What Support Courses Can I Take?
Students may register for first-level transfer courses in English and Mathematics regardless of placement or current enrollment in a pre-transfer level English and/or Mathematics course.
Students do not need to submit any documentation (e.g. high school transcripts, previous placement scores, etc.) in order to receive first-level transfer English and Mathematics placement. For further information on how students are placed, please refer to our English & Math Placement Rules.
If you feel, or you have been told, you might need extra support for a transfer-level course based on your high school experience, please see the list of support options below.
Co-requisite Support Options:
Math A090: Support for Liberal Arts Math
A concurrent support course for Math A100, Liberal Arts Mathematics, designed to review prerequisite skills necessary for success. Topics include operations with real numbers, conversion between decimals, percents and fractions, selected algebraic topics essential to Liberal Arts Mathematics, the graph of a line, and problem-solving strategies.
Math A091: Support for College Algebra
A concurrent support course for Math A115, College Algebra, designed to review prerequisite skills necessary for success. Topics include operations with real numbers, an introduction to polynomial, operations with rational and radical expressions, an introduction to polynomials, and solutions to linear equations and inequalities.
Math A092: Support for Trigonometry
A concurrent support course designed to review prerequisite topics necessary for success in Math A120, Trigonometry, covering operations with real numbers, relations and functions, systems of linear equations, factoring, rational expressions, quadratic equations, conic sections, and basic geometry.
Math A096: Support for Intro to Statistics
A concurrent support course for Math A160, Introduction to Statistics, designed to review prerequisite skills necessary for success. Topics include operations with real numbers, percents, ratios and proportions, selected algebraic topics essential to statistics, the graph of a line, and problem-solving strategies.
Non-Credit Support Options:
Math A004N: Math Jam Basic Math Computational Skills
This is a noncredit course focusing on mastering key arithmetic topics. These topics include operations with whole numbers, operations with decimals, introduction to percents, introduction to integers, introduction to fractions, introduction to ratios and proportions, introduction to statistics and an introduction to measurement and basic geometry.
Math A082N: Math Jam for STEM Pathway
This is a noncredit preparation course designed to review prerequisite topics necessary for success in Math A115 or Math A120 covering operations with real numbers, relations and functions, systems of linear equations, factoring, rational expressions, radical equations, quadratic equations, exponential and logarithmic equations, conic sections, and basic geometry.
Math A086N: Math Jam for SLAM Pathway
This is a noncredit preparation course for Math A100 and MATH A160, designed to review prerequisite skills necessary for success. Topics include operations with real numbers, conversion between decimals, percents, and fractions, selected algebraic topics, the graph of a line, and problem-solving strategies.
Non-Credit Support Options:
English A001N: Grammar within Reach
This noncredit course takes community members and college students through a review of grammar fundamentals and provides an opportunity to practice precise grammar and varied sentence styles that are immediately applicable to writing for the workplace and everyday life and for writing in college classes. This noncredit course can be paired with another English noncredit course for a certificate of competency.
English A002N: Reading Tough Texts
This noncredit course supports students and community members in practicing fundamental reading and study strategies necessary for college success and success in the workplace and community at large by practicing strategies including annotating and summarizing texts, finding the main idea and identifying supporting details, identifying the larger organizational strategy and stylistic devices used to support the claims and main points in a text.
This noncredit course can be paired with another English noncredit course for a certificate of competency.
English A003N: Paragraphs for Many Purposes
This non-credit course takes students through the process of creating cohesive, organized, college-level paragraphs and essay sections in building essays for a variety of purposes and to be used for writing across many disciplines.
This noncredit course can be paired with another English noncredit course for a certificate of competency.
English A004N: Building a College Essay
This noncredit course will take students through the process of building a single, focused college essay--from the planning and outlining stage, to creating a thesis or claim, to gathering support and evidence and integrating source material, then formatting per MLA guidelines.
This noncredit course can be paired with another English noncredit course for a certificate of competency.
English A006N: 100 Reinforcement
This non-credit course will help students build various skills required in their English 100 course. These skills include sentence grammar, sentence fluency, paragraph and essay structure, reading comprehension, source integration, and research writing.
ESL A047N: ESL Support for Freshman Composition - Spelling Techniques
This course will help students to learn basic spelling patterns of English by focusing on short and long vowels, consonants, consonant blends, prefixes, suffixes, homonyms, and homophones. Students will practice and memorize some of the more common words in English in addition to discussing and identifying some common mistakes that English language learners make in spelling. By learning the sounds of English, students will also improve pronunciation.
ESL A048N: ESL Support for Freshman Composition - Advanced Pronunciation
This course is for ESL students at an advanced level of oral expression and pronunciation. It provides instruction in refining pronunciation skills in order to communicate as per the conventions of academic English in order to be able to succeed in Freshman Composition and other college-level courses.
ESL A049N: ESL Support for Freshman Composition - Advanced Grammar Noncredit
This course is designed to enhance the knowledge and usage of advanced English grammar and to improve grammatical accuracy in writing and to develop strong editing skills for advanced second-language students. Individual attention is given to sentence structure and usage problems (verb tenses, passive voice, word and verb forms) needed for English 100 and other college-level courses.