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2023-2024 Undergraduate Academic Catalog-June Update 
    
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EAP 0200 - Critical Reading and Listening

3 lecture hours 0 lab hours 3 credits
Course Description
This course is designed to improve upon students’ academic reading and listening skills 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, as well as academic lectures and talks, panel discussions, and news reports.  Working with these texts, they will utilize skills that are fundamental to developing critical awareness.  Through various structured activities, students will also build their academic vocabulary, as well as their comprehension of concepts in key academic disciplines. (prereq: none)
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  • Build an understanding of critical, academic and discipline-specific vocabulary
  • Determine and explore areas of interest within students’ field of study
  • Listen actively to interviews, lectures, presentations, and panel discussions
  • Actively read a variety of academic and general-interest texts
  • Identify text organization, rhetorical structures, and key facts and details while listening and reading
  • Recognize the perspective, purpose and biases of a speaker or writer
  • Refine note-taking and active reading and listening skills
  • Identify problems and evaluate arguments in written and aural texts
  • Consider place and date of text publication
  • Distinguish fact from opinion
  • Compare an author or speaker’s argument to alternative points of view
  • Evaluate the strength of an argument and the validity of a text
  • Critically review an article or talk
Prerequisites by Topic
  • None
Course Topics
  • Academic and discipline-specific vocabulary tracking and application
  • Note-taking, active listening, and active reading
  • Text organization, rhetorical structures, and key facts and details
  • Perspective, purpose and biases of a speaker or writer
  • Argument evaluation and analysis
  • Critical reviews of articles and talks
  • Individual, major-specific investigative project
Coordinator
Katherine Toske


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