College Reading 23.110.02

Course Overview and Description
College Reading is designed to develop a theoretical and practical knowledge of college-level *thinking, study strategies* and *behaviors of learning* to enable students to accelerate and control their learning. This course teaches students to understand their learning strengths and weaknesses, and to monitor their own growth and change. College Reading stresses the importance of accepting personal responsibility for learning and emphasizes the development of intrinsic motivation. Class discussions, written assignments, and on-going analysis of course content via the Internet provide opportunities for interactions among students and the professor which encourage students to transform theory into practice, and to risk applying new strategies and skills. This semester's work will revolve around three areas of learning: 1. Constructing Meaning Understanding more about yourselves and how you learn Making connections between what you know and the knowledge to be learned. 2. Strategies for Learning Developing skills and strategies to make you more efficient students Establishing goals to direct your learning 3. Monitoring Learning Developing the ability to monitor your own learning

Course Overview and Description

College Reading is designed to develop a theoretical and practical knowledge of college-level thinking, study strategies and behaviors of learning to enable students to accelerate and control their learning. This course teaches students to understand their learning strengths and weaknesses, and to monitor their own growth and change.

College Reading stresses the importance of accepting personal responsibility for learning and emphasizes the development of intrinsic motivation. Class discussions, written assignments, and on-going analysis of course content via the Internet provide opportunities for interactions among students and the professor which encourage students to transform theory into practice, and to risk applying new strategies and skills.

This semester's work will revolve around three areas of learning:

1. Constructing Meaning

Understanding more about yourselves and how you learn

Making connections between what you know and the knowledge to be learned.

2. Strategies for Learning

Developing skills and strategies to make you more efficient students

Establishing goals to direct your learning

3. Monitoring Learning

Developing the ability to monitor your own learning

Texts:

Nist and Diehl, Developing Textbook Thinking, 3rd Edition, D.C. Heath and Co. 1994.
Armstrong, Thomas, 7 Kinds of Smart, Penguin Books, 1993.
Eschholz and Rosa, Themes for Writers, St. Martin's Press, 1994.
Additional readings will be required. The student's own textbooks will be used for direct application of learning principles and strategies.


Last Updated: February 1997 For more information contact: marchellis@aol.com

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