You will appreciate CHOICES if you want to improve your reading, writing, and study skills. Work with other students in a supportive atmosphere to gain essential skills for future academic success.

For TRIO Program students only.

 

This LC combines the content and process of mathematics with an examination of the skills specifically needed to read mathematics textbooks and take exams. We will work with a variety of strategies to help students succeed and understand the concepts from their math course.

Have trouble reading those word problems? Learn strategies to help you succeed in your math class as well as general reading comprehension for all of your college classes.

This course will concentrate on the Islamic response in the Middle East to globalization, imperialism, liberal democracy, secularism, and the role of women. We will also look at the West's response to Muslims in the Middle East.

Focusing primarily on writers of Mexican descent, this course will show how poetry, fiction, fold legends, corridos and drama define "America".

As students of philosophy and composition, we will study the most fundamental issues concerning reality, knowledge, and value. To do this, we will use our study of writing to develop a methodology of inquiry and a systematic and reasoned process of examination, which some call "the art of wondering."

 

This learning community will explore the nature of writing as it is practiced in the arts and humanities. Students who enroll in this English course must co-enroll in ENGL&101 and one of the following arts or humanities courses.

The LC combines the content and process of science with an examination of the skills specifically needed to read science textbooks and take exams - i.e. how to decipher science epistemology. (Please check prerequisites for courses). Lab fee $20.

Students will develop valuable public speaking skills in a supportive setting, while exploring contemporary human sexuality issues such as understanding one's own and others' sexual choices and behaviors, sexual health and safety, influences of media and much more. Hybrid course: some class time will be online.

This learning community combines Interpersonal Communication (CMST& 210) and Reading (AESL 103) to examine how conversational style, language and culture affect communication in relationships.

Gain skills, self-confidence, and a deepened awareness of the place that we live and the people who live here. In this course you will work with other students to improve your reading comprehension and vocabulary, writing ideas, sentence structure, and punctuation.

 

In mathemorphosis, students will explore and practice techniques for reducing math, speech, and/or test anxiety that may interfere with the learning process.

A survey of the history of the major world religions, with primary attention to their origins, basic structures, and roles in contemporary society.

Students will develop their college level writing skills and use them to articulate an understanding of the theatre in a cultural context, including scripts, performance theories and spaces, audience, actors, directors and designers.

Explore natural hazards such as volcanic and seismic activity in the Pacific Northwest, as well as resource issues such as petroleum use and global warming. Deepen your understanding of human dependence on the environment and raise your awareness of cultural, scientific, and ethical arguments.

An exploration of human behavior from multiple perspectives. Students, who must co-enroll in ENGL 104 and one of the listed social science classes, will be given time to write one outstanding research paper in their field of study. (Please check prerequisites for courses.)

This course will provide an introduction and practice for science majors in the kinds of writing and research used in their disciplines. Students must co-enroll in one of the science classes and its lab and ENGL& 101 or ENGL 103. Please check prerequisites for courses. Lab fee $20.

Humanity faces problems due to populations, global warming, environmental degradation, energy use, and transportation. We will explore the nature of these problems, and what solutions can be found using socio-economic and mathematical perspectives.

This learning community combines Interpersonal Communication (CMST& 210) and Reading (AESL 103) to examine how conversational style, language and culture affect communication in relationships.

This fully collaborative course will combine the studies of diseases and other factors and their linkage to the development of world cultures from the Middle Age to the early modern period. The course will examine how biological factors both positive and negative affected societies when they interacted. There is a weekly lab and hybrid element that will include an online discussion forum.

This federated course explores public speaking in the context of business and provides students the opportunity to gain experience presenting in front of an audience.

Learn to solve equations and present your ideas in writing in a supportive environment where thinking strategies for one class help you with other. It's math--the "write" way.

 

Reach for success as you improve your reading and communication skills. Learn to relate to others more effectively and apply helpful reading strategies to textbooks in this and other classes.

Students will develop their college writing skills and use them to articulate a deeper understanding of Psychology. Critical and creative writing and thinking will be explored, practiced and discussed. Hybrid course: some class time will be online.

Integrates English composition and a survey of Earth science. Students will learn how the Earth and planets work and how to write powerful essays about their new geo-knowledge.

This learning community combines Interpersonal Communication (CMST& 210) and Reading (AESL 103) to examine how conversational style, language and culture affect communication in relationships.

What factors account for the rich diversity of folk music worldwide? This course explores the relationship between geography and culture. In particular, we will examine the impact of place on musical traditions. The class will end with a visit to the Folklife Festival in Seattle in May. Hybrid class meets four days a week with two hours online.

Students will study how film technique and narrative structure communicate social perceptions of and attitudes toward the sciences. The two additional "lab" hours on Thursday are for screening films. Students must co-enroll; Lab fee $20.