COLS 120 - Academic Communication Skills

Credit(s): 3

This course is designed to develop critical speaking, reading, and writing strategies. It focuses on increasing reading comprehension, rhetorical knowledge, conventions, critical thinking, and study skills. Students will engage in diverse applied writing, speaking, and listening opportunities. Students will be able to monitor positive and negative comprehension signals and apply appropriate strategies to correct incomplete comprehension. (Fall and Spring Semesters)

Course Learning Outcomes

Adapt content and mode of presentation to fit a given audience and medium.
Communicate understanding of facts and ideas by organizing, comparing, translating, interpreting, describing, and stating main ideas.
Evaluate and defend opinions with supporting information apply appropriate conventions for discipline-specific papers and presentations express.
Interpret, or modify ideas to communicate effectively.
Integrate listening and reading based on a theme of relevance to students.
Apply appropriate study strategies for given learning situations.