PreMed Analytical Reading Part C

Catalog description

Analytical reading is a course designed to develop students analytical reading skills. Students will read expository essays, analyze literary texts to hone in reading skills and do MCAT passages. Although dental students take DAT rather than MCAT, experience has demonstrated that dental students do well on the DAT passages, which are less demanding in analytical skills and focus more on information, because they improve, through MCAT passages, their analytical and thinking skills. In this course, students will also learn to infer meaning of texts. They will analyze short literary texts, this course will focus primarily on helping students better understand what they read through recognizing and interpreting an author's main ideas. Furthermore, it will help them to understand how an author uses supporting details, tone, purpose, and point of view to influence the reader. This course will also offer students practice in reading and understanding texts, because verbal reasoning is a skill that is not acquired through lectures, they are expected to practice daily.