Reading Meets Success: 19 minutes (Pines Center) - Fall 2011-1

For this Learning Community, you will co-register for the following courses:

1. ENC 0021 (College Prep Writing Skills 2) #392953 Mon/Wed 9:30 am - 10:45 am
   Professor Murray
2. REA 0006C (College Prep Reading 2) #391701 Mon/Wed 11:00 am - 12:15 pm
   Professor Mankowski
3. SLS 1501 (College Success Skills) #392532 Wed 12:30 pm - 1:45 pm
   Professor Fusta
   
   

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Theme/Description of Learning Community

Learning Outcomes

In this Learning Community, students will:

• Gain understanding of the college resources, services and process
• Identify and use their learning style to become successful students in college
• Explore their professional and career interests and objectives.
• Think critically and learn strategies to face and resolve specific educational, personal, and social challenges
• Learn to become more effective critics of their educational performance
• Recognize other students’ cultural backgrounds and learn how to share knowledge and experiences for success
• Discuss ways of preventing bullying and school violence.
• Read a variety of topics related to their professional and personal life
• Learn to identify main ideas, topic sentences, purpose and patterns of organization in order to create a clear organized academic paragraph.
• Differentiate between fact and opinion.

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