Courses


 * [|Development Skills Course Offerings]**

3 credits, 3 hours Critical Thinking presents reasoning and problem solving techniques. It begins with a description of the thinking process and proceeds to examine areas such as identifying problems; understanding the roles of evidence, interpretation and perception in reasoning: distinguishing between belief and knowledge, understanding the role of language; technique for organizing information, and methods for building and analyzing arguments. Cross-listed as PHI115 -- Liberal Arts elective.
 * Critical Thinking** **CRT 100/PHI115**

0 credits, 9 hours 0 credits, 3 hours These two Intensive English courses are designed in their combined form to improve the reading/writing and aural/oral skills of the beginning and low-intermediate student. These two courses must be taken concurrently and are obligatory for one semester for all incoming ESL students whose placement examinations show a need for instruction at this level.
 * English as a Second Language (ESL 054)**
 * English as a Second Language (ESL 049)**

0 credits, 6 hours This is a high-intermediate level course that combines listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. Narrative and descriptive writing are emphasized and expository writing is introduced.
 * English as a Second Language (ESL 062)**

0 credits, 6 hours This advanced level course emphasizes writing and reading skills; however, oral skills are not neglected. In writing, students focus on introducing, developing, supporting, and organizing their ideas in expository essays as well as in narrative and descriptive writing.
 * English as a Second Language (ESL 094)**

0 credits, 6 hours This intensive writing course for ESL students focuses on basic components of effective writing, including paragraph development and structure, sentence structure, word choice, and content. Students read and respond to a variety of texts and use argumentation, narrative, and description as modes of developing ideas in writing.
 * English as a Second Language Intensive Writing (ESL 095)**

3 credits, 3 hours This course introduces the student to the study of language in multicultural urban settings. The course will introduce related topics, such as bilingual/bidialectal families and bilingual education, language and gender, literacy in a changing, technological society, child language acquisition, and different dialects and registers of English. The readings will draw on works in linguistics, literature, and related fields. Students will work on critical reading and produce writing based on the readings in connections with their own experiences and backgrounds. Cross-listed as ANT100. Liberal Arts elective.
 * Linguistics (LIN100/ANT100)**

0 credits, 6 hours This introductory college reading course emphasizes improving reading comprehension through the practice of literal, inferential and critical reading skills, vocabulary development, writing, flexible reading rates, and study. A variety of materials is used to enrich students’ basic understanding of reading.
 * Academic and Critical Reading I (ACR094)**

0 credits, 6 hours This advanced reading course is designed to help students master a full range of college-level reading and related skills, including critical comprehension, vocabulary, writing, flexible rate of reading and student strategies. A variety of college-level material is used.
 * Academic and Critical Reading II (ACR095)**