READ 1200 - Reading in the Disciplines Credit Hours: 4.00
Prerequisites: None
(formerly READ 1100)
This course engages students in collaborative dialogue and the application of reading and writing strategies. This class will improve students’ comprehension of technical and discipline-specific texts while developing the ability to read and think critically needed to succeed in college level coursework.
Billable Contact Hours: 4
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OUTCOMES AND OBJECTIVES
Outcome 1: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to create a concept map to demonstrate relationships between and among ideas: cause/effect, comparison/contrast, sequence.
Objectives:
- Interpret graphs and charts
- Look for patterns and trends
- Interpret patterns of organization within sentences and paragraphs and charts
Outcome 2: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to test and verify hypotheses through the application of before, during and after reading/study strategies to develop comprehension.
Objectives:
- Apply the Four Step Reading Process and record margin notes to annotate a text
- Actively create text to self, text to text, and text to world connections while reading
- Record predictions and questions
- Distinguish fact from opinion
- Draw inferences to identify the implied main idea
- Monitor comprehension by deploying fix-it strategies as needed. For example, rereading, citing evidence from the text to support reasoning
Outcome 3: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to reconstruct the rhetorical tools of an author or discipline specific text.
Objectives:
- Use of connotative/denotative meaning, figurative language, and literal versus implied meaning and how they influence an interpretation of a text
- Evaluate an author’s: purpose, tone, claim, argument
- Probe and challenge underlying bias and assumptions
- Recognize pattern of organization within sentences and paragraphs of a text.
- Effectively paraphrase and summarize texts using journalistic style questions
- Identify discipline specific vocabulary and syntax
Outcome 4: Upon completion of this course students will be able to evaluate multiple perspectives to find inter-textual links between related authors/topics.
Objectives:
- Evaluate corroboration of sources
- Construct interpretations of a text by making judgments and connections with prior knowledge and experience
- Integrate primary and secondary sources using MLA and APA citation correctly
- Explore reactions and response to texts orally and in writing to reinforce the connection between reading and writing
COMMON DEGREE OUTCOMES (CDO)
• Communication: The graduate can communicate effectively for the intended purpose and audience.
• Critical Thinking: The graduate can make informed decisions after analyzing information or evidence related to the issue.
• Global Literacy: The graduate can analyze human behavior or experiences through cultural, social, political, or economic perspectives.
• Information Literacy: The graduate can responsibly use information gathered from a variety of formats in order to complete a task.
• Quantitative Reasoning: The graduate can apply quantitative methods or evidence to solve problems or make judgments.
• Scientific Literacy: The graduate can produce or interpret scientific information presented in a variety of formats.
CDO marked YES apply to this course:
Communication: YES
Critical Thinking: YES
Global Literacy: YES
Information Literacy: YES
COURSE CONTENT OUTLINE
- The Four Part Reading Process
- Structure of Expository texts
- Patterns of Organization
- Examining the purpose and structure of an argument
- Interpretive Reading and Critical Thinking
- Effectively Retelling, paraphrasing, and summarizing
- Concepts Maps and Interpreting Graphs and Charts
- Using research techniques by citing information using MLA and APA format
Primary Faculty
Ferguson, Cheryl
Secondary Faculty
Mayernik, Heather
Associate Dean
Ternullo, Annette
Dean
Pritchett, Marie
Official Course Syllabus - Macomb Community College, 14500 E 12 Mile Road, Warren, MI 48088
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