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  • 1.00 Credits

    Western Wyoming Community College recognizes that students face unique challenges as they begin their college education. Learning to balance college, home life, sports, culture, and a variety of other factors is critical to the student's success. This course is designed to teach incoming students how to develop priorities, build organizational and study skills, enhance communication, take responsibility for their learning, understand resources available to them, and learn to positively balance their commitments. Woven throughout the course are discussions and exercises related to reading, note taking, test taking and other success strategies.
  • 1.00 Credits

    This course will provide beginning instruction and hands-on practical experiences to accomplish an introductory review of online learning strategies. Students will participate in the course using Western's online course management system. All class assignments, activities, tests, and discussions, whether individual or within a group, will be conducted in an asynchronous online environment. Students will navigate the learning management system, self-assess their specific learning style, develop online communication skills, understand technology's role in online learning, and create a lasting framework for continued online learning success in any academic discipline.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This is an English as a Second Language course for non-native speakers. This course covers the fundamentals of listening and speaking skills and the application of these skills in both academic and non-academic settings. While this course is designed to aid students who are learning English conversation, students will learn skills that readily transfer to writing, reading, and communication in all college course specific subjects, and in workplace and everyday settings. This course is required for students testing at levels 4 through 8 on the Oral BEST Plus test.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This is an English as a Second Language course for non-native speakers. This course emphasizes writing better sentences and paragraphs through focus on and practice with the elements of a good paragraph. The process of putting paragraphs into an essay will be introduced. Each unit covered consists of: example paragraphs, grammar for writing, activities, building better vocabulary, tips for writers, building better sentences, original writing, peer editing, and timed writing. The grammar text focuses on key grammatical and lexical elements learners need to become more successful academic writers with emphasis on the most common errors found in student writing and with a variety of editing activities designed to improve student writing and accuracy.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This is an English as a Second Language course for non-native speakers. This course covers the fundamentals of reading and vocabulary skills and the application of these skills to assist non-native and international students in becoming more efficient readers in the academic setting.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This is an English as a Second Language course for non-native speakers. This course is designed to provide non-native students with the opportunity to learn and practice speaking, listening, and notetaking skills, and to develop overall fluency in English. This course prepares students for entry into and the expectations of higher level college classes.
  • 2.00 Credits

    This is an English as a Second Language course for non-native speakers. Culture is an integral part of language learning and affects all aspects of learning. This course will aid students in building useful, comfortable communication skills. Contemporary American culture will be taught through the exploration of everyday experiences and situations such as meeting and getting to know people, participating in social events, attending school, food and eating out, and using current topics about safety issues and the law.
  • 1.00 Credits

    Students learn to increase their pace of reading without sacrificing understanding. This course is designed for those students who already have good comprehension and vocabulary skills.
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course introduces students to the demands and conventions of academic reading, inquiry and analysis in tandem with critical and creative thinking. Critical reading focuses on analyzing texts, synthesizing materials, recognizing valid inferences, composing accurate summaries, and discerning main ideas. In addition, critical thinking focuses on evaluating hypotheses, determining relevance of information, determining whether evidence supports the main point, evaluating data for consistency, and recognizing flaws and inconsistencies in an argument. Conclusions drawn from information will be evaluated on credibility, accuracy, and reliability. Thus, Critical Reading/Critical Thinking's purpose is to create more skillful, better-prepared thinkers for college and for the workplace.
  • 1.00 Credits

    This course is recommended for students who have good reading skills and want to expand their knowledge of words.