This course is designed for students aiming to improve their reading skills, strengthen their academic strategies and achieve greater success in college. The curriculum emphasizes the development of core reading skills, such as word analysis, vocabulary acquisition, information literacy, and reading strategies necessary for comprehension at both literal and interpretive levels. Completion of this course satisfies the reading proficiency requirement.
Prerequisites
None
1. Demonstrate the ability to comprehend, summarize, and synthesize a variety of college-level texts through active reading strategies.
2. Demonstrate awareness of a writer's audience, purpose, agenda, and rhetorical strategies.
3. Distinguish main points, supporting arguments, evidence, and details within a text.
4. Access and navigate the ENG 090 course within the learning management system (Brightspace).
5. Exhibit effective communication skills in both written and verbal formats.
6. Communicate effectively with the instructor and classmates via email.
7. Apply critical and analytical reading strategies to assigned texts.
8. Utilize appropriate reading strategies when engaging with literary texts.
9. Determine the meaning of unfamiliar words encountered in texts or assessments using contextual clues.