RGTV 0197 - Regents’ Reading & Writing Skills

3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 0 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: None.
The Regents’ Reading & Writing Skills course is intended to ensure that all graduates of USG institutions posses certain minimum skills in reading & writing 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. Students will work on improving their own writing skills. This course is ONLY for those students who have never taken the Regents’ Examination but are in violation of the Regents’ guidelines, which require every student who has earned 45 semester hours and not passed the Regents’ Exam to enroll in a remediation course.