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IDIS-G104: Foundations for Success

Foundations for Success focuses on critical academic and personal skills necessary for success in college, career, and life. Emphasis is on confidence, motivation, self-management, communication, goals, leadership, 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.

COAS-W111: Critical Inquiry

Critical Inquiry (CI) facilitates the acquisition of collegiate academic skills when studentsidentify and apply strategies such as critical thinking, critical reading, independent and group learning, writing, and information management. Using a paired class approach, students learn and apply critical inquiry techniques to their content course materials. They can then transfer these skills to many other college courses. 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 learn how to take control of their own learning.

ENG-R150: Reading & Study Skills (for English as a Second Language students)

English R150 is a reading and study skills course for students whose first language is not English. Its purpose is to help students succeed in college. Topics emphasized include note taking, test taking, learning styles, textbook reading and comprehension, contextual vocabulary, and other appropriate study skills for active learning.