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EN 090 Reading/Study Skills (F/S/SU)
3 Semester Hours
Required for students with ACT reading score less than 17 or ACCUPLACER reading comprehension score less than 79.
This course introduces students to the following skills: reading comprehension, vocabulary building, critical thinking, time management, note-taking, outlining, studying, and test-taking.

EN 099 Beginning Composition (F/S/SU)
4 Semester Hours
Required for students with ACT English score less than 18 or ACCUPLACER sentence skills score less than 88.
Beginning Composition allows students to develop entry-level college composition skills, including the writing of complete sentences, well-developed paragraphs, and well-organized essays. It emphasizes basic grammar, mechanics, and usage.

MT 090 Basic Mathematics (F/S/SU)
3 Semester Hours
Required for students with ACT math score less than 16 or ACCUPLACER arithmetic score less than 85.
This course allows students to improve basic mathematical skills. Topics include addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of whole numbers, fractions, decimals, and percentages.

MT 095 Introductory Algebra I (F)
3 Semester Hours
Prerequisite: MT 090 if required. Required for students with an ACT math score less than 19 or an ACCUPLACER elementary algebra score of less than 84. MT 095 is the first course of a two-course sequence along with MT 096. However, students with acceptable scores on Southern’s Introductory Algebra placement test will have the option of taking MT 099 instead of MT 095 and MT 096.
A review of basic concepts of algebra, this course is designed to prepare students for college mathematics applications. Topics include real number operations, reading, writing, and evaluating algebraic expressions, solving and graphing linear equations and inequalities. Other topics include adding, subtracting multiplying, and dividing polynomial expression and using the power rules of integer exponents.

MT 096 Introductory Algebra II (S)
3 Semester Hours
Prerequisite: Required for students with an ACT math score of less than 19 or an ACCUPLACER elementary algebra score of less than 84. MT 096 is the second course of a two-course sequence along with MT 095. However, students with acceptable scores on Southern’s Introductory Algebra placement test will have the option of taking MT 099 instead of MT 095 and MT 096.
Introductory Algebra II is a review of basic concepts of algebra, this course is designed to prepare students for college mathematics applications. Topics include factoring, solving quadratic equations and systems of linear equations, and simplifying radicals and rational expressions.

MT 097 Bridge to Algebra (O)
1-3 Semester Hours
Prerequisite: MT 090 or ACT math score of 16 or above or ACCUPLACER arithmetic score of 85 or above.
Suggested (not required) for students with an ACT math score of less than 16 or an ACCUPLACER arithmetic score of less than 85 and who are also required to take MT099. It should be sequenced between MT090 and MT099. This prepatory course is designed to provide a bridge between the skills learned in Basic Mathematics and those developed in Introductory Algebra. It covers pre-algebra topics such as performing real number operations, solving linear equations and inequalities, and translating word statements to expressions and equations.

MT 099 Introductory Algebra (F/S/SU)
4 Semester Hours
Prerequisite: MT 090 if required.
Required for students with ACT math score less than 19 or ACCUPLACER elementary algebra score less than 84.
A review of basic concepts of algebra, this course is designed to prepare students for college mathematics applications. Topics include real number operations, factoring, solving equations and inequalities, and graphing linear equations.

 

 

 

 

 

Last Update - 05/24/2007

 
 
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