Fast-Track Boot Camp Refreshers

English Fast-Track Boot Camps are free non-credit refresher workshops that provide students with the necessary skills to build a strong English foundation and to potentially advance to higher-level English courses. Students will strengthen critical reading skills, including text features and organization. Students will sharpen grammar and mechanics for college-level writing. To demonstrate writing skills, students are expected to complete original summaries and argumentative essays for different rhetorical situations (without AI software). Students are also required to attend at least 75% of class sessions or 75% of assignments. Upon successful completion, students will receive one-on-one advising to register for the appropriate English course.

Recruitment for this workshop should be based on placement measures and eligibility criteria, including students who place into developmental English courses, co-requisite students who express concerns about their reading or writing skills, and those identified through multiple measures or faculty/staff recommendations.

EXPECTED OUTCOMES
English Boot Camps provide students with the critical reading and writing skills required for success in the subsequent English course. At the completion of the Boot Camp, students will be able to:

• Understand and apply critical reading skills to college-level texts
• Thoughtfully respond to college-level texts
• Understand and apply the writing process to summaries and argumentative essays
• Effectively apply basic MLA formatting to writing
• Properly integrate source material into written work
• Develop effective use of grammar and mechanics in written work
• Learn and apply technology skills in Blackboard and Microsoft programs

Math 0900 Fast-Track Boot Camps are free non-credit refresher workshops designed for any student whose math pathway requires an algebra course/prerequisite. The workshops review the necessary algebraic skills to strengthen the student’s math foundation and allow the student to potentially advance to a higher-level math course. These workshops provide students with a comprehensive review of elementary algebra concepts through structured practice and problem-solving activities.  Students will explore expressions, equations, and inequalities while applying the properties of the real number system. Topics include solving and graphing linear equations and simple inequalities, formulating equations from real-world situations, an introduction to functions, rules of exponents, and operations on polynomials. Upon successful completion of the workshop, students will be given the option to complete a proctored placement assessment. Following the placement assessment, students will receive one-on-one advising to ensure they are enrolled in the appropriate math course.

Recruitment for this workshop should be based on ALEKS PPL Scores (14-25) and/or using multiple measures and faculty or staff recommendation.

EXPECTED OUTCOMES
Upon completion of the Math 0900 Boot Camp, the student should be able to:

• Perform operations on rational numbers
• Write and perform operations on variable expressions
• Write and solve linear equations and inequalities
• Graph linear equations and inequalities
• Perform operations on polynomial expressions
• Understand the basic functions of a graphing calculator