testing
- Grammar and
Beyond 4 Units
17, 9, and 10
- Real Grammar
units 2 and 3
- GB Units 11 +
3
12
4+5
5+6
GB Units 2, 3, +
4
GB Units 5, 6, +
7
6+7
8+9
10
Points
50 each
50 each
50 each
10 each
100
Topics
- Review simple, progressive, and present
perfect
- Past perfect
- Past perfect progressive
- Past conditionals
- Time clauses and expressions
- Demonstratives
- Passive voice
- Appositives
- IELTS practice
- Subordinate clauses
- Real and unreal conditionals
- Participle phrases
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Total points
200
200
100
120
100
About 720
Assessments
- Narrative writing
- Quizzes 1 and 2
Definition presentation
Quizzes 3 and 4
Test 1
Cause and effect
writing
Quizzes 5 and 6
Test 2
Compare and contrast
writing
Quizzes 7 and 8
Response writing
Quizzes 9 and 10
Test 3
Grammar analysis
presentation
Quizzes 11 and 12
Test 4
Final exam
Make-up policy
If you miss class, you must e-mail the instructor (tlr258@psu.edu) within 24 hours in order to be notified of
the classwork/homework and schedule make-up times for tests and quizzes. Late homework will be accepted,
but 10% will be subtracted for every class it is late. At the end of the semester, you will receive a letter grade
in this course.
Classroom Behavior
Students in this class should:
1. Treat their teacher and fellow students with respect.
2. Pay attention in class and complete all in-class work quickly.
3. Be responsible for their own learning.
If a student is using his or her phone, tablet, or laptop for activities not related to the class, the teacher may take
away the device or mark the student absent from class.
IECP Policies
Please consult the current IECP Student Handbook on the IECP website for full details on the following
policies. You may ask for a copy of the IECP Student Handbook at the IECP Office in 102 Ritenour Building.
IECP Attendance Policy
Attending all of your classes every day is very important.
Attendance is a very important obligation for all IECP students. Absences limit a students language learning
ability. Absences also have a negative impact on classmates and on instructor planning for the class session.
IECP students must have a minimum of 85% attendance to maintain their student status. In Summer, IECP
students study 26 2/3 hours a week during the 10-week session. A full-time student cannot miss more than 15
classes (approximately 6 days) of class during the summer. Part-time summer students study 13 1/3 hours per
week and cannot miss more than 8 classes (approximately 5 days) of class.
You may choose how to use your absences, but you CANNOT exceed the maximum number of absences. If
you are not in class, you are absent. If you must miss class because of illness, childcare issues, a religious
observance, taking a standardized test or visits with family, you will be marked absent. It is the students
responsibility to contact instructors about missed work and assignments if a class is missed. An instructor's
individual policy about missed work and assignments is stated on the course syllabus. Students should NOT
expect an opportunity to complete assignments or assessments early in order to leave before the last day of
classes.
Students who have exceeded the maximum number of absences will be dropped from the IECP.
NOTE: If a student is dropped from the program, no tuition will be refunded.
Students should always know how many absences they have. The IECP office will send an email each week to
each student indicating the total number of absences and tardies. When full-time students reach 10 absences (5
absences for part-time students), they are placed on Attendance Warning status and they must meet with an
IECP administrator. Notification of their attendance warning status will be sent to their IECP instructors and to
their government sponsors.
All IECP classes will begin promptly. Arriving late or coming back late from breaks will be marked as a tardy
and will be included in a students attendance record (3 tardies will equal one absence). Instructors may also
mark excessive lateness as a full absence. Individual instructors definitions of excessive lateness will be on
their course syllabus. Students may be marked absent if they disrupt the class or otherwise demonstrate that they
are disconnected from the learning experience at the discretion of IECP instructors.
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You will receive 1 tardy for every 30 minutes you miss of class.
If you miss more than 1 hour of class, you will be marked absent. However, you should still come to
class to avoid missing classwork, homework, and other important information.
Students will also be marked tardy if they arrive late for the beginning of class or following our class
break. Once our class activities begin, if you are not there, you are late!
Academic Honesty
Many of the rules of academic honesty are the same around the world. However, some rules may be different.
Cheating is never allowed in the IECP.
Students cheat when they use other students work instead of their own. Using others work includes copying
another persons answers on a test, quiz, or homework assignment; using a part or all of another persons work
for your essay or presentation; or asking another person to do the work you have been assigned and then putting
your name on it.
Cheating in the U.S. can result in failing your courses or being dismissed from the university.
A special kind of cheating in academic writing is called plagiarism. This occurs when a student uses the words
or ideas of an author without acknowledging that author. Plagiarism is a very serious matter in American higher
education.
The IECP expects that all of its students will be academically honest. In any cases where students do cheat,
instructors and the Program Coordinator will take immediate and serious action. Students who cheat may be
placed on probation or be dismissed from the IECP.
Academic Success Plan
The goal of the Academic Success Plan is to support student success in the IECP. Students are expected to pass
all of their courses in the IECP, although sometimes students need additional time in a particular course. IECP
students can take any course in the program no more than twice. At the end of the semester, students who fail a
course will be placed on the Academic Success Plan. Also, students are expected to fulfill their IECP Student
Responsibilities. At any time during the semester, students who fail to meet their IECP Student Responsibilities
may be placed on Probation and the Academic Success Plan. Teachers may choose to repeal Probation if a
student successfully completes the course.
Students who are placed on the Academic Success Plan must meet with the Student Advisor and sign an
Academic Success Plan Contract. To be removed from the Academic Success Plan, students must meet the
conditions specified in their contracts. Students who do not meet the terms of their Academic Success Plan
Contract will not be allowed to enroll again in the IECP.
Students who are placed on the Academic Success Plan twice for the same reason in a different term will be
dismissed from the IECP. A student may appeal administrative decisions by submitting an Administrative
Decision Appeal Form for Students to the IECP Office in a timely manner. Students will be notified by email of
dismissal and must act quickly to contact DISSA (Directorate of International Student & Scholar Advising) to
make departure and/or transfer plans.