3.00 Credits
This course addresses the following reading skills, including understanding vocabulary in context, recognizing main ideas, detecting supporting details, identifying the main idea or central point, using transitions and development patterns for reading comprehension, distinguishing between facts and opinions, making logical inferences, recognizing the author’s purpose and tone, understanding the components of an argument and increasing comprehension using active reading strategies and visual aids. This course requires a substantial amount of reading to accomplish this objective. F,S,Su