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The Office of International Programs provides services for international students, including initial and on-going orientation. All international students are encouraged to become assimilated into the Heidelberg College and Tiffin community environment. Whenever possible, new international students will have a roommate of a nationality other than their own. The Heidelberg English Language Institute (HELI), an important part of the International Programs, offers intensive English as a Second Language and cultural orientation to students whose native language is not English, but who wish to attend an American college or university.
The HELI Conversation Partner Program enhances students' opportunities for those whose first language is not English to improve their communication skills, their understanding of the American culture and their ability to imingle with their American peers.
Heidelberg College requires that international students and students whose first language is not English have sufficient knowledge of the English language to benefit from their academic studies. Therefore, all new students must either take a Heidelberg institutional TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) when they arrive on campus or furnish an official E.T.S. International TOEFL score form, within one year of the date of application to the College.
Students may also be required to submit to other forms of evaluation, such as a written essay and/or oral interview. Based on the results of these evaluations, the students are placed in one of three programs best suited to their language-skill level. (1) Students whose test scores and other skill evaluations indicated a need for further training in English are placed in an all-HELI intensive English program: 20 to 25 hours a week of course work including class sessions and laboratories. (2) Students who show a high level of English proficiency in some skill areas, but who still need to develop in others, are placed in a transition program. In this program, students are permitted to take one or more academic classes while continuing to improve their English skills in HELI classes. (3) Those students whose TOEFL scores and language-skill evaluations show an acceptable level of language fluency in all skill areas are eligible for a full-time academic program.
All HELI classes appear on the regular academic schedule. HELI course descriptions appear under the heading "English Language Institute" in the Courses of Study section of the Heidelberg catalog. Either a passing oral evaluation or successful completion of ELI 132 and the HELI oral evaluation are prerequisites for CTA 100. Either a passing TOEFL essay evaluation or successful completion of ELI 142 and the HELI TOEFL essay evaluation are prerequisites for ENG 101. Only credits earned for the 100-level courses are applicable toward a bachelor's degree at Heidelberg College.
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