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  American Language and Culture Program

  Program Manager: Catherine Franklin
  Office: Reno Hall, Room 016
  McNichols Campus
  Phone: (313) 993-3320
  Fax: (313) 993-1192
  Email: franklca1@udmercy.edu

  Through assessment, placement, and instruction, the American Language and Culture Program equips students with language skills and cultural understanding necessary for them to meet their educational and professional goals in an American university setting. This pathway program collaborates with University partners, providing English language evaluation, consultation and intercultural exchange to foster a diverse international community.

  Assessment

  Assessment of language skills is made during the week prior to the first official class day.

  Placement

  After assessment testing, students are placed in one of the following courses of study:

  • Intensive English - 21 hours of instruction per week.
  • Intermediate English - 3-9 hours of instruction per week.
  • Academic Writing and Culture Seminar - 3 hours of instruction per week.
  • Full-time degree-directed study - not taking classes with ALCP.

  Instruction

  Regular 91福利社 students are provided instruction on the McNichols Campus. The regular University academic calendar has three 15-week terms (Fall, Winter and Summer) beginning the last week of August, the first week of January and May.

  Course Offerings

  • ALCP 1010 - Intensive English (0 credits)

  This intensive full-time English course is designed to provide students with a strong foundation across all subject areas and to prepare students for ALCP’s intermediate and advanced English classes. Class hours are divided among seven subjects: Reading, Writing, Listening/Speaking, Pronunciation, Grammar, Vocabulary, and Computer Assisted Language Learning (lab). Academic and American culture instruction is included in each class. This intensive level course is considered full time. International students enrolled in this course may not concurrently enroll in academic classes.

  • ALCP 2011, 2012, 2013 - Intermediate English (0-1 credits per module)

  An intermediate-level course with three modules that emphasize reading (2011), listening/speaking (2012), and writing (2013). 3, 6, or 9 hours per week.

  Intermediate Reading (2011): This class is designed to prepare students for reading textbooks and other academic materials at the University and expose students to a variety of authentic academic texts across multiple reading genres.

  Intermediate Listening and Speaking (2012): This class is designed to prepare students to understand and participate in listening and speaking tasks, including lectures, group work and discussions, conversations, presentations, and to prepare students to communicate with English speakers in an academic setting.

  Intermediate Writing (2013): This class is designed to prepare students to complete academic writing tasks, including writing essays, proofreading, editing, and incorporating sources, and will also include practice with strategies to avoid plagiarism.

  • ALCP 3150 - Academic Writing and Culture Seminar (0-1 credits)

  This class is designed to prepare students to complete advanced academic writing tasks, including writing essays and research papers, proofreading, editing, and incorporating sources, and will also include practice with strategies to avoid plagiarism.

  Note: Undergraduate students can receive three credits for ALCP 2011, 2012, 2013 and receive one credit for ALCP 3150. These credits can be counted toward elective credit in an undergraduate degree program. Students receive a letter grade on their transcripts. Points for the grade are factored into the grade-point averages of undergraduate students.

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  Black Abolitionist Archive

  Director: Roy E. Finkenbine, Ph.D.
  Office: Briggs Building, Room 318
  McNichols Campus
  Phone: 313-993-1016
  Email: finkenre@udmercy.edu

  The Black Abolitionist Archive is a historical research center devoted to the study of African Americans involved in the transatlantic struggle against slavery—America's "first civil rights movement." The collection housed in the archives contains a wealth of materials that document the lives of some 300 black abolitionists, including some 14,000 documents, an extensive microfilm library, a clippings file, and a library of scholarly books, articles and dissertations. James O. Horton, Ph.D., of the Smithsonian Institution's Afro-American Communities Project has called it "the most extensive primary source collection on antebellum black activism."

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  Carney Latin American Solidarity Archive

  Director: Gail Presbey, Ph.D.
  Office: Briggs Building 314
  McNichols Campus
  Phone: 31-993-1124
  Email: presbegm@udmercy.edu

  The James Guadalupe Carney Latin American Solidarity Archive's purpose is to serve students, scholars and community members as a depository for materials on Latin American human rights and solidarity work. It offers students and scholars a place to conduct primary research on Latin American solidarity work, human rights and liberation theology through courses, programs and research materials. The archives, staffed by a director, students and volunteers is a community institute offering resource and referral information regarding local community and national groups that work on human rights issues in the United States and Latin America.

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  Catholic Studies

  The Arthur McGovern, S.J., Catholic Studies Certificate Program

  The Catholic Studies Program, recognizing the richness, depth and breadth of the Catholic tradition, seeks to help students understand the Catholic vision, its contribution to various fields of study, and its influence on contemporary life. The course of studies aims at developing a thoughtful appreciation of the living tradition of the Catholic faith in dialogue with social and personal experience. Students will earn a Certificate in Catholic Studies.

  The program is guided by the principle that faith should inform life in the real world and awaken a responsibility to seek social justice. The certificate program requires the completion of 18 credit hours in courses from several disciplines that address six content areas:

  • Traditions of Catholic Spirituality and Theology
  • Christian Social Justice Traditions
  • The Catholic Imagination and the Diversity of Its Expression
  • Christian Perspectives on the Human Person and on Human Development
  • Church History as It Informs Today's Church and Society
  • The Meaning and Importance of Vatican Council II

  Core Courses (9 credits)

  • CAS 1000 Catholic Studies and the Self (1 credit)
  • CAS 2000 Catholicism: Spirit & Methods (3 credits)
  • CAS 3000 Catholic Church History: Crystallizing Moments (3 credits)
  • CAS 4000 Senior Seminar (2 credits)

  Electives (9 credits)

  The other nine hours of the program are drawn from courses throughout the University that meet at least one of the following criteria:

  • Are taught from a Catholic perspective;
  • Have a Catholic content or a content consistent with Catholic theology, spirituality, or social thought;
  • Cover a topic in which there is considerable Catholic contribution;
  • Are interdisciplinary with a Catholic component;
  • Raise issues that impinge on religious faith;
  • Deal with topics and issues that have a variety of competing understandings and interpretations, one or more of which are consistent with a Catholic perspective;
  • Have a content that could be augmented by reading and reflection to develop a Catholic content or perspective;
  • Put into practice a Catholic vision, involving spirituality and a concern for social justice;
  • Put into practice a professional skill with a dimension that includes a Catholic vision, involving spirituality and a concern for social justice; and
  • Develop a Catholic imagination

  A Sampling of Courses that May Be Taken for Catholic Studies Credit:

  • ARCH 2120 Architectural History and Theory I (3 credits)
  • BUS 3110 Organizational Design and Structure (3 credits)
  • BUS 3190 Ethics, Business Leadership, and Social Responsibility (3 credits)
  • CHM 4740 Recent Advances in Biochemistry (3 credits)
  • CST 3040 Small Group Communication (3 credits)
  • ENL 2350 Study of Fiction (3 credits)
  • ENL 2450 Study of Poetry (3 credits)
  • ENL 2650 Study of Drama (3 credits)
  • ETH 3680 Catholic Health Care Ethics (3 credits)
  • HIS 2000 The Ancient Mediterranean World (3 credits)
  • HIS 2100 Medieval Europe (3 credits)
  • HIS 2200 Early Modern Europe (3 credits)
  • PHL 2020 Person and Society (3 credits)
  • PHL 3020 Philosophy of Religion (3 credits)
  • PHL 3030 Philosophy of God (3 credits)
  • PHL 3040 Aquinas: First University Masterpieces (3 credits)