This website describes our language programs in detail.
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our course offerings, we would look forward
to hearing from you.
A 'close-to-the-customer' language institute located in the heart of Manhattan, just a 'stone's throw' from the Empire State Building,
the Universal English Center specializes in helping international students strengthen their English skills. UEC encourages prachcal language learning in an extremly supportive setting. Offering high-level, comprehensive instruction at a reasonable cost, UEC is well known in the New York City Asian community for its language training programs.
The Universal English Center's programs combine informal classes, intensive instruction, and the latest instructional technology to meet the objectives of its students.
Individualized elective courses and workshops are also offered to address particular requirements. Our program is relatively small, with all the advantages a small program offer - an open, and friendly ambiance and low student-to-faculty ratio.
Through lectures, seminars, tutorials, and excursions, UEC students receive a thorough orientation to New York City's cosmopolita resources - its cultural institutions its popular restaurants, its night-life. Students also learn about artistic and literary trends, the American higher education, system, and United States history.
Our 'fre conversation' advanced class, is especially popular. It enables foreign students to prachce spoken english in a lively, intellectual atmosphere.
Students seeking admission to institutions of higher learning receive academic advisement and assistance in the preparation of essays, correspondeace, and applications. UEC's TOEFL course is designed to prepare college-bound students for the Educational Testing Service's new 'internet-based' Test-of-English-as-a Foreign Language Examination,the 'IBT' and the City University of New York's 'admission test'
UEC-LI's faculty are broadly educated humanists whose language abilities are second-to-none. Many of our faculty are active members of several international scholarly organizations including the Modern Language Association (MLA), and the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA). Pending certification applications have been made to the consortium of University & College Intensive English Programs (UCIEP) and the American Association of Intensive English Programs (AAIEP).
