READ1308

Meets MN Transfer Curriculum Goal Area 2. The Critical Reading course is designed to improve students' abilities to evaluate the meaning behind information they encounter daily. Students will learn skills from this course which can be applied to a variety of situations, such as, collegiate, professional, and personal settings. Students will improve skills for reading comprehension, memory, and analysis.Student Learning Outcomes

• Analyze factual and opinion statements to determine point of view in a variety of text formats.
• Apply inferencing techniques to analyze multi-modal texts.
• Evaluate notetaking methods best suited for various source materials.
• Analyze memory functions to develop effective reading skills.
• Demonstrate comprehension of a variety of texts and text formats.
• Analyze features found on a variety of text formats.
• Demonstrate the reading process.
• Evaluate a variety of source materials.
• Develop thinking strategies to reduce personal bias to aid comprehension.
• Identify bias in multi-modal texts.