This is the first of two courses designed to allow students to improve their reading proficiency to the level needed to successfully manage college textbooks. Students will work to improve basic comprehension, critical thinking, and word attack skills as well as develop vocabulary and increase reading rate.
Students in this course will continue to improve reading, vocabulary, comprehension skills, and critical thinking skills. Students will increase reading fluency and use magazine and newspaper articles as well as textbooks for reading passages. Pre-requisite: Successful completion of SC:022D or equivalent.
Students are introduced to reading and study strategies and learn to apply them to content area textbooks, lectures, and testing situations. Skills taught include goal setting, time management, memory, and concentration, note taking, highlighting, test taking and test preparation. Students are also exposed to strategies for extracting meaning from textbook material. Pre-requisite: Successful completion of SC:023D or equivalent.
Students will read and comprehend increasingly difficult texts in a variety of genres; to think more deeply and critically about the issues and ideas presented in these texts; and to respond to those texts in writing with increasing fluency, confidence, and clarity.
Students will develop their critical thinking skills, reading comprehension, and writing proficiency for inquiry, learning, thinking, and communication. Students will read, discuss and respond to a variety of intellectually stimulating texts of different genres. Students therefore, will have experience analyzing written texts and writing for different audiences and varying purposes. Students will work individually as well as collaboratively in the producing, revising and editing of written work. Central to the objective of this course is the development in understanding of and implementing the writing process: generating ideas, producing multiple drafts, revising and editing.
This course is designed to help students learn or review the basic skills of mathematics. The course includes skill development in whole numbers, fractions, decimals, percents, and measurement. Critical thinking, problem solving, and conceptual development are emphasized.
Students review basic arithmetic and are introduced to fundamental algebraic concepts. This course is appropriate for students who understand basic mathematics but are not yet ready for algebra. Skills taught include whole number, rational number, and integer operations; algebraic expressions; linear equations; formulas; rectangular coordinate systems; square roots; geometric properties; and ratio, proportion, and percent. Pre-requisite SC:034D or equivalent.
Students develop basic algebra skills. Topics include introduction to algebra and problem solving, real numbers, solving linear equations, polynomials, factoring, rational expressions and equations, graphing, systems of equations, radicals, and quadratic equations. Classroom, individualized, and peer-teaching opportunities are provided. Pre-requisite: SC:035D or equivalent.
Pre-Tech Biology is a one-semester study of living organisms. Lecture topics include the chemical basis of life, cell structure and function, energy, genetics, and animal classification. The second half of the course focuses on medically significant organisms. This course gives students a foundation in biology on which to build a specific health science curriculum.
This is the first of two courses designed for non-native speakers of English to acquire basic aural and oral skills. The primary focus of the course is to prepare students for academic content. Students will be involved in a variety of communicative activities to increase their confidence in understanding and communicating with others, to improve fluency as well as accuracy, to expand vocabulary, to practice note-taking skills, and to learn about American culture.
This is a course in continuing the acquisition of aural and oral skills in English for non-native speakers. The course is designed to help students develop listening and speaking skills that will be needed to be successful in fully transferable college courses. Skills taught include listening strategies, note taking, oral presentations, and vocabulary development. Students will also develop a deeper understanding of American culture through various activities.
This is the first of two courses designed for non-native speakers of English to acquire basic reading skills. The course introduces students to effective reading strategies, approaches to reading in a variety of genres, strategies to expand vocabulary, and basic library research. Students are also encouraged to improve their reading fluency through extensive reading.
This is a course in continuing the acquisition of reading skills in English for non-native speakers. The primary goal of the course is to prepare students to become independent readers and to manage academic texts. Students are given opportunities to apply reading strategies effectively, to improve comprehension skills, to expand vocabulary, and to develop library research skills needed for academic study.
This is the first of two courses designed for non-native speakers of English in the acquisition of basic grammatical structures of English and writing skills. The primary focus of the course is to develop students’ competence and confidence in writing for academic purposes. Students will review basic grammatical rules and structures, understand the elements of paragraph through process writing, practice writing for different purposes, expand vocabulary, and develop fluency in writing.
This is a course for non-native speakers of English in the acquisition of advanced grammatical structures and writing skills (necessary for academic English). The course is especially designed to develop advanced writing skills that will be needed in order to successfully complete transferable academic classes. Students will review problems in English grammar, analyze academic writing, practice writing for different purposes, and be introduced to different documentation styles.
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