ACADEMIC PREPARATORY PROGRAM

The American University of Armenia offers the Academic Preparatory Program, which includes the Intensive English Program and the Intensive Computer Program.

The goal of this program is to raise students’ English language and computer literacy to the level required for graduate academic studies.

The Intensive English Program

The University offers the Intensive English Program (IEP) to provide applicants with a six-month English language course designed to raise their proficiency to the level required for academic studies. The Program consists of courses in English for General Academic Purposes, a Writing and Speaking course, and an English for Specific Purposes course.

The courses are designed to improve the students' oral communication skills, reading and writing skills, and their study skills. Applicants who achieve less than a 570 TOEFL score (or less than a 230 CBT TOEFL score), and who have met all other General and Program Specific Requirements, may be admitted to the Intensive English Program on a competitive basis. Those with an ITOEFL/TOEFL score of 570 or higher but whose English writing skills are judged to be deficient, will be required to enroll in the Writing Component of the IEP.

INTENSIVE COMPUTER PROGRAM (ICP)

All degree and certificate programs at AUA require a good knowledge of a variety of application software programs. The University, therefore, offers the Intensive Computer Program (ICP) to provide applicants with computer software training designed to raise their proficiency to an appropriate level.

The courses should improve students’ working skills in: MS Windows 2000, LAN, MS Office 2000 components, E-mail, the Internet, as well as familiarity with applications for specific departmental needs (MS Project, SPSS, Stata, Matlab, Web design, Visual Basic, etc).

Applicants with computer skills and knowledge meeting these requirements might be exempt from the ICP based on exemption test results. Those who do not take or fail to pass the exemption tests must enroll in the appropriate parts of the ICP.

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