GENS 099
Strategies for College Reading

This three-hour, non-credit course includes a strong emphasis on strategies for deriving meaning from academic texts. Samples from current University textbooks used in introductory courses will be used to help students determine stated and implied main ideas and to select the supporting details, to make inferences, to understand transitions, to distinguish fact from opinion and to learn to summarize and outline. Students may improve their vocabulary and improve their understanding of the use of words in context by reading both textbooks and works of fiction and biography. Credit in this course will not apply to a degree. Students whose DRP (Degrees of Reading Power) score meets the University's established level of readiness for Gens 099 may enroll in this course.

For more information about GENS 099,
contact Academic Skills.