Critical Reading and Listening

Catalog description

This course is designed to improve upon students’ academic reading and listening skills while concurrently developing their higher-order critical thinking skills. Students will work with authentic texts on a variety of subject matters, taken from academic journals, professional and general-interest magazines, opinion columns, and websites, as well as academic lectures and talks, panel discussions, and news reports. Working with these texts, they will utilize skills that are fundamental to developing critical awareness. Through various structured activities, students will also build their academic vocabulary, as well as their comprehension of concepts in key academic disciplines.