Student Learning Outcomes
In this course students will increase their proficiency in reading strategies, vocabulary acquisition and comprehension. Using academic and professional reading material, students will learn a set of reading techniques to help them become strategic readers and learners. Students will read increasingly longer, diverse, and more complex college-level and expository texts. They will learn to apply these reading strategies to concurrent and subsequent courses. Students will expand cultural knowledge related to Minnesota and the United States to understand context-based written materials. To maximize student learning, this course has been developed to be taken with ESOL 0910 and ESOL 0930. This course provides an equitable opportunity for non-native speakers of English to improve the skills necessary to succeed in college-level classes.
Student Learning Outcomes:
Student Learning Outcomes:
- Analyze textbook features for comprehension.
- Apply various notetaking methods.
- Utilize various context clues for determining word meaning.
- Identify topic, stated and implied main ideas, and major and minor details.
- Evaluate a variety of college-level texts.
- Determine purpose and tone in expository and narrative texts.
- Discriminate facts versus opinions.
- Demonstrate digital literacy appropriate for college level courses.
- Utilize cultural context clues needed to comprehend academic written materials.
- Demonstrate comprehension of college-level texts from various disciplines.
Prerequisites
Please see eServices for section availability and current pre-req/test score requirements for this course.