If students' scores on placement test indicate that they need to strengthen skills in certain areas, they will be advised to enroll in the appropriate basic skills courses. These students are required to register for these courses the first semester of their freshman year. Instruction in the full semester course emphasizes vocabulary, comprehension and study skills. It is a required course for entering students who do not pass the Rowan University Placement Test in Reading. Reading and Study Skills Improvement 1.5 credits This basic skills quarter course aids students who need to refine their reading skills.
Instruction emphasizes the efficient use of reading skills necessary for success in college.
It is a required course for entering students who do not pass the Rowan University Placement Test in Reading. Writing Improving Personal Writing Skills 3.0 credits This developmental writing course helps students eliminate major writing problems with essay organization, support and mechanics. The course improves students' writing prior to enrollment in College Composition I. Algebra Basic Algebra 3.0 credits This full semester basic skills course includes signed numbers, first degree equations, factoring, exponents, roots and radicals, rational expressions, system of equations and graphing. Use of calculators is required. Students do not receive graduation credit for passing basic skills courses.