7 courses with the subject RDG, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
RDG 002Reading and Studying College Texts0
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 direc SUNY GEN ED -n/a; NCC GEN ED -n/a Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer Department: English
RDG 003Individualized Reading and Reading/Studying College Texts0
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 critic SUNY GEN ED -n/a; NCC GEN ED -n/a Offered: Fall, Spring Department: English RDG 020 - RDG020 - Academic Reading for Intermediate ESL Students 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 r SUNY GEN ED -n/a; NCC GEN ED -n/a Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer Department: English
Successful completion of ENG 010 or placement into the course.
RDG 030Rdg ESL 3 - Reading and Study for the Foreign Student0
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 instructio SUNY GEN ED -n/a; NCC GEN ED -n/a Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer Department: English
Completion of ELI (English Language Institute) or placement by department.
RDG 101Effective College Reading3
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 Department: English
Satisfaction of all non-credit Reading requirements.
RDG 102Speed Reading3
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 Department: English
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 SUNY GE-SHUM; SUNY GEN ED -GHUM; NCC GEN ED -HUM Offered: Fall, Spring Department: English
Satisfaction of all non-credit Reading requirements.
RDG 104News on the Net3
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 t SUNY GE-SHUM; SUNY GEN ED -GHUM; NCC GEN ED -HUM Offered: Fall, Spring Department: English
