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RDG 001 - Individualized Reading and Study Improvement
Prerequisites: Satisfactory completion of BEP 090, if required.
Description: A required course for students who demonstrate reading deficiencies on the College
Placement Test. Instruction will include recognition of main ideas and details, critical
reading skills, and vocabulary improvement. Reading comprehension and study skills
are enhanced through the practice of outlining, mapping, underlining, and summary
writing. Students' strengths and weaknesses are diagnosed through standardized testing
and ongoing evaluation. Students are required to attend a supervised Reading laboratory
weekly for individualized practice work. (3 lecture hours, 1 laboratory hour) Freshman
assigned to this course must pass it before proceeding to ENG 101.
SUNY GEN ED-n/a; NCC GEN ED-n/a
Credit Hours: 0
Department: Reading/BEP
RDG 002 - Reading and Studying College Texts
Prerequisites: Satisfactory completion of BEP 090 or RDG 001, if required.
Description: This course is designed to help deficient readers meet the demands of college reading
and studying. An in-depth study and application of more advanced reading strategies
will be provided using content readings from college texts. All strategies taught
will foster the reading/writing/thinking connection. The strategies and knowledge
students gain from this course will be applied directly to academic courses. Supplemental
practice in reading and studying strategies will be available in a Reading Center.
SUNY GEN ED-n/a; NCC GEN ED-n/a
Credit Hours: 0
Department: Reading/BEP
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
Credit Hours: 0
Department: Reading/BEP
RDG 101 - Effective College Reading
Prerequisites: Completion of Remedial Reading Courses or RDG 101 Placement.
Description: This is an advanced reading course focusing on the critical reading of mature, college-level
material as well as reading for pleasure. Students will review a variety of strategies
needed for effective academic reading and develop a repertoire of critical reading
strategies to be used in the context of important issues facing today's student, society,
and the diverse career fields in which they are likely to become employed. There will
be an emphasis on information literacy and writing, including the use of library materials
and the Internet. In addition, students will have the opportunity to improve their
individual reading capabilities to facilitate greater comprehension and to develop
a broader vocabulary through challenging reading materials rather than through isolated
exercise.
SUNY GEN ED-n/a; NCC GEN ED-HUM
Credit Hours: 3
Department: Reading/BEP
RDG 102 - Speed Reading
Prerequisites: RDG 101 placement.
Description: A concentrated course designed to present the theories of speed reading and to provide
the student with extensive practice in developing a greater range in his/her efficient
reading rate. Ability to adjust one's reading skills, especially rate and comprehension,
to the type and level of the material are the main concern. This course is not designed
for a student with a comprehension or vocabulary deficiency.
SUNY GEN ED-n/a; NCC GEN ED-n/a
Credit Hours: 3
Department: Reading/BEP
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,
asses 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.
Credit Hours: 3
Department: Reading/BEP
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.
Credit Hours: 3
Department: Reading/BEP
