Elizabethtown Community College - ECCo Yearbook (Elizabethtown, KY)

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an SPEECH Mini-skirts—midi-politics— maxi-problems. Our highly com- plex and extremely mobile soci- ety makes demands of all of us, the greatest and the least of which depend upon accurate communication. Through the Speech Program at ECC, the courses of study in public speak- ing, oral interpretation, and argumentation play an in- tegral and rewarding role in the college and the community. A course strongly recommended for all Education majors at ECC, Speech is encouraged as an excit- ing elective for all students.

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ENGLISH DEPARTMENT Both modern technology and traditional scholarships are combined to make the freshman English program one of the most exciting and effective in higher education today. In this ad- vanced-concept course, students meet for profes- sionally prepared and edited audio-tape lectures once each week. Following the tape session, stu- dents meet in small classes for group discussion of the principles of writing covered by each tape. And finally, for individual help, students attend writing laboratory sessions in which tutorial assistance is provided by experienced writing instructors. Un- like freshman English courses in most colleges, which tend to be either “introduction to literature” courses of “English for English majors courses, freshman English at ECC is an “English for every- body course. Such things as poetry, novels, creative writing—the usual “stuff” of English classes—these the interested student can pursue on his own: he won't find them in freshman English at Elizabethtown.

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12 After a semester in the reading laboratory, students can cover reading assignments in one-half or one-third the time it formerly took and remember more of what they read than they ever thought possible. In an age when knowledge doubles frequently and current theories become obsolete overnight, speed and accuracy in reading is the only way any college student can keep up with his own generation. Students in the Reading Center double or triple their reading speed in one semester without any loss in compre- hension. The semi-automated laboratories are available to any student who needs or wants to improve his reading skills. Programmed to accommodate readers with varying reading abilities, the laboratories concentrate on specific physiological aspects of reading which train students to read increasingly difficult material, while at the same time raising both comprehension and speed.