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Dec 22, 2024
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GS 095 - Critical Reading4 lecture hours 0 lab hours 3 credits
Course Description
The development of critical reading skills is essential to success in post-secondary academic studies. Critical Reading is designed to improve upon students’ standard reading skills, such as comprehension and vocabulary development, while concurrently developing their higher-order critical thinking skills. Students will work with authentic texts on a variety of subject matters, taken from academic journals, professional and general-interest magazines, opinion columns, and websites. Working with these texts, they will utilize skills that are fundamental to developing critical awareness. This course also enhances students’ understanding of American culture by engaging them in the reading of classic American novels or short stories. (prereq: none)
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Build an understanding of critical, academic vocabulary
- Consider place and date of text publication
- Identify author bias and purpose
- Evaluate the scope of research
- Distinguish fact from opinion
- Compare the author’s argument to alternative points of view
- Evaluate the strength of an argument and the validity of a text
- Critically review an article
- Read, analyze, and discuss short stories
- Define, locate and analyze literary elements
Coordinator
Katherine Toske
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