Basic Skills Courses

Basic skills courses are designed to impart fundamental academic skills that enable academic success, student development, and lifelong learning. These courses are designed to ensure that students develop the skills necessary to succeed in college.

Placement testing for writing, quantitative skills, and language proficiency occurs during new student orientation, which takes place immediately before the beginning of students’ first study term on campus. In the event students’ placement tests indicate they do not meet the minimum college-level requirements, students must enroll in the appropriate basic math or basic writing course in the following time frame: ENG 101 must be taken in the first term of enrollment, and MATH 090 must be taken within the first three terms of enrollment. If either or both courses are not successfully completed, they must immediately be repeated the following quarter. Upon successful completion of these courses, a student would then proceed to take courses that satisfy the writing and quantitative requirements.

Basic Skills Courses

ENG 101 English Composition Plus

MATH 090 College Math Skills

ENG 101 is a college-level course that generates college credit, and its minimum passing grade is a C. While MATH 090 is below college level, and thus cannot generate college credit and is graded P/NP, based on the placement exams students take during MATH 090, students may be able to earn college credit by placement in mathematics (see Mathematics Credit by Examination, page 136)