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CCAC 0758: Language Skills Access 

Effective date

September 2015 

Department

College & Career Access 

School

Arts and Sciences 
 




Description

This skills-based Grade 10 level course ladders into academic Grade 11 English, GED or health science prep courses. Students develop vocabulary, reading comprehension, sentence structure, writing skills and critical thinking. Students read a variety of genres including current event articles, academic essays, issue related fiction and respond to the reading to develop paragraph writing skills. Students develop the academic language to understand, discuss and edit writing through intensive grammar workshops. 

Credits

0.0 

Year of study

Grade 10 Equivalency 

Prerequisites

None 

Corequisites

None 

Course Learning Outcomes

None

Prior Learning Assessment & Recognition (PLAR)

None 

Hours

Lecture, Online, Seminar, Tutorial: 96
Total Hours: 96
 

Instructional Strategies

 

Grading System

Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory 

Passing grade

 
 

Evaluation Plan

None

Course topics

None

Notes:

  • Course contents and descriptions, offerings and schedules are subject to change without notice.
  • Students are required to follow all College policies including ones that govern their educational experience at VCC. Policies are available on the VCC website at:
    https://www.vcc.ca/about/governance--policies/policies/.
  • To find out if there are existing transfer agreements for this course, visit the BC Transfer Guide at https://www.bctransferguide.ca.
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