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Project Excel Office

Welcome to our multilingual community at Rhode Island College! The Project Excel Office supports multilingual students and language learners academically.

What We Do

Project ExCEL supports multilingual students at RIC by providing academic and non-academic support. Our Project ExCEL courses aid multilingual students and language learners academically.

Contact Information

lfariatancinco@ric.edu
401-764-4947
Roberts Hall (Suite 303)

Director

Laura Faria-Tancinco
Coordinator of Project ExCEL
Professional Studies and Continuing Education

Andrea Bayona
Admissions Officer for Project ExCEL

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Program Details

In this program, you will conference with a professor and bring your assignments from other classes to the Project ExCEL meeting. During ExCEL class time, we review your work before you hand it in to your professor. Project ExCEL can help at any point of an assignment: beginning, brainstorming, organizing ideas, editing or finishing your final draft. All of this while receiving college credits!

View the Fall 2024 Project ExCEL Course Schedule

Understand the 2 Project ExCEL Courses

We offer 2 courses to help students with their academic needs:

ESL 180C (4 credits)

offered in the Fall semester only
1st-year bilingual college students welcome

This intensive course is designed to prepare students with the strategies to ExCEL in college and includes scheduled, weekly one-on-one conferences with your instructor.

What You Will Learn & Practice

Academic Writing Strategies: strategies that will help you feel more confident in your First Year Writing and First Year Seminar courses.
Academic Reading Strategies: strategies that will help you to read smarter not harder in your college classes. (Students often have to read scientific research, current event articles, etc.)
Academic Listening Strategies: strategies that will help you be an active listener and take more effective notes during your lecture classes.
Academic Speaking Strategies: strategies that will allow you to prepare and practice your class presentations.

ESL 150C (1 credit)

offered every semester
2 sections each semester: 1 online and 1 in person
bilingual students at any stage of college welcome

This course is designed as a weekly check-in with the Program Coordinator and a way to join RIC's bilingual student community. The course provides continual support until graduation, as students can take it during their freshman year, and continually enroll every semester. Keeping close connections with your ExCEL-lent bilingual community is an important key to staying in school and graduating!

What to Expect at Weekly Meetings

Students will:

eat together
have assignments reviewed before submitting them to their professor
get advice about classes on their schedule
get reminders about important academic dates & deadlines
study in small groups
ask for academic advice
learn more about services at RIC (academic and non-academic)

Please Note: This course is open to all multilingual students on campus and past & present ExCEL students.

Fall 2024 Project ExCEL Course Schedule

ESL 150C, 1 Credit

ESL 150C-02: Tuesdays, 7–8:30 pm; Course Number: 11475; Course Type: online, synchronous
ESL 150C-01: Wednesdays, 12:15–1:45 pm; Course Number: 11474; Course Type: in person, room TBA

ESL 180C, 4 Credits

ESL 180C: Mondays & Wednesdays, 8–9:50 am; Course Number: 11476; Course Type: in person, room TBA

Please Note: This course is offered during fall semesters only.

More Information on Our Staff

Project ExCEL Coordinator, Laura Faria-Tancinco, with students

Who We Are

We keep in contact with multilingual RIC students. If there is anything we can help you with, we would love to hear about it. We are here to help with issues, whether in or out of the classroom.