Written English Skills: Reading the Region

Catalog description

Students in this course join a community of readers on campus and develop reading skills in meaningful ways by reading local/regional authors. Academic reading skills are the focus, including summarizing, paraphrasing, skimming, scanning, making inferences, and distinguishing between different purposes for reading. Students develop their ability to critically read academic and other texts. Repeatable for credit - maximum eight. Prerequisite: non-native speakers of English and appropriate score on ESL placement test and/or successful completion of ESL 101 . (Transcript credit only. Does not count toward graduation. Performance at the C-level is required for a grade of pass.) Pass/Fail grading. Offered Fall, Spring, Summer.