Collegiate Skills - COLLS 53
Critical Reading and Thinking Applications
4 Credit Hours4 Lecture Hours
Course Description
This course focuses on developing brain-based comprehension strategies to actively read and process information from a variety of texts. Students will study test taking, including proper question/answer techniques. They will learn a variety of vocabulary strategies as well as strategies to critically analyze, synthesize and evaluate argumentative and expository essays.
Prerequisites
(A requirement that must be completed before taking this course.)
- COLLS 50 or minimum score of 15 ACT-Reading, 22 SAT-Reading, 57 CPT-Reading Comprehension or 237 NGA-Reading.
Course Competencies
Upon successful completion of the course, the student should be able to:
- Develop reading comprehension strategies for various types of written material.
- Differentiate between stated and unstated main ideas and supporting details in paragraphs, essays and texts.
- Analyze vocabulary word parts and context clues in paragraphs, essays and texts.
- Identify major organizational writing patterns in paragraphs, visuals, essays and texts.
- Identify author's purpose and point of view in paragraphs, visuals, essays and texts.
- Recognize valid inferences in various paragraphs, visuals, essays and texts.
- Identify the central point and major supporting elements in visuals, essays and texts.
- Document important events while reading an autobiography and generate short essays.
- Use appropriate organizational, summative, notational and/or visual techniques to integrate related information.
- Demonstrate appropriate test preparation and test taking techniques.
- Identify essential elements of an argument.
- Formulate a valid, documented response to an argument.
Course Schedule
| 053 | 140508 | Critical Read Think App | MC | 4 | Wernholm A | 25/25/0 | Open | $13.00 | T R 12:30 PM-01:40 PM MC015 T R 01:46 PM-03:02 PM MC040
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| 053 | 140516 | Critical Read Think App | MC | 4 | Boyde S | 25/25/0 | Open | $13.00 | M W 03:00 PM-04:10 PM MC035 M W 04:16 PM-05:32 PM MC040
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| 053 | 140553 | Critical Read Think App | MC | 4 | Boyde S | 25/25/0 | Open | $13.00 | M 06:00 PM-08:26 PM MC015 W 06:00 PM-08:26 PM MC040
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| 053 | 140509 | Critical Read Think App | MC | 4 | Boyde S | 25/25/0 | Open | $13.00 | M W 09:00 AM-09:54 AM MC035 M W 10:00 AM-10:54 AM MC040
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| 053 | 140510 | Critical Read Think App | MC | 4 | Wernholm A | 20/20/0 | Open | $13.00 | T R 10:00 AM-10:54 AM MC015 T R 11:00 AM-11:54 AM MC050
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| 053 | 120509 | Critical Read Think App | MC | 4 | Boyde S | 23/28/0 | Open | $13.00 | M W 09:00 AM-01:13 PM MC050
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| 053 | 130502 | Critical Read Think App | MC | 4 | Boyde S | 27/28/0 | Open | $13.00 | T R 01:00 PM-05:13 PM MC050
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| 053 | 110506 | Critical Read Think App | MC | 4 | Wernholm A | 15/20/0 | Open | $13.00 | M W 09:00 AM-09:54 AM LA300 M W 10:00 AM-10:53 AM LA320
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| 053 | 110508 | Critical Read Think App | MC | 4 | Wernholm A | 18/24/0 | Open | $13.00 | T R 09:00 AM-09:54 AM MC035 T R 10:00 AM-10:53 AM MC040
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| 053 | 110511 | Critical Read Think App | MC | 4 | Boyde S | 17/24/0 | Open | $13.00 | M W 12:00 PM-01:53 PM MC040
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| 053 | 110518 | Critical Read Think App | MC | 4 | Boyde S | 17/24/0 | Open | $13.00 | T R 12:00 PM-01:53 PM MC040
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| 053 | 110560 | Critical Read Think App | MC | 4 | Boyde S | 19/24/0 | Open | $13.00 | T R 06:00 PM-06:54 PM MC035 T R 07:00 PM-07:53 PM MC011
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