This course is designed to develop students' competence in critical reading (i.e. analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating) of various text types at an advanced level, emphasizing the use of reading strategies to extract salient points from a text and convert the information to verbal/diagrammatic summaries; find the underlying theme/concept/assumption; formulate hypotheses from the underlying theme, concept, evidence; identify inductive and deductive reasoning; recognize the writer s motive, tone, and style of writing; evaluate facts, opinions, bias, evidence, implications, definitions, hypotheses, generalization; and review articles/books.