Academic English Language Communication (AELC)

This exciting, interactive course focuses on further developing and enhancing students’ English language communication skills critical to their scientific studies, research, and professional development. Providing expert guidance, feedback and support with the use of highly-relevant and stimulating materials throughout, students will gain the confidence and competence to clearly and sophisticatedly communicate in varied academic and professional contexts and for a range of different purposes. With small class sizes and students supported to practice and nurture their language skills in diverse-discipline international student groups, this course fully prepares students for the linguistic and communicative demands of scientific postgraduate level study and beyond.

Running in both the Fall and Spring semester, this semester-long course should be completed within a student's first year at KAUST and ideally during the first semester of a student’s arrival on campus.