REGENTS' PREPARATION COURSES

REGENTS' READING SKILLS (RGTR 0198)

The Regents' Reading Skills course is intended to ensure that all graduates of USG institutions possess certain minimum skills in reading comprehension.  Students work on improving their comprehension of material drawn from a variety of subject areas (social science, natural science and humanities) with various modes of discourse (exposition, narration and argumentation).  Critical thinking and the following four major aspects of reading are emphasized: vocabulary in context, inferential and literal comprehension, and analysis.  Institutional credit only (3-0-3)

REGENTS' WRITING SKILLS (RGTE 0199)

The Regents' Writing Skills course is intended to ensure that all graduates of USG institutions possess certain minimum skills in writing.  Students learn to evaluate their own writing strengths and weaknesses and work on improving their writing skills so that they are able to write an essay meeting the Regents’ criteria.  Institutional credit only (3-0-3)

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