ENG 050 Basic Reading and Writing
5 Hours
Prerequisites: None
This course helps students gain confidence in their reading, speaking, and writing abilities. Students develop strategies to improve comprehension of a wide variety of reading materials, including magazines, newspapers, fiction and nonfiction books, and textbooks. They are encouraged to communicate their ideas effectively through group and class discussions and through maintaining reading and writing logs. Students are also introduced to the basic principles of expository writing.
ENG 052 Developmental Writing Skills
5 Hours
Prerequisites: None
Developmental writing enables students to gain confidence in their writing ability through journal writing, reacting to personal reading, and writing for a variety of purposes. Students also develop peer-revising skills that enable them to recognize strengths and weaknesses in their own and other’s writings. While this course is not designed for transfer, it prepares students to succeed in English 101 and assist them in developing the communication skills they will need in their chosen occupational field. Students must earn a grade of “C” or better in order to progress to ENG 101.
ENG 053 Developmental Reading Skills
3 Hours
Prerequisites: None
This is a “slice of life” approach which involves team-teaching instructors and students in a lively and immediate application of the reading process. Students will learn previewing, underlining, marginal note-taking, locating, and defining key concepts, mapping, and summarizing. In addition, students enrolling in the course will learn to manage time, to take effective classroom notes, and to prepare for and take objective and essay examinations. Ten weeks of the course will be devoted to the application of these strategies with the assistance of two content-area instructions. Students must earn a grade of “C” or better in order to progress to content-area courses involving intensive reading.
Mathematics
MAT 051 Pre-Algebra
4 Hours
Prerequisites: None
This course is designed as a review of the basic operations of arithmetic and an introduction to algebra. This course is not designed for college transfer. This course will cover the integers, fractions and decimals; ratio, proportion and percents; prime numbers, factoring; exponents; and solving equations. The student must earn a grade of “C” or better in order to enroll in MAT 052. In addition, the student will need to enroll in MAT 052, and MAT 062 before progression to transfer level mathematics courses.
MAT 052 Basic Algebra
4 Hours
Prerequisites: MAT 051 or equivalent
This course is designed for students with less than one year of high school algebra. It is not designed for college transfer. This course covers the properties of real numbers; solving equations and inequalities in one variable; operations with polynomials in one variable as well as introduction to polynomials in several variables; factoring polynomials leading to solving quadratic equations by factoring; operations with rational expressions and solving rational equations; graphing linear equations in two variables; and radical notation including solving radical equations. The student must earn a “C” or better in order to enroll in MAT 062. In addition, the student will need to enroll in MAT 062 before progression to transfer level mathematics courses.
MAT 061 Basic Euclidean Geometry
3 Hours
Prerequisites: MAT 052 or one year of high school algebra with “C” or better
This course is designed for students who did not successfully complete at least one year of Euclidean geometry at the secondary level and therefore must fill this deficiency prior to completing the mathematics requirement for their degree from John A. Logan College. This course is not designed for college transfer. In order to help students think deductively, this course will emphasize logic reasoning, using geometric concepts and relationships as the vehicle to meet this goal. Topics include reasoning, basic logic theory, definitions, axioms, proofs, constructions, parallel lines, triangle congruency, and similarity theorems, circles, and area of polygons and circles. The ultimate purpose of this course is to help students learn to apply the principles of geometry, as well as enable them to develop logical and deductive thinking.
MAT 062 Intermediate Algebra
5 Hours
Prerequisites: MAT 052 or equivalent
This course is designed for students with less than two years of high school algebra. It is not designed for college transfer. This course will cover linear equations and inequalities; systems of equations; exponents, roots, and powers; quadratic equations and graphs; exponential and logarithmic functions. Students must earn a grade of “C” or better in order to progress to transfer level mathematics.