Intensive English Program
Curriculum
Duration
This program requires one or two semesters depending on the students’ endeavor. A student is allowed to register in this program for a maximum of 2 semesters and one summer (if offered).
Location
This program is offered in Beirut and Byblos.
Program Overview
If you are a current Lebanese American University (LAU) student, you can take classes with us. During the academic year, September to May, participation in intensive classes is strictly limited to matriculated LAU students to align their English language proficiency to university standards.
Our Intensive English Program emphasizes doing rather than knowing, so that students enhance their speaking, listening, reading, and writing in ways that are immediately useful to university life and real-world setting.
Mission
The Intensive English Program (IEP) mission is to prepare matriculated students for undergraduate university courses by educating them in the fundamentals of English as an academic language through various modules in listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. Additionally, the IEP introduces students to university clubs, facilities, and on-campus activities, ensuring they are well-integrated into the university community and fully prepared for their academic journey.
Objectives
During the semester in the intensive program, our students analyze different texts for main ideas, take notes from listening to lectures, write well-organized texts, engage in speaking exercises and give oral presentations.
Outcomes
When our students finish their semester in the intensive program, they will be able to follow their regular university courses equipped with the necessary skills from writing well organized texts, to properly communicating with their peers and professors in the target language. Also, our students will be well integrated in their regular university programs because they will able to take proper notes, and read and analyze their lectures, textbooks or any material.
Contact us
- Dany Badran , Chair of The English and Creative Arts Department
- dany.badran@lau.edu.lb
- Office extension 1421
- Amy Youssef, Coordinator of the Intensive English Program
- amelia.yusuf@lau.edu.lb
- Office extension 1634