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Apr 28, 2024
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PCADE 085 English for Current World Issues (5 credits)
Course Description
This course will help students develop critical thinking, reading, and writing skills at the high school level. Students will demonstrate their reading for comprehension and writing skills through reflective essays.
Course Content
A. Current readings/materials
B. Opposing opinion resources
C. Essays and short stories
D. Reading strategies and routines
E. Proper citation style and format; differentiating between paraphrasing, citing and plagiarism
F. Writing Standards regarding word choice, spelling, punctuation, sentence structure and organization
Student Outcomes
Apply critical thinking skills, support analysis, and reflect upon events by developing arguments and ideas through writing.
Cite evidence using disciplinary standards to represent different points of view and support claims.
Integrate primary and secondary sources to support claims and conclusions.
Apply the writing process by producing effective and rhetorically appropriate documents in order to meet communicative goals and situational context (formality, subject position, etc.).
Use computer software for academic purposes in order to compose and communicate effectively.
Evaluate the credibility of materials in order to develop information competency.
Determine the meaning and impact of words and phrases as they are used in text, including figurative and connotative meanings.
Degree Outcomes
Critical, Creative, and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.
Effective Communication: Graduates will be able to exchange messages in a variety of contexts using multiple methods. Students will use scientific methods to explore the natural world.
Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50
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