DRE 096 - Integrated Reading and Writing

Class Hours 2.5
Lab Hours 1
Clinical Hours 0
Work Experience 0
Credit Hours 3
Minimum State Prerequisites: None
Minimum State Corequisites: None
Local Prerequisites: Appropriate placement scores
Local Corequisites: None

This course develops proficiency in specific integrated and contextualized reading and writing skills and strategies. Topics include reading and writing processes, critical thinking strategies, and recognition and composition of well-developed, coherent, and unified texts; these topics are primarily taught at the introductory level using texts primarily in a Lexile range of 960 to 1115. Upon completion, students should be able to apply those skills toward understanding a variety of academic and career-related texts and composing effective paragraphs.

College Transfer: N/A