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Curiosity, creative self-expression, honest research, and the courage to meet new challenges in the Information Age comprise our keystone. Every person in class is a scholar in residence, their voice unique, their ideas respected. We are building real-time, real-life skills for people living in the 21st Century. We want to make an impact on the world and make ourselves heard.

Curiosity, creative self-expression, honest research, and the courage to meet new challenges in the Information Age comprise our keystone. Every person in class is a scholar in residence, their voice unique, their ideas respected. We are building real-time, real-life skills for people living in the 21st Century. We want to make an impact on the world and make ourselves heard.

This is a course in effective essay writing, academic reading and basic research techniques including use of the library. Readings are assigned for classroom discussion and as a basis for essay writing. Simultaneously, we will focus on language enhancement. This co-requisite focuses on reading comprehension; critical thinking; the structured writing process; rhetorical awareness, writing in diverse genres, grammar, mechanics and cross-cultural rhetoric and communication; listening and spoken communicative competence.

This is a course in effective essay writing, academic reading and basic research techniques including use of the library. Readings are assigned for classroom discussion and as a basis for essay writing. Simultaneously, we will focus on language enhancement. This co-requisite focuses on reading comprehension; critical thinking; the structured writing process; rhetorical awareness, writing in diverse genres, grammar, mechanics and cross-cultural rhetoric and communication; listening and spoken communicative competence.