IAEP 101 Academic Reading I

This course provides international students an opportunity to develop the reading and critical thinking skills they need to achieve academic success. Students will learn and apply intermediate level academic reading skills and strategies to improve comprehension of a variety of realistic academic texts. This course will help students build their academic vocabulary through the use of vocabulary techniques such as making good use of the dictionary, learning new vocabulary from reading, guessing meaning from context, recognizing collocations, and understanding sentence structure and reference. There will be an emphasis on learning and utilizing critical thinking skills to analyze and evaluate academic texts.