This course focuses on providing students with powerful success strategies and tools for college completion (More) (Expand All)

This course focuses on providing students with powerful success strategies and tools for college completion and career success. These skills include applying reading and learning strategies, using time management techniques, determining and setting goals, employing effective study-reading strategies, utilizing listening and note-taking skills, preparing for and taking tests, using memory techniques, and developing their information literacy. Students will learn and apply scientifically grounded and practical tips and tools to build emotional intelligence, identify learning preferences, and apply brain-compatible study habits. When course materials are not compatible with a person’s disability, the instructor will develop an Equally Effective Alternate Access Plan (EEAAP). .
Transfer Credit: CSU; UC (Less)

This course incorporates reading and study skills customized to a student’s particular field such as (More)

This course incorporates reading and study skills customized to a student’s particular field such as Nursing, Social Science, Cosmetology, etc. The course is designed to give students the skills and abilities needed to read and analyze the complex informational text found typically in Social Studies, Sciences, and Medical and Health fields, etc. Because the type of reading differs as the material being read changes, different skills are required. Content area reading skills are explicitly taught, modeled, and practiced, using the student’s own textbooks from courses in their major content areas. Attention is given to building vocabulary in content areas, including use of Latin and Greek roots, affixes and contextual clues and, most importantly, word lists specific to the student’s major areas of study, e.g. terminology for various fields as medicine and health, physical and biological sciences, history, political science, psychology, etc... Students will read actual scientific papers, historical documents, etc.... while learning comprehension strategies that help them make sense of content-area texts. Students will also examine and appreciate the diversity of the people and cultures that have contributed to developments in the student's area of study. Digital literacy is covered as well, incorporating the critical thinking skills necessary to locate and evaluate online sources of information for five criteria. When course materials are not compatible with a person’s disability, the Instructor will develop an Equally Effective Alternate Access Plan (EEAAP).
Transfer credit: CSU (Less)

This course focuses on the development and application of reading skills in the interpretation, analysis, (More)

This course focuses on the development and application of reading skills in the interpretation, analysis, criticism, and advocacy of ideas encountered in academic readings across the curriculum and Internet media sources. When course materials are not compatible with a person's disability, the instructor will develop an Equally Effective Alternate Access Plan (EEAAP).
Transfer Credit: CSU;UC (Less)