Completion of these ESL noncredit courses will provide students the cultural and linguistic proficiency to construct and communicate meaning with native speakers of English. This certificate program utilizes popular American culture films, music, social media and other thematic formats as the basis for developing listening and interactive conversational skills. This program emphasizes listening, pronunciation, speaking, grammatical, and vocabulary skills, essential for English language fluency, and creates a pathway from non-credit to credit ESL and mainstream college courses.