|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Course Criteria
Add courses to your favorites to save, share, and find your best transfer school.
-
3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Course required based on assessment test reading scores Provides directed practice in development of college reading skills, emphasizing vocabulary skills, comprehension skills, advanced reading skills, and reading for study Vocabulary skills include dictionary use, word components and etymology, context clues, and multiple meanings of words Comprehension skills include main ideas and support words signaling key concepts Advanced reading skills include critical reading and reading efficiency Reading for study includes effective textbook study methods, outlining, study mapping, summarizing, and textbook graphics
-
3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Nelson/Denny reading test scaled score of 158 and ESL 101 Directed practice in college reading skills emphasizing vocabulary, comprehension, critical thinking, reading efficiency, and reading across the curriculum for non-native speaking students Student must take the Compass ESL test
-
3.00 Credits
Directed practice in advanced college level reading skills emphasizing discipline specific vocabulary, advanced comprehension, higher level critical thinking skills, improved reading efficiency and reading across the curriculum for ESL students
-
3.00 Credits
Reading Across the Disciplines is designed to improve college students' reading and thinking skills through skill instruction and extensive guided practice with academic discipline-based readings This course will teach the relevance of college studies to events and issues in everyday life through the use of engaging readings Students will understand, evaluate and apply what they read as well as providing instruction in comprehension, questioning, clarifying, and analyzing to reach objective, reasoned judgments essential to college reading skills This course will develop college level vocabulary, inferential and critical reading and thinking skills and guide student applications in each of the academic disciplines Content area specific readings will be used to demonstrate how academic disciplines embrace and investigate topics of interest and concern to a college student's experience
-
3.00 Credits
Examination of key figures in sociology Introduction to history of sociology, sociologists, theoretical perspectives, and the classical and contemporary sociological theory and the application of theory to social groups, social interaction, and social institutions
-
3.00 Credits
Overview of normal effects of aging including physical, psychological, and social changes Problems associated with aging, such as increased dependence, loss of health, financial constraints, loss of friends and spouse, and altered living arrangements Content presented from perspective of aging person and society as a whole
-
3.00 Credits
Study of major social problems facing human groups in modern society such as deviance, inequality, war, and overpopulation Emphasis placed on social problems that arise as result of institutional fluctuations in economy, family, government, religion, science, and technology
-
3.00 Credits
Reviews historical development of the family and patterns of intimate relationships in modern society Analysis of institution of family in terms of relationship to other institutions in society Specific topics include love, dating, parenting, families in crisis, and alternative lifestyles
-
3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: SOC 101, ENG 101 Major trends in art examined in relationship to socio-historical developments Art seen as both comment on and reflection of society Team taught by sociology instructor and art instructor Suggested corequisite: ART 101 or ART 150
-
3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Any introductory social science course (ie HIS 101, 102, or 115; POL 101; PSY 01; SOC 101; or ANT 102) Focus on analysis of women in society and culture Multiple disciplines examined as means to study social processes through which sex roles develop and are acquired Examines individual and social consequences of sex inequality
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Privacy Statement
|
Terms of Use
|
Institutional Membership Information
|
About AcademyOne
Copyright 2006 - 2024 AcademyOne, Inc.
|
|
|