MIAMI DADE COLLEGENORTH CAMPUS

11380 NW 27 Avenue,Miami, Florida 33167

College Prep Department Geoffrey Philp, Chairperson, College Prep Department, 305-237-1267

Dawn Marache-Allen, Assistant to the Chairperson, 305-237-1280

Sylvia Hurtarte, Secretary, College Prep Department, 305-237-1269

Mark Johnson, Lab Coordinator, North Campus, 305-237-1649

Javier Duenas, Lab Coordinator, Hialeah, 305-237-8763

Liliana Ramirez, Lab Coordinator, SAIL Lab, 305-237-8046

The mission of the College Prep Department is to equip our students with the necessary communication skills to become

successful students and lifelong contributors to our community.

For more information, http://www.mdc.edu/north/collegeprep/Default.asp

College Prep Faculty

Marlene Cueto Sarah Garman Bert Lorenzo Robert Mathews Joann McNair Alda Noronha-Nimmo Stephanie Packer Maryann Pelikant Maritza Perez Gail Press Isabel Rodriguez-Dehmer Lois Smith Denton Tulloch Elizabeth Wilber Yuanzhong Zhang

For more information, http://www.mdc.edu/north/collegeprep/faculty.asp

College Prep Placement All students entering Miami

Dade College must take the CPT Reading, Sentence Skills, and Math Exams. The CPT Exam is mandated by the Florida Department of Education for all undergraduates entering tertiary education.

Students who score 83 points on the CPT Reading and Sentence Skills Exams are placed in ENC 1101

Depending on the Reading and Sentence Skills scores, students are placed in one of three levels of College Prep Reading and Writing.

• Students earn a single grade for each course (Lecture and Lab). In order to pass a course, the student must pass the course with an “S”—Successful. The other grades are “P”—Progress, and “U”—Unsatisfactory. To earn the grade of “S” students must complete satisfactory course work, lab work, and pass the final exams for each level.

• In ENC 0021 and REA 003, students must take the State Final Exams.

• After students have passed ENC 0021 and REA 003 with an “S” they may register for ENC 1101.

COLLEGE PREP LABS READING LAB

Students in reading classes complete independent assignments designed to enhance their learning of course material. 3 contact hours

WRITING LAB Students in reading classes complete independent

assignments designed to enhance their learning of course material. 3 contact hours

SAIL LAB An electronic classroom designed to assist students

with their reading, math and writing skills. The SAIL Lab is optional and is skills-based.

CPT PLACEMENT GUIDE FOR READING: STUDENTS ENTERING MDC BETWEEN 7/1/03 – 6/30/04

Reading Score Required Placement

20 – 50 REA 0001 (4 credits)

51 – 70 REA 0002 (4 credits)

71 – 82 REA 0003 (4 credits)

83 – 120 None Required

For more information, http://www.mdc.edu/testing_information/

CPT PLACEMENT GUIDE FOR WRITING: STUDENTS ENTERING MDC BETWEEN 7/1/03 – 6/30/04

WRITING SCORE REQUIRED PLACEMENT

20 – 50 ENC 0002 (4 Credits)

51 – 70 ENC 0020 (4 Credits)

71 – 82 ENC 0021 (4 Credits)

83 – 120 ENC 1101

For more information, http://www.mdc.edu/testing_information/

READING COURSES REA 0001 (4 Credits) REA 0002 (4 Credits) REA 0003 (4 Credits)

These courses build vocabulary skills, literal and critical comprehension skills, and successful reading strategies.

Writing Courses ENC0002 (4 credits)

Addresses effective sentence development

ENC0020 (4 credits) Addresses effective

sentences and paragraph development

ENC0021 (4 credits) Addresses effective

sentence, paragraph and essay development

Florida State Exit TestReading Skills

Main ideas Supporting details Purpose Organizational

patterns Connections within

and between sentences

Context clues Biased language

Tone Fact & Opinion Inferences &

conclusions Support for

reasoning

FLORIDA STATE EXIT TESTWriting Skills

Topic sentences Supporting details Sequence of ideas Relevant details Transitional devices Proper expressions Confused or misused

words/phrases Modifiers Coordination &

subordination Parallel structure Fragments, comma

splices, & fused sentences

Standard verb forms

Shifts in verb tense Subject and verb

agreement Pronoun and antecedent

agreement Pronoun shifts Clear pronoun reference Pronoun case forms Adjectives and adverbs Degrees of adjectives

and adverbs Standard spelling Standard punctuation Standard capitalization

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