RDG 090Reading Skills I

Bunker Hill Community College · 3 credits · UGRD

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This course develops basic reading skills necessary for success with college-level material. The course will focus on improving comprehension and vocabulary. In particular, students will improve their ability to recognize and articulate main ideas, supporting details, and patterns of organization. Students will also improve vocabulary skills using context clues and the dictionary. Note: Students must meet exit-level requirements or pass a departmental reading final in order to earn a passing grade of C in this course.

Recent sections

Fall 2026 · 1 section

Sep 8 – Dec 18

Section	Days & time	Location	Instructor
01CClass #75750-RDG-090-01C	Tuesday, Thursday 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM D Building D217 (In Person)	D Building D217	Silverman, M
01C notes: Grammar and Justice - As we work collectively in this course toward gaining greater fluency in the language of academia, as we labor to improve our grammar, so to speak, attention in this course will be organized around a single but flexible theme: the relation between grammar and justice. By exploring this theme we will find ourselves asking some very basic but incredibly meaningful questions. For example, what exactly is grammar in the first place? How, in the context of the English language, did the rules and guidelines that govern the language first emerge? Who established these guidelines and why? Who polices grammar and how? Perhaps most importantly, are the rules, both written and unwritten, that govern the language fair, equitable, and socially just?