Mt. Hood Community College is dedicated to providing students with opportunities to develop the skills and strategies essential to success in college. The English Department offers four courses, including a pre-college level developmental reading course, two college level reading courses, and a college level study skills courses.

 

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
--Richard Steele

 

Introduction to College Reading and Study Skills – RD 90

This course is designed to assist students in the development of reading comprehension skills with a primary instructional focus on identifying and understanding main ideas through an examination of details, the relationships of those details to each other and the main idea, making inferences, summarizing information, and vocabulary development. The course also introduces students to study skills and strategies that will enhance their college learning experience. This course is required for students scoring between 36 and 60 on the college’s placement test.

 

The more that you read,
the more things you will know.
The more that you learn,
the more places you'll go.
--Dr. Seuss

 

Reading for College Success – RD 115

Reading for college success moves the student from instruction focusing on learning to read to a focus on reading to learn. In this course students will develop strategies that will allow them to learn more effectively and more efficiently from college textbook material. Instructional focus targets the acquisition of knowledge from college text material, comprehending that material, and applying that understanding in new situations. This course earns elective credit applicable to degree programs and is a prerequisite to many professional and technical programs.

 

Reading furnishes the mind only with the materials of knowledge;
it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
--John Locke

Critical Reading – RD 117

Critical Reading addresses the higher levels of thinking as it relates to reading. Instruction is designed to assist students in the development of skills necessary to analyze, synthesize, and evaluate various forms of print material. This course earns Humanities credit for degree programs.

 

Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Not everyone can be Number 1.
--Arthur Ashe

 

College Success Skills – EL115C

College Success Skills provides students with a road map to academic success. It is designed to assist students in learning the rules of the road, setting goals, getting organized, applying effective learning strategies such as learning styles, listening skills, note taking, memory, and learning from text books, and demonstrating learning. This courses earns elective credit applicable to degree programs.

 

As long as you're going to be thinking anyway, think big.
--Donald Trump

 

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For more information, please contact James Nystrom at (503) 491-7509