A one-year University of Exeter program designed for foreign students of English is divided into two major components. The language component includes classes in reading and listening comprehension, essay writing, etymology, dialectology, semantics, and sociolinguistics. Four areas of language study that are typically challenging to foreign students and are provided for in the selection of texts are sociocultural convention and vocabulary, register, humor, and accent. The literature component has three principal emphases: sixteenth-century, nineteenth-century, and twentieth-century literature. The foreign students have lectures with university honors students but attend additional tutorials. The program is complemented by a series of talks on aspects of British life and culture by speakers from within and outside the university, and trips to places of historical interest are taken frequently. The examinations conform to university regulations and are generally traditional, but alternative means of assessment more appropriate for the foreign student group are used when feasible. Students not interested in the literature component can substitute other university courses, and equivalence examinations are given. The program is limited to 16-20 students a year, entry is competitive, and the syllabus is flexible. Teaching methods are a combination of traditional and contemporary approaches. (MSE)