This course is designed to flow as a self-paced workshop which integrates critical reading and transformative writing skills to support learners with comprehending college-texts, effectively.

In order to develop personal reading skills and a high capacity to understand and create complex, yet, organized forms of literature, learners will be guided on how to implement reading strategies to critically analyze the use of grammar, punctuation, organization, and vocabulary within correlating theory, art, articles, book excerpts, digital media, visual culture displays, and other forms of literature.

Expected learning outcomes include the ability to critically respond to literature through academic discourse sessions, art-making, and writing.

By the end of the course, learners will develop and present a multimodal personal reading guide and reflective essay project that shows how they were able to self-regulate and grow their learning by implementing and reflecting on each reading strategy.

This work will enable learners to extend and transfer their ability to critically engage with literature beyond the course.

This course is designed to develop the learners’ command of English Language Arts as an instrument of learning and expression, and it focuses on research and writing the documented essay.

Students will learn how to use self-regulatory processes such as rubric checklists and assessment trackers, as well as, other close reading skills that may emerge as necessary to learn as they complete the research writing process.

Expected learning outcomes include the ability to critically respond to literature through academic discourse, art-making, and writing.

By the end of the course, learners will deliver a written and visual presentation of research-based analysis of a novel. To further encourage transform of learners’ reading and writing skills, a metacognitive learning log of the research writing process will be submitted with the final exam.

This work will enable learners to extend and transfer their ability to critically engage with literature and prepare them for creative indepdence to complete research beyond the course.