1321 Park St.
(across from Younker Hall)

Director:
Joan Mohan

641-269-3118
mohanj@grinnell.edu

READING LAB (RED 100) COURSE SYLLABUS

During the first half of the semester, students will meet in small groups, to consider a variety of reading and study skills topics.

• Time Management
  --How to construct REALISTIC daily, weekly, monthly schedules
  --PROCRASTINATION: Causes? Cures?
  
  
• Vocabulary Assignment
  --What's the most NATURAL way to expand your vocabulary?
  
  
• How to Read Faster and Better: Reading More Efficiently
  --Several discussions on how to evolve into more critical and flexible readers, with emphasis throughout on building concentration, comprehension, memory, and rate (four primary goals for most reading lab students).
  
  
• Test Preparation
  -- What can students learn from educational psychology about absorbing and retaining information?
  --What study methods equip students to REHEARSE for tests?
  --Test anxiety?
  
  
• Students are encouraged to suggest additional topics