TIP: Training for International Professionals
TIP: Training for International Professionals is designed to provide overseas professionals or those with a strong interest in career development with a short-term opportunity to improve their English skills for the professional workplace.
Length: 2 weeks to 6 months, depending on your needs
Who’s eligible: This program is offered to groups, who will discuss themes/concepts in their field while improving their English communication skills.
How to apply: Send a proposal to Dr. Sam Song, hsong6@naz.edu, describing your desired goal, program length, participants, and timing, at least six months before you want to start.
After successfully completing the program, participants receive a Nazareth College English Language Institute Certificate of Completion.
Programs Available
Upon request, the following programs can be specifically designed and offered to the needs of our clients:
- Business English
- Technical Writing
- Oral Communication
- English Vocabulary
- Accent Reduction
- Presentation Skills
- Legal English
- Legal reading and writing
- Listening and speaking skills
- An introduction to U.S. law, legal procedures, and legal terminology
- Health English
- Health reading and writing
- Health Listening and speaking skills
- An introduction to U.S. healthcare system and healthcare terminology
- Art English
- Art appreciation/vocabulary
- Art reading and writing skills
- Art presentation/exhibition skills
- Technology English
- Technology literacy
- Technology terminology
- Education English
- Classroom English
- Reading journals for English audience
- Writing research papers for Journals
Program Schedule
Though it is run throughout the year, this program is offered on a cohort basis. Once the need is expressed in writing to the Director of ELI, we can deliver the training at the desired time for our clients varying from 2 weeks to 6 months depending upon the needs and levels of English proficiency of the trainees.
Client Commitments
In order to start planning a special professional English training course, our clients are required to make the following commitments:
- Make earnest investment of 10% of the total program cost once the interest is expressed in writing
- Provide a list of purpose and goals for the training
- Ensure the enrollment of no less than 10 as a cohort
- Make full payment at the beginning of the program
Program Cost
On a cohort of 15 basis, the program is operated at a weekly cost of $1500/participant which includes the following items:
- tuition: four hours of training for five days a week
- room and board including 3 meals a day for five days
- cultural excursion activities
- local transportation inside the Greater Rochester area, including the airport pickup
Note: the cost doesn't include any personal merchandise or outside the program transportation.