Students engage in critical literacy practices to develop critical thinking, critical reading, and analytical writing and communication skills that are required in college-level classes. Coursework emphasizes the critical reading of a variety of texts and the synthesis and analysis of these texts through the writing process and use of multimodal writing and reading activities.
Students whose Accuplacer placement test scores place them into Developmental Reading, Developmental English, and at least one Developmental Reading or Developmental English Support course can enroll in ENG-096. Successful completion of ENG-096 with a score of 70% or higher will lead to placement into ENG-121 with ENG-121S.