Must be taken concurrently with ENG 100. Satisfies the freshman seminar general education requirement. A course designed for students at all reading levels. Emphasis on increasing the rate of reading and comprehension and on vocabulary expansion. Practice is applied to both fiction and nonfiction reading material.
Students can easily quadruple their entering rate of reading without comprehension loss.
A carefully-supervised practicum for undergraduates who desire experience in teaching composition and grammar. Students will receive six weeks training in theoretical and practical concerns related to tutoring in the Writing Center. Students will be selected on the basis of GPA and professor recommendation. Cannot be repeated for credit. Includes study of first and second language acquisition, language structure and grammar, the historical development of English, language variation and language use.