EAP Classes

English for Art Purposes (EAP) classes are designed to help you with the language to get started in your art and design education as soon as possible. You’ll learn to express yourself clearly in critiques, understand lectures, improve your reading skills and vocabulary, and write papers for class assignments — all with the support and guidance of Academy of Art University’s ESL (English as a Second Language) faculty.

“Every time when [my teacher] revised our paper, he really read our paper carefully instead of writing a few comments. I was very moved, including his patience to tell us the problems we could not understand over and over again.”

EAP Curriculum

Our EAP curriculum is authored by our own faculty and tailored specifically for the language needed in students’ majors at the Academy. All EAP instructors have graduate degrees in language teaching and training on effective coaching/teaching techniques for building language fluency. They are specialists in the subject areas of your major.

UndergraduateGraduate
EAP A
Low Beginning
6 units / 15 hours per week
EAP 600A
Low Beginning
6 units / 15 hours per week
EAP 1
Beginning
6 units / 15 hours per week
EAP 601
Beginning
6 units / 15 hours per week
EAP 2
Low Intermediate
6 units / 9 hours per week
EAP 602
Low Intermediate
6 units / 9 hours per week
EAP 3
Intermediate
6 units / 9 hours per week
EAP 603
Intermediate
6 units / 9 hours per week
EAP 4
High Intermediate
6 units / 9 hours per week
EAP 604
High Intermediate
6 units / 9 hours per week
LA 103
Fundamentals of English
3 units / 3 hours per week
LA 106
Speaking and Listening for Artists
3 units / 6 hours per week
EAP 605W
Level 5 Writing
3 units / 6 hours per week
EAP 605S
Level 5 Speaking
3 units / 6 hours per week
LA 107
Writing for the Multilingual Artist
3 units / 3 hours per week
LA 207
Persuation and Argument for the Multilingual Writer
3 units / 3 hours per week

Sample Curriculum

Take a look at a sample of our EAP 3 class curriculum. In this intermediate-level English class, we focus on clear and descriptive written and spoken communication, art and design vocabulary, and language skills that are necessary for artists and designers.

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