Critical Conversations

Catalog description

Through sustained inquiry, students learn and practice reading, writing, and metacognitive strategies to promote the understanding of content and sentence constructions that reflect understanding. Reading instruction focuses on reading improvement skills including comprehension skills, reading rate, and vocabulary building make up the three major units of study. Writing instruction emphasizes strategies for thinking critically about a text and the grammar necessary to compose complex sentences. For enhancement courses, such as COL 121, a maximum of 12 credits towards a bachelor degree or six credits toward an associate degree are counted.