If you wish to strengthen your comprehension of college-level materials, this is the course for you. This individualized class helps students improve critical reading skills, vocabulary development and reading speed. Students practice and apply learning strategies such as time management, lecture notetaking skills, organizing and marking textbook reading and test taking skills. As a final project, learners will create a study guide that will cover all of the material for the final exam in one of their own courses. This class is open to students at any level.
Independent study is interspersed with weekly meetings.
Learning strategies are taught through audio visual modules designed for self-study. Assignments are due weekly. You implement speed reading techniques in a variety of materials. Students read several books during the period of this 8-week short course. This paired-course format allows you to immediately transfer learning strategies to the content class during the semester you are taking that class.