ES 1050 - Read Around the World

Institution:

Curry College

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Description:

Fall and Spring Semesters Teaches successful reading strategies while instructing about world cultures. These reading strategies (including pre-reading, annotating text, making connections, thinking aloud and questioning the author) can be applied to any reading task to help students better engage in and understand whatever they are reading. This class will teach these strategies and help students to implement them through readings in comparative mythology, short fiction, international current events (non-fiction), a brief novel and a textbook chapter on European Colonialism throughout the world. Students will be reading works by authors from Asia, Africa, Europe, the Americas and the Middle East.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.curry.edu

Phone Number:

(617) 333-2900

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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