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Not Your Average Language Classes! 

In this program, you will conference with a professor and bring your assignments from other classes to the Project ExCEL meeting. During ExCEL class time, we review your work before you hand it in to your professor. Project ExCEL can help at any point of an assignment: beginning, brainstorming, organizing ideas, editing or finishing your final draft. All of this while receiving college credits!

2 Project ExCEL Courses

We offer 2 courses to help students with their academic needs:

ESL 180C (4 credits)

• offered in the Fall semester only
• 1st-year bilingual college students welcome

This intensive course is designed to prepare students with the strategies to ExCEL in college and includes scheduled, weekly one-on-one conferences with your instructor.

What You Will Learn & Practice

• Academic Writing Strategies: strategies that will help you feel more confident in your First Year Writing and First Year Seminar courses.
• Academic Reading Strategies: strategies that will help you to read smarter not harder in your college classes. (Students often have to read scientific research, current event articles, etc.)
• Academic Listening Strategies: strategies that will help you be an active listener and take more effective notes during your lecture classes.
• Academic Speaking Strategies: strategies that will allow you to prepare and practice your class presentations.

ESL 150C (1 credit)

• offered every semester
• 2 sections each semester: 1 online and 1 in person
• bilingual students at any stage of college welcome

This course is designed as a weekly check-in with the Program Coordinator and a way to join ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ's bilingual student community. The course provides continual support until graduation, as students can take it during their freshman year, and continually enroll every semester. Keeping close connections with your ExCEL-lent bilingual community is an important key to staying in school and graduating!​

What to Expect at Weekly Meetings

Students will:

• eat together
• have assignments reviewed before submitting them to their professor
• get advice about classes on their schedule
• get reminders about important academic dates & deadlines
• study in small groups
• ask for academic advice
• learn more about services at ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ (academic and non-academic)​

Please Note: This course is open to all multilingual students on campus and past & present ExCEL students.

ESL 150C, 1 Credit 

ESL 150C-02

• Tuesdays, 7–8:30 pm
• Course Number: 11475
• Online, Synchronous

ESL 150C-01

• Wednesdays, 12:15–1:45 pm
• Course Number: 11474
• In Person, Classroom TBA

ESL 180C, 4 Credits 

ESL 180 is offered during the Fall semesters only.

• Mondays & Wednesdays, 8–9:50 am
• Course Number: 11476
• In Person, Classroom TBA

Who We Are

We keep in contact with multilingual ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ students. If there is anything we can help you with, we would love to hear about it. We are here to help with issues, whether in or out of the classroom. 

How to Contact Us

• Office Calls: 401-456-6348
• Texts: 401-764-4947
• Email: LFariaTancinco@ric.edu

How We Can Help

We can assist by:

• connecting you with academic guidance
• providing direction on academic work and strategies
• advocating for you
• guiding you to on and off campus resources
• facilitating a social and academic support network
• promoting peer to peer mentorship