The Communications Skills Department teaches courses in developmental reading, advanced reading, and study skills. The department encourages students to view reading as a thinking process and emphasis is placed upon comprehending college level materials. The reading laboratory provides students with supervised tutorial assistance. This course emphasizes developing students' ability to comprehend what they read on a literal level. Inferential reading is introduced.
Narrative material continues to be the focus, but appropriate exposition is also studied.
Students read and interpret material from culturally relevant textbooks. Study strategies introduced are reinforced and applied to more difficult text. Specialized textbook vocabulary is targeted. Admission to this course is based on placement test scores. This course reinforces reading and study strategies applied to advanced texts of a culturally relevant nature.