AAD 111. Principles of Applied Academic Discourse. 3 Credit Hours.

This course is designed for students who wish to enhance their reading, writing, and critical thinking competence in the major discipline areas. Through intensive reading and writing in symbolics, empirics, esthetics, synoetics, ethics, and synoptics, students develop the strategies necessary for critical analysis, and effective reading and writing. The goal is to assist students in understanding the structure of knowledge and the process of disciplined inquiry.
Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor is required and first year and sophomore standing only
Session Cycle: Fall
Yearly Cycle: Annual.