Dev 006
This course covers grammar skills including the correct use of verb tenses and forms; simple, compound, and complex sentences; fragments, run-ons, and comma splices. Prerequisites: None.
Offered: A,W,SP,SU
2-0-2
Dev 007
This course covers basic punctuation skills including the correct use of commas, semicolons, colons, quotation marks, apostrophes, and other marks. Prerequisites: None.
Offered: A,W,SP,SU
2-0-2
Dev 015
For development of spelling skills through the use of phonics, personal word lists and basic spelling rules.
Offered: A,W,SP,SU
3-0-3
Dev 040
This course focuses on developing students' basic reading skills. Students will practice strategies for imporving reading rate and comprehension. Critical reading skills will be introduced through reading and responding to essays, keeping a journal and vocabulary notebook, and doing workbook activities.
Offered: A,W,SP,SU
4-2-5
Dev 041
This course combines elements of the writing process with the basic principles of writing clear, coherent, and well-developed paragraphs and short essays. Students will review rules of grammar usage and punctuation. Critical thinking skills will be developed through reading, class discussion, and journal writing. This course is open to students who place by Writing Test into DEV 041. It is not open to students with credit for any of the ENGL 100 series.
Offered: A,W,SP,SU
4-2-5
Dev 042
In this writing-intensive course, students will build on the composing, revising and editing strategies introduced in DEV 041. Through a review of individual DEV 041 writing portfolios, students' needs will be determined and instruction will address these needs. Students in this course will develop critical thinking skills through analyses of student and professional writing and by writing journals, essays, and responses to readings.
Prerequisite: DEV 041 and permission of instructor.
Offered: A,W,SP,SU
5-0-5
Dev 044
Critical Reading and Thinking is designed to help students develop higher-order thinking skills needed for academic study and career success. In this course, students will develop thinking and language abilities through discussion topics, reading and writing assignments that allow them to critique their self-knowledge, evaluate ideas, and recognize errors in thinking. The course is open to all Columbus State students.
Prerequisites: DEV 040 and DEV 041
Offered: A,W
3-0-3