Reading and Writing Community Stories

CN

73

Reading and Writing Community Stories

This is a theme based developmental reading and writing course which will provide students with a foundation in the key academic reading and writing skills used in many humanities and social science college courses. The emphasis throughout the course will be placed on improving students'reading and writing skills by developing reading strategies for determining essential vs. non-essential elements of assigned texts, developing academic vocabulary, and writing essays in which they practice using theoretical approaches learned in the course. They will learn how to contextualize and move beyond one's own experience to look at and understand the experience of others from a global and historical perspective - one of important goals in many college levels courses in humanities and social sciences. Students will also further refine specific skills necessary to succeed on the CUNY placement exams in reading and writing.

Fall, Spring

Undergraduate

No