Our Summer Sessions schedule is coming together! Please visit it here to begin your planning for summer 2026. Summer 2026 applications open February 2 for UC students and February 17 for visiting students. Join us online or in person!
An applied linguist, Michelle (Winn) Baptiste has taught in College Writing Programs at UC Berkeley since 2002. She specializes in teaching diverse classes of developing writers. Her passion is supporting students to cultivate their own unique voices -- a repertoire of voices they can access as they write across genres. She enjoys including interviews and other hands-on research in her classes. In her own research to earn her MA in English as a Second Language from University of Hawai’i at Mānoa (UH Mānoa), she observed 64 US naturalization interviews and continues to be engaged in...
The College Writing Programs invites applications for a pool of qualified temporary instructors to teach ESL courses in the Summer English Language Studies (SELS) program. Application is currently closed.
The SELS office is open in-person from July to mid-August, Monday through Friday from 8:30am to 5:00pm. Feel free to stop by during open hours with questions, concerns, or company.
If you need assistance before the term starts, please contact us via...
We are quickly approaching the end of the SELS classes! If you are interested in receiving a certificate of completion for an ESL W3, 5, 6, 7, 8, or 9 course, please carefully read the instructions below.
Certificates will be printed with your preferred name and a gold UC Berkeley seal. These certificates confirm the successful completion of the ESL W3, 5, 6, 7, 8, or 9 courses.
CERTIFICATES OF COMPLETION ARE NOT OFFICIAL TRANSCRIPTS: Certificates will not have your course or instructor name(s) — this information will be on...
Open to all Summer English Language Studies students!
Ohlone Cafe founders Vincent Medina and Louis Trevino discuss their work to revive food traditions of the Ohlone tribe to honor their ancestors and to highlight the language, culture, and identity of Native Californians.
