Susan Finlay, Program Coordinator office: 1062 at the Language Center phone: #1650 email: susanf@squ.edu.om The Engineering program at the Language Center offers two credit courses to Engineering majors; namely, LANC 2160 and LANC 2161, to assist them with the English skills they currently need, as well as to help prepare them for the language skills necessary for the remainder of their course work at SQU.  Intake in the Engineering (credit) program is generally around 260 students a semester, most of whom have completed the aforementioned Intensive Program for the first one or two semesters. Our Credit Program aims at providing the students with a solid foundation of English, necessary for their progress throughout their university lives and on into their working careers. The materials and courses are designed to be challenging and interesting, involving such skills as writing technical reports as well as giving presentations and taking part in class discussions. We are trying to respond directly to the high profile that Engineering has in Oman, by equipping the students with the relevant language skills that they will require to serve the community. Our program is divided into two courses, each designed to accompany and complement the other non-language courses that the students major in. LANC 2160 prepares students for the intensive reading and writing of longer technical texts. General, academic and sub-technical vocabulary, note taking, as well as more advanced reading and writing skills, are practised. Students also work in groups to research a topic and present it to the class. Moodle is introduced to the students in this course. LANC 2161 builds on to the previous course, further developing and encouraging the study of language-related skills. A focus of students' classwork is how to successfully write a laboratory report (and other academic writing), including learning the necessary vocabulary to do so. Also addressed are speaking and listening skills (e.g., taking part in discussions, giving presentations, watching DVD excerpts) and reading comprehension skills. Regarding the latter, students are exposed to a variety of engineering-related articles and texts, accessed via Moodle.