Level 4A Speech Assignment
As I promised, this is the post where you can ask questions about the speech assignment for Monday. Remember, choose one topic and write your speech. Include all of the parts we have talked about in class.
Michelle
Weather Closings
Sometimes Houston has storms or flooding. UHD may close due to severe weather. An announcement is made on the radio, on television (Channels 2, 11 and 13) and on the UHD website. Do not assume that UHD is closed unless you hear or read one of these announcements. Only if the school closes is your absence counted.
Student Attendance Policy
Students are required to come to class on a regular basis. You may not be absent more than 5 hours from any one class or 20 hours from all classes in any one six-and-a-half week session. Chronic absence of F-1 students is reportable to Immigration.
Students who are absent are required to make up any work missed. Students who are absent for an instructor’s test or who had work to turn in will be governed by that instructor’s make-up policies as stated in the instructor’s syllabus.
More Halloween Pictures
Here’s Levels 5 and 7. I hope to have some of Level 3 tomorrow.
Halloween Party
Here’s a few pictures from yesterday. Enjoy!
University Credit
ELI graduates who take at least 12 hours successfully at UHD will receive an additional 3 hours of elective credit in American Studies. A student planning to use this credit should not take American Studies as an academic course elective. Contact ELI for a letter.
Recommendation
Graduates from the ELI’s Level 7 may attend credit classes at UHD without a TOEFL score if recommended by ELI. (Residents and citizens have no TOEFL requirement, so do not need recommendation.) Eligible students submit a Recommendation Application at the end of the fourth week of the session and take the Exit exam in the sixth week of classes. The test results, along with successful graduation from Level 7, determine your readiness to begin academic work at an American university. You must take the ELI Exit test while you are enrolled in Level 7. It is not available to and ELI graduate sometime after graduation.
Graduation
A small graduation ceremony is held each session for students who have successfully completed Level 7. Students must achieve a passing grade in all four Level 7 classes to graduate (no IP or NP grades).
ELI Scholarship in Excellence
ELI honors one student each university semester with the ELI Scholarship in Excellence. This $200.00 reduction in tuition is awarded to the student who writes the best essay. All students on the Honors List the previous session may complete for this scholarship.
Academic Recognition
Class grades are used to determine your scholastic average. Students with three P+ and one P grades are placed on the Honors List, and students with 4 P+ grades are listed in the Special Honors section of the Honors List.
