College Resources to Build Your Skills in English Courses
LEARNING CENTER FREE TUTORING: Improve your essays with low commitment, high impact 30-minute sessions.
LEARNING CENTER FREE WORKSHOP: Explore writing-related topics in interactive, engaging hour-long workshops.
STUDENT SUCESS CENTER WRITING CLASSES
Go deep in these noncredit classes; come and go weekly as needed.
While tutoring and workshops offered through the Learning Center offer just-in-time
support, the classes at the Student Success Center support students in their ongoing
efforts to improve writing skills and/or reading comprehension.
The writing classes -- paragraph, essay, grammar, and reading comprehension classes
-- are available throughout the fall, winter, spring, and summer semesters.
Classes are offered on a continual or as-needed basis and are FREE.
To request more info about Student Success Classes contact Ivet Ovsepyan (iovsepya@glendale.edu). Let our professors support your learning in a small group environment. Take our
support classes and achieve!
GCC also offers noncredit course options for students who need a refresher/strengthener
prior to enrollment in credit English courses. For more information visit the Support for College Success webpage.
Do you speak another language besides English? Good for you! Being multilingual is an asset! We offer English 101 courses that are good for students
whose primary language is not English. These courses include strategies to improve
your reading and writing in English. Contact the English division chair for more
information about these courses which are offered in fall and spring fully online.
The Credit ESL division also offers ESL 159 which can help you edit and proofread
if English is not your first language and you want some additional support. Click here for more information about this course and other ESL courses that might help you in
your college journey.
If you do not have a U.S. high school diploma, and you are an international student
(F1 visa), or adult immigrant, or refugee, and you are still learning English, click
on the link to take the GCC ESL Guided Placement Survey to select the best level for you. We also recommend that you then speak with a counselor
to choose the best ESL course options.
Besides our academic resources, GCC has Academic Counselors ready to assist you in suggesting coursework, planning your education, and helping
to find the right academic goal for you. They can also point you to specific counseling
resources that may be available for you.
