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1.00 Credits
16 hours total This interactive short-term intensive four-week course is designed to help students who are preparing to take the GED test and need to increase their academic vocabularies and self-assurance in speaking and writing. Five groups of words will be introduced, discussed, and practiced in classroom exercises and in computer drills. The vocabulary words for everyday life in Module 1 are grouped under the following headings: tools, people, legal terms, environment, and government. Students will also keep a journal of new words during the fourweek period. (R2)
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2.00 Credits
16 hours total This interactive short-term intensive four-week course is designed to help students who are preparing to take the GED test and need to increase their academic vocabularies and self-assurance in speaking and writing. Five groups of words will be introduced, discussed, and practiced in classroom exercises and in computer drills. The vocabulary words for arts and entertainment in Module 2 are grouped under the following headings: architecture, arts, music, sports, literature. Students will also keep a journal of new words related to arts and entertainment during the four-week period. (R2)
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3.00 Credits
16 hours total This interactive short-term intensive four-week course is designed to help students who are preparing to take the GED test and need to increase their academic vocabularies and self-assurance in speaking and writing. Five groups of words will be introduced, discussed, and practiced in classroom exercises and in computer drills. The vocabulary words for medicine, business and the professions in Module 3 are grouped under the following headings: doctors, medical terms, business, computers, professions. Students will also keep a journal of new words related to medicine, business, and the professions during the four-week period. (R2)
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1.00 Credits
4 hours weekly This course is designed for individuals working toward passing the GED. Students enrolled in GED 911 should have reading grade levels from 3.0 to 5.5. Emphasis is on reading instruction: word attack skills, comprehension, including determining main idea and identifying major supporting details; vocabulary development; following directions; filling out forms; fluency; and reading rate. (R2)
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2.00 Credits
4 hours weekly This course is designed for those individuals working toward passing the GED and is recommended to students whose reading level is 5.5 - 8.0 or for those who have successfully completed GED 911. Emphasis is on reading instruction: comprehension, including determining main idea, identifying major supporting details, distinguishing between major and minor details, identifying paragraph patterns, sequencing, using inference, finding facts, and following directions; vocabulary development, including context clues, affixes, and analogies; study skills, including reading aids, SQ3R, and test taking strategies; fluency; and reading rate. (R2)
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16.00 Credits
16 hours total This short-term intensive course is designed to enhance students' critical thinking skills in social studies related to GED test preparation. The course will introduce content-specific vocabulary and focus on comprehending, interpreting, summarizing, applying, and evaluating charts, graphs, tables, maps, and editorial and political cartoons. Short social studies passages will be analyzed and summarized according to cause and effect or sequence of events approaches to organizing information. Additional emphasis will be placed on writing activities related to social studies.
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16.00 Credits
16 hours total This short-term intensive course is designed to enhance students' critical thinking skills in science related to GED test preparation. The course will introduce content- specific vocabulary and focus on comprehending, interpreting, summarizing, applying, and evaluating charts, graphs, tables, matrices, and diagrams related to science. Scientific cycles, systems, and processes will be analyzed and summarized using the scientific method and according to the cause and effect approach to organizing information. Additional emphasis will be placed on review of formulas and understanding the steps in scientific experiments.
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16.00 Credits
16 hours total This short-term intensive course is designed to enhance students' critical thinking skills in literature and the arts related to GED test preparation. The course will introduce content-specific vocabulary and focus on finding main idea or supporting details of a passage, analyzing implications, and making inferences. Selected passages of nonfiction prose, prose fiction, poetry, drama, and commentaries on art will be introduced and analyzed. Students will practice applying information gleaned from selected passages to a new context or setting.
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1.00 Credits
4 hours weekly This course is designed as the first of three courses intended for students preparing for the GED Examination in Writing. This course begins at the sentence creation level, reviewing basic parts of speech, sentence types, sentence combining, punctuation, and common grammatical and mechanical errors. Vocabulary and spelling skills are also developed. Special emphasis is placed on creating clear, syntactically and mechanically correct sentences. (R2)
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2.00 Credits
4 hours weekly This course is designed as the second of three courses intended for students preparing for the GED Examination in Writing. The emphasis in this course is paragraph development, focusing upon organizing ideas that support a topic sentence. This course requires intensive practice in paragraph writing. This course also reviews skills learned in GED 921. (R2)
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