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Courses Offered by the AEC

The Academic Enrichment Center offers the courses listed below which are intended to equip students to engage the learning process and to experience success with learning.

ENG 101 - Fundamentals of Writing

Intensive work of students' writing.  Students learn writing strategies for every phase of the writing process, compose a variety of texts, and practice standards for academic writing, including sentence style, grammar, and punctuation.  Offered fall semester.

IAS 180 – Applied Learning Techniques, Verbal

Emphasizes techniques for the improvement of study skills, listening and note taking, reading and comprehension.  The course meets two hours a week with a third reserved for extra ssignments.      All work is completed in the Academic Enrichment Center and this class may be repeated once.  Pass-fail basis only.

IAS 410 – Speed Reading

Emphasis on speed reading techniques and effective comprehension.  Meets during J-term.  Not open to freshmen.  Pass-fail.

MAT 100 - Mathematics Fundamentals

A study of the basic arithmetic operations, exponents, ratios, linear and quadratic equations, graphs, and story problems.  This course is specifically designed to assist those students who need help for the mathematics proficiency examination.  Pass-fail only.  Does not count toward a mathematics major or minor.