The Communication Skills Department of LaGuardia Community College prepares students with the necessary cognitive tools to read with understanding and retention the wide variety of college-level materials necessary to succeed in LaGuardia's degree programs, and/or to move on to four-year schools. The department is committed to providing the student with the intellectual framework, the background knowledge and critical reading and thinking skills necessary to become an educated person in society.

The focus of a CSE course is exposition. Our courses are preparation for the introductory courses in different disciplines students must take for their majors. Thus we try to give students background and skills that they can use to read their textbooks, to listen to class lectures, and write class assignments. Our classes consist of lively discussions, arguments, careful listening and thinking. Our work-load is heavy - for instructors as well as students. Students tell us they put in more hours in our classes than in most of their other college classes, and they use what they are studying in reading class - in their other classes, in their future careers and in their lives as readers.

For more information about our curriculum, and the projects that our faculty members are actively involved in, feel free to contact us at:

31-10 Thomson Avenue, Room E 115
Long Island City, NY 11101
718-482-5625

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