Students:
- These classes immerse students in rich and engaging readings, visuals, videos, fieldwork, and discussions.
- Many courses have multiple levels to meet student target goals, backgrounds, and proficiency.
- Courses are open to learners at any level:
- native, multilingual, and non-native speaking students;
- visiting international and U.S. resident students as well as current Cal students.
Content:
Courses provide the opportunity to improve and refine language and communication skills as well as broaden your knowledge of how environments can be transformed through planning, policy, art, design, and social action.
Topics covered include
- Basic design principles and theory
- Artistic techniques
- Connections among form, function, and structure
Skills:
- Critical interpretation, analyses, synthesis, and evaluation
- Public Speaking and critique
- Written communication
- Discipline-specific vocabulary development
- Active listening
- Close reading
- Note-taking
Courses:
In-person
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CW 22M: Intensive English Practice: Art and Design (2 Units)
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CW 31C: American Language and Culture: The Berkeley Experience (1 Unit)
- CW 42K: Writing for Digital Media (2 units)
Online*
- CW 42K: Writing for Digital Media (2 units)
- CW 52E: AI, Culture, and Controversies (2 units)
- CW 52L: English for Architecture and Urban Design (2 units – coming March 1)
Coming Soon
- Intensive English Practice: English for Architecture
Not offered in 2026
- CW 33H: Language, Culture, and Sustainability (3 Units)
- CW 33M: Language, Culture, and Public Spaces (3 Units)
- CW 33N: Language, Culture, and Makerspace Creativity (3 Units)
- CW 51E: American Language and Culture: Community Building and Transformation (1 Unit)