Developmental Flyer and Letter Notice to Students (Spring 2017)

From: "Redmond, Rodney W."
Date: Wednesday, March 22, 2017 at 2:20 PM
Subject: Developmental Flyer and Letter Notice to Students

As you may be aware, we will start offering the IERW courses (re-designed developmental English and Reading courses) this fall. Some students may not have completed the current stand-alone developmental courses. Hence, I am sending another copy of the notice that my office will send to developmental English and Reading students who have started their developmental English and/or developmental reading courses but have not completed the sequence. You may see students starting to come in with a copy of this notice seeking advising. These students should be encouraged to register for the next course in their developmental English and reading sequence, one of the stand-alone courses. They are not eligible for the new IERW courses. We do not want students to repeat information they may have already mastered, which is why we are encouraging them to complete the stand alone course sequence.

Please share with the faculty in your departments.

Thanks in advance for your continued support.

Rodney

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March 22, 2017

Dear Montgomery College Student:

You have placed into one or more of the following required developmental English or reading courses:

            Basic English I (ENGL 001)

            Basic English II (ENGL 002)

            College Reading Skills I (READ 095)

            College Reading Skills II (READ 099)

We are writing to encourage you to complete all of your required developmental English or reading courses from this list by the end of the spring 2019 semester.

We are urging you to do this because the English and Reading Department will be changing these courses soon. Beginning in the fall 2017 semester, Basic English I and College Reading Skills I will be combined into one course. Basic English II and College Reading Skills II will also become one course.

If you have already taken one of the "stand-alone" courses (such as Basic English I), you might not need one of these larger, combined courses that would repeat material you have already studied. We prefer that you complete the one course your need rather than enroll in a course that combines two courses, one of which you may not need.

To be sure you will not have to repeat material you have already studied, we are continuing to offer the "stand-alone" courses –ENGL 001, ENGL 002, READ 095, and READ 099—but only through the spring 2019 semester. After the end of spring 2019, these courses will no longer be available.

Please enroll now to complete your required developmental English or reading courses. Do not wait; a limited number of these courses will be offered each semester, and none of them will be offered after spring 2019.

Feel free to speak with your English or reading professor, or a counselor, if you have any questions about this opportunity.

We wish you continued success.

Regards,

Dr. Rodney Redmond

Rodney Redmond, Ed.D.

Dean of English and Reading

Montgomery College

51 Mannakee Street

Rockville, Maryland 20850