• Prerequisite(s); Department Approval
• For international students whose native language is other than English
• Using the English language, emphasizes developmental activities in
  
  • finding stated main ideas and details,
    
  • understanding inferred main ideas,
    
  • skimming,
    
  • scanning,
    
  • recognizing patterns of organization and author’s purpose,
    
  • interpreting literature, and
    
  • using advanced level vocabulary
• Includes
  
  • lectures, group discussions,
    
  • lab activities, and
    
  • multimedia
• Satisfies AAS Humanities requirements Course Objectives

This course helps students

• identify the main idea of an academic text
• differentiate between major and minor supporting details,
• restate/paraphrase academic theses in their own words,
• evaluate texts critically to determine academic appropriateness,
• evaluate text critically to determine the strengths and weaknesses of an author’s argument,
• recognize some very common informal logical fallacies,
• combine informed personal opinion with academic texts,
• understand and make both simple and complex inferences,
• determine and maintain appropriate reading speed for varying texts,
• expand vocabulary through contextual clues,
• use skimming and scanning skills, and
• maintain an average 80% basic comprehension level of academic and other texts.