DVS 070 - College Reading 1
Credits: 4
4 Lecture Hours
Prerequisites: Reading placement test
Co-requisites: DVS 060
Description
This course provides instruction in basic comprehension and vocabulary skills. Students develop awareness of themselves as readers by employing metacognitive strategies. Additionally, students learn to identify and utilize organizational patterns and apply critical reading skills in making judgments about texts. DVS 070 will normally be followed by DVS 101 unless the student’s progress has been so accelerated in DVS 070 that the department advises against a subsequent course.
Students must earn a “C” grade or better to register for the next course in this discipline or to use this course as a prerequisite for a course in another discipline.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the course, the student will:
- Employ strategies that are essential for comprehending and retaining material in college texts.
- Utilize a metacognitive approach to the reading process.
- Utilize strategies that will help them determine the main idea in a paragraph, short selection and essay.
- Label the main idea and significant details in readings.
- Use patterns of organization to take notes.
- Demonstrate their knowledge of critical reading skills.
- Expand basic vocabulary skills through word analysis, dictionary usage and context clues
Listed Topics
- Stages of the reading process
- Main ideas, stated and implied
- Major and minor details
- Textbook organizational patterns
- Basic critical thinking skills
- Vocabulary development
Reference Materials
Current recognized texts, transparencies, handouts, videos, study sheets, Internet resources and multi-media.
Approved By: Sutin, Stewart Date Approved: 01/16/2007
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