PLACEMENT INTO MATH AND ENGLISH COURSES WILL BE ENFORCED STARTING WITH FALL 2024 REGISTRATION. Summer 2024 classes will still have open placement.
Coconino Community College has several options for course placement into math and English courses as shown on the Multiple Measures Placement Grid below. The method that most students will use is their high school GPA and grades in math or English courses. In order to use this method of placement, the College must have an unofficial version of a student’s high school transcript. Please submit your high school transcript in the CCC application process, at the secure upload link below, or by dropping off a copy at the registration desk at the Lone Tree campus. To be sure you are following the correct math and English paths, see the math and English course progression charts below.
For assistance, make an appointment with your academic advisor.
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Multiple Measure Placement Grid
Math Course Progression Chart
English Course Progression Chart
Optional Developmental Math Courses
MAT 088 Pre-Algebra
Arithmetic concepts with integers, fractions, and decimals, including signed numbers.
Solving linear equations and evaluating algebraic expressions.
Upon completion of this course, student will be able to:
- perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and exponentiation on real numbers;
- use order of operations with real numbers;
- simplify and evaluate algebraic expressions;
- solve linear equations and check solutions;
- and solve application problems
MAT 091 Beginning Algebra
Basic algebraic concepts including operations with signed numbers, exponents and radicals,
linear equations and inequalities, polynomials, and graphing.
Recommended skills for students taking this class: MAT 088 course outcomes.
Upon completion of this course, student will be able to:
- perform the four basic operations, absolute values, and exponents on rational numbers;
- simplify algebraic expressions;
- solve linear equations;
- verify solutions of algebraic equations;
- use interval notation to describe solutions of inequalities;
- solve and graph linear inequalities;
- graph linear equations in two dimensions;
- solve systems of equations graphically and algebraically;
- simplify exponential expressions;
- perform basic operations on polynomial expressions;
- factor polynomials by removing the greatest common factor;
- factor polynomials by grouping;
- factor trinomials by using various methods including special forms;
- solve quadratic equations by factoring;
- and solve application problems.
Optional Developmental English Courses
ENG 095 Basic Reading and Writing Skills
The course focuses on principles of basic reading and writing skills through, vocabulary development, reading strategies, reading comprehension, recognizing reading and writing structures, grammar and punctuation, sentence structure, and concepts of paragraph and essay development.
Upon successful completion of this course, student will be able to:
- develop the ability to use vocabulary development strategies;
- demonstrate reading strategies for comprehension;
- use text annotation for active reading;
- identify and summarize main and supporting ideas in text;
- recognize textbook and writing structures;
- demonstrate standard usage of grammar and punctuation;
- practice the writing process;
- compose clear, effective sentences;
- organize and develop ideas into paragraphs and essays.
ENG 098 Integrated Reading and Writing Skills
To prepare students for the reading, writing, and critical thinking required in transfer-level English courses, or in the workplace, through extensive practice in critical reading and the writing process.
Recommended skills for students taking this class: ENG 095 course outcomes.
Upon successful completion of this course, student will be able to:
- Evaluate and infer information within texts.
- Utilize schemata to enhance reading comprehension.
- Analyze structures and interpret meanings of various texts.
- Identify and develop rhetorical patterns and organizational patterns.
- Identify the purpose of audience within texts.
- Develop a point of view on an issue using textual evidence.
- Develop writing in a variety of formats, such as essays, summary/response writing, and reflections.
- Compose writing controlled by an explicit thesis statement.
- Apply the formal writing process: prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, publishing, and reflection.
- Compose and organize written work to ensure coherence, sentence variety, clarity, and attention to audience.
- Demonstrate conventions of Standard Written English.
- Exhibit consistent tone and style.
- Document sources and format writing using the appropriate style guideline.