Critical Reading & Academic Advisement

RDG 000 - RDG 000 Academic Reading for Beginner ESL Students (ESL RDG Beginner)

Prerequisites: Placement into course.

Description: RDG 000 is for English language learners at a beginner level whose goal is to be successful in credit-bearing courses at NCC. This course is for non-native English speakers to develop academic reading skills at a beginner level. Students will focus on developing comprehension, vocabulary, and critical thinking skills. Proficiency in these skills will prepare the student for entrance into RDG 010. (3hrs lecture) Entrance exams are required. SUNY GEN ED-n/a; NCC GEN ED-n/a Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer

Credit Hours: 0
Department: English

RDG 001 - Individualized Reading and Study Improvement

Prerequisites: Satisfactory completion of BEP 090, if required.

Description: A required course for students who demonstrate a strong need for developmental Reading coursework according to the College Placement Test. Instruction will include recognition of main ideas and details, critical reading skills, and vocabulary strategies. Students will develop techniques for annotating, outlining, mapping and summarizing a variety of genres of text. Students learn to build upon their strengths as readers as well as to address their individual study needs through ongoing assessments. Reading laboratory is required weekly for guided, individualized exploration of text. (3 lecture hours, 1 laboratory hour) Students assigned to this course must pass it before proceeding to ENG 101. SUNY GEN ED-n/a; NCC GEN ED-n/a Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer

Credit Hours: 0
Department: English

RDG 002 - Reading and Studying College Texts

Prerequisites: Satisfactory completion of BEP 090 or RDG 001, if required.

Description: A required course for students who demonstrate the need for support in developing the strategies and techniques required to meet the demands of college reading across the disciplines. Instruction will include the application of more advanced reading strategies using content reading from college texts. All strategies will foster the reading/responding connection. The techniques students learn and practice through this course will be applied directly to academic course work. Supplemental support and practice in reading and studying strategies will be available in a Reading Help Center. SUNY GEN ED-n/a; NCC GEN ED-n/a Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer

Credit Hours: 0
Department: English

RDG 003 - Individualized Reading and Reading/Studying College Texts

Description: Prerequisite: Placement into no more than two remedial courses, one of which is RDG 001, or those students who have passed BEP RDG 090 and exhibit strong mastery of concepts and behaviors integral to that course; eligibility for outgoing BEP students is determined by Department only. This course, which is non-credit, is a one-semester option to replace the two-semester sequence of RDG 001 and RDG 002. Instruction will incorporate pre-reading and active reading strategies including brainstorming, previewing, annotating, outlining, summarizing, paraphrasing, determining main ideas as well as major and minor details, improving general and discipline-specific vocabulary, inferencing, synthesizing information and ideas, and adaptating critical reading strategies to a variety of college texts. Students will be encouraged to read, analyze, evaluate and respond to academic text both orally and in writing. Emphasis will be placed on researching, reading and responding to information gleaned from online and print sources. Supplemental practice in reading and study strategies will be available in a Reading Help Center. This course cannot be repeated. Students assigned to this course must pass it in order to proceed to ENG 101. SUNY GEN ED-n/a; NCC GEN ED-n/a Offered: Fall, Spring

Credit Hours: 0
Department: English

RDG 010 - RDG 010 Academic Reading for Low Intermediate ESL students

Prerequisites: Successful completion of ENG 000 or placement into the course.

Description: RDG 010 is for English language learners at a low intermediate level whose goal is to be successful in credit-bearing courses at NCC. This course is for non-native English speakers to develop academic reading skills at an intermediate level. Students will focus on developing comprehension, vocabulary, and critical thinking skills. Proficiency in these skills will prepare the student for entrance into RDG 020. (3hrs lecture) Entrance exams are required. SUNY GEN ED-n/a; NCC GEN ED-n/a Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer

Credit Hours: 0
Department: English

RDG 020 - RDG020 - Academic Reading for Intermediate ESL Students

Prerequisites: Successful completion of ENG 010 or placement into the course.

Description: RDG 020 is for English language learners at a low intermediate level whose goal is to be successful in credit-bearing courses at NCC. This course is for non-native English speakers to develop academic reading skills at an intermediate level. Students will focus on developing comprehension, vocabulary, and critical thinking skills. Proficiency in these skills will prepare the student for entrance into RDG 030. (3hrs lecture) Entrance exams are required. SUNY GEN ED-n/a; NCC GEN ED-n/a Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer

Credit Hours: 0
Department: English

RDG 030 - Rdg ESL 3 - Reading and Study for the Foreign Student

Prerequisites: Completion of ELI (English Language Institute) or placement by department.

Description: This is a required course for students who speak English as a second language and who demonstrate a need to develop mastery of college-level reading and study skills. Emphasis will be in the areas of inferential and critical reading, textbook study strategies, library research, vocabulary enrichment and the development of reading fluency. Students are required to attend a supervised reading laboratory session weekly for individualized supplemental instruction. Completion of RDG 030 will enable students to take a credited reading class. (3 lecture hours, 1 laboratory hour). SUNY GEN ED-n/a; NCC GEN ED-n/a Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer

Credit Hours: 0
Department: English

RDG 101 - Effective College Reading

Prerequisites: Satisfaction of all non-credit Reading requirements.

Description: This is an advanced Reading course focusing on the critical reading of expository and narrative text from a variety of print and digital sources. Students will develop critical reading strategies to be used in the context of reading about issues facing them as members of society and as candidates for further study or for the world of work. There will be an emphasis on information literacy and on writing, in response to reading. SUNY GE-SHUM; SUNY GEN ED-GHUM; NCC GEN ED-HUM Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer

Credit Hours: 3
Department: English

RDG 102 - Speed Reading

Prerequisites: RDG 101 placement.

Description: This is a concentrated course designed to present the theories of speed reading and to provide students with extensive practice in developing a greater range in their efficient reading rate. Ability to adjust one’s reading skills, especially rate and meaning making, to the genre and sophistication of the text under exploration are the main concern. SUNY GEN ED-n/a; NCC GEN ED-HUM Offered: Spring

Credit Hours: 3
Department: English

RDG 103 - Reading the New Media

Prerequisites: Satisfaction of all non-credit Reading requirements.

Description: This course invites students to apply the tools of critical reading to the new media. Using advanced literacy and comprehension skills, students will analyze, interpret, assess and synthesize information pertaining to news, contemporary issues, the arts and entertainment coming to them from a variety of on-line and textual sources, including, but not limited to, blogs, on-line newspapers and magazines, wikis, social networking and video sharing sites. SUNY GE-SHUM; SUNY GEN ED-GHUM; NCC GEN ED-HUM Offered: Fall, Spring

Credit Hours: 3
Department: English

RDG 104 - News on the Net

Prerequisites: Satisfaction of all non-credit Reading requirements

Description: This course is designed to teach students to become more discriminating news consumers as we are flooded by information and disinformation through the digital technology. The course helps students apply critical reading skills in the indentification of propaganda, bias, fairness, assertion, verification, evidence and implication in the presentation of news. The ramifications of culture, business and government on news delivery and reception by the public will be studied. SUNY GE-SHUM; SUNY GEN ED-GHUM; NCC GEN ED-HUM Offered: Fall, Spring

Credit Hours: 3
Department: English