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IDIS 100 College Writing
This course helps students develop and discipline their powers of written communication. Students will learn about the composing process--planning, shaping, writing, revising, editing, and proofreading--and how to apply this process to a series of college writing assignments that include personal narratives, informational summaries, persuasive essays, and documented research essays. ID 100 can be taken as an elective by students who feel a need for a composition course, and the course is required for students who demonstrate a need for a college-writing course (as determined by a timed writing sample, college admission scores, and high school record). Fall and Spring semesters.

IDIS 110 Academic Survival Skills
2 Credits
Student Survival Skills is a course designed to increase the student's success in college by assisting the student in obtaining necessary skills to reach his or her educational objectives. Topics in the course include time management, study techniques, beginning career decision-making, test-taking, reading for understanding and retention, note taking, college resources, decision-making, and memory techniques.

IDIS 115 College Preparation and Reading
2 Credits
This course presents reading and study techniques that will enhance the student's ability to read and retain college level material. The student will learn to implement general strategies for dealing with course material and strategies to improve reading rate and comprehension.

IDIS 120 SUCCESS Program Participation
0 Credits
The SUCCESS program assists students in reaching their full academic potential by regularly monitoring academic performance, improving study skills, and providing guidance necessary to complete college-level work. The SUCCESS program is conducted by the Academic Support Services department. Open only to students who are required to participate as a condition of initial or continued enrollment. 0 credit course. Repeatable.

IDIS 310 Language Analysis & Applied Linguistics
This course will familiarize students with different fields of applied linguistics and language analysis, including grammar, semantics, phonology, phonetics, discourse analysis, language acquisition, and social linguistics. This course is a requirement for ESL certification. Prerequisite: ENGL 290 or consent.

IDIS 363 Poverty and Social Justice
Designed for the general student, this course provides an introduction to the multifaceted and complex phenomenon of poverty and exploration of its relationship to social justice. Topics addressed include definitions of poverty and justice, the roots of poverty, its historical manifestations and structural influences, how it may be measured, and ways that it may be alleviated. Poverty is pervasive, affecting the human population on every continent and in every country throughout history. We ask why this is so and what we ought to do about it. We investigate past approaches, assess their effectiveness, and consider future options for reducing, and hopefully eliminating, poverty in the Third Millennium. Fulfills General Education Area 11 - Global Society Requirement. See General Education Expanded Course Description. Cross listed with PEAC 363.

IDIS 389 Special Topics in Interdivisional Studies
This course will concentrate on a topic pertinent to the current needs and interests of students. Primarily, it will focus on topics which cross divisional lines and will involve two or more interdivisional disciplines.

IDIS 494 Service-Learning Seminar
Students will participate in a community-service internship and share their experiences and personal reflections in an effort to increase student awareness of civic needs and community services; further emotional, intellectual, moral, social and personal growth; and develop community service skills and life-long civic responsibility. Open discussions, led by guest speakers from College and local community, will focus upon topics such as: an individual's responsibility to serve, community needs and services, the effects of service and the role of the served. Prerequisites: consent of the instructor and approval of the Associate Academic Dean.

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