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LEARNING SKILLS

College of Arts and Letters

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PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

The Learning Skills Center and the Educational Opportunity Program offer courses, workshops, and individual assistance to students at all university levels. Program areas include composition, reading, study skills, mathematics, English for multilingual speakers, and special services for students with learning disabilities. In addition, internship courses are offered for students who want to tutor at the college level.

Courses numbered Learning Skills (LS) 1 through 49 are precollege level courses. These courses carry workload credit and may be counted only toward establishing full-time enrollment status. Precollege level course units are not applicable to the bachelor's degree. Courses numbered LS 50 through MLSK 199 carry regular bachelor's degree credits.

LS 39A, ALS 70A, and ALS 79A are specifically for Educational Opportunity Program students and are taught by Educational Opportunity Program faculty.

Course Repeat Policy

A student may only repeat one time the following Learning Skills Center courses: MLSK 7A, MLSK 7B, MLSK 10A, ENGL 15, ENGL 86, ENGL 87. (These courses may be taken a total of two times; a student enrolling in one of these a third time may be disenrolled.)

See the Sacramento State University Repeat Policy.

Requirements - Placement - Mathematics and English Courses

Incoming freshmen are required to take the English Placement Test (EPT) and/or Entry Level Mathematics Examination (ELM).

Mathematics

If you do not have credit for GE Math and are not exempt from the Entry Level Math (ELM) test, you must take the ELM test for mathematics course placement before enrolling in the University. (See ELM exemptions in the University Catalog.) The ELM exam places students into preparatory and GE level math courses. If you place into a preparatory class (pre-GE Area B4), you must enroll in the course in your first semester at Sacramento State and complete the preparatory course sequence within one year.

ELM Scores	Course Placement
34 or below	MLSK 7A and MLSK 7B (4 units each)
36 to 42	MLSK 10A (4 units)
44 to 48	MLSK 10A (4 units) or LS 10I (3 units) for students planning to take MATH 1 for GE Area B4
	MATH 9 (3 units) and MLSK 10X* (1 unit) for students planning to take a GE Area B4 course other than MATH 1
50 and above	GE Level for Area B4 (ELM equivalency requirement met)

*For students planning to take a GE Area B4 math course other than MATH 1, courses in this category are MATH 17, MATH 24, MATH 26A, MATH 26B, MATH 29, MATH 30, MATH 31, MATH 35, STAT 1, STAT 50. (Successful completion of a Diagnostic Exam is a prerequisite.) Contact the Mathematics Department, Brighton Hall 141, (916) 278-6534, for GE math information.

Notes:

• You may retake the ELM Test.
• You are not required to retake the ELM Test after completion of the course sequence.

English

If you do not have credit for GE English and are not exempt from the English Placement Test, you must take the EPT for English course placement before enrolling in the University. See EPT exemptions in the University Catalog. The EPT places students into their preparatory and GE English courses. If you are multilingual, your EPT will be evaluated to see if you could benefit from a writing course specially designed to meet your needs. If you place into a preparatory class, you must enroll in the course in your first semester at Sacramento State and complete the preparatory course sequence within one year.

EPT Scores	Course Placement	Multilingual Course
120-141	ENGL 15 and ENGL 1 or ENGL 10 and ENGL 11	ENGL 86 and ENGL 87 or ENGL 10M and ENGL 11M
142-145	ENGL 1	ENGL 87
	ENGL 5 and ENGL 1X	ENGL 5M
	ENGL 5	ENGL 5M

*If EPT score is 147-150, students must pass ENGL 5 or ENGL 5M (for multilingual students with at least a "C-" within the first year of enrollment).

The EDT places upper division multilingual students into the Graduation Writing Assessment Requirement (GWAR) sequence, ENGL 86 and ENGL 109M.

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