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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:

  1. Interpret graphs and charts
  2. Look for patterns and trends
  3. 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:

  1. Apply the Four Step Reading Process and record margin notes to annotate a text
  2. Actively create text to self, text to text, and text to world connections while reading
  3. Record predictions and questions
  4. Distinguish fact from opinion
  5. Draw inferences to identify the implied main idea
  6. 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:

  1. Use of connotative/denotative meaning, figurative language, and literal versus implied meaning and how they influence an interpretation of a text
  2. Evaluate an author’s: purpose, tone, claim, argument
  3. Probe and challenge underlying bias and assumptions
  4. Recognize pattern of organization within sentences and paragraphs of a text.
  5. Effectively paraphrase and summarize texts using journalistic style questions
  6. 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:

  1. Evaluate corroboration of sources
  2. Construct interpretations of a text by making judgments and connections with prior knowledge and experience
  3. Integrate primary and secondary sources using MLA and APA citation correctly
  4. 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
 

  1. The Four Part Reading Process
  2. Structure of Expository texts
  3. Patterns of Organization
  4. Examining the purpose and structure of an argument
  5. Interpretive Reading and Critical Thinking
  6. Effectively Retelling, paraphrasing, and summarizing
  7. Concepts Maps and Interpreting Graphs and Charts
  8. 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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