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ENG-R150: Reading & Study Skills

English R150 is a reading and study skills course focusing on becoming a successful college student. Topic emphasis includes note taking, test taking, learning styles, textbook reading and comprehension, contextual vocabulary, and other appropriate study skills for active learning.

Students may elect to take this course as they begin their academic journey. Admitted students take a placement test. All students scoring at a certain level on this test are required to take this course during their first or second semester. Research indicates taking English R150 helps college students succeed.

COAS-W111: Critical Inquiry

Critical Inquiry (CI) facilitates the acquisition of collegiate academic skills by identifying and applying strategies such as critical thinking, critical reading, independent learning, writing, and information management. Using a paired class approach, students learn and apply critical inquiry techniques to their content course materials, skills that they then can transfer to any other college course. CI instructors use various techniques to enable students to pose analytic questions about texts, topics, purposes, and audiences, and to evaluate and discriminate among academic texts and other sources of information. Within the context of the discipline, students will be challenged to critically evaluate information, ideas, and arguments, and to synthesize the course materials with their own ideas. Through Critical Inquiry, students take control of their own learning.

IDIS-G104: Critical Behaviors for Success

Critical Behaviors for Success focuses on critical academic and life skills necessary for success in college and career. Emphasis is on leadership, confidence, motivation, self-management, communication, goals, and collaboration skills as they apply to the university environment. Through introspection, students focus on who they are, where they want to go, and how they will get there.