AF224-B Advanced Foundations for Learning (Winter 2027)

Position Summary

AF224 is the second part of the Strategies for Academic Success Program for students required to withdraw on academic grounds and seeking readmission. This course is designed to support continued development of core competencies with an emphasis on supporting student growth in effective critical reading skills. The course must incorporate engaged pedagogies appropriate to the active learning classroom and include assignments that allow for the incremental development of academic skills. By the end of this course students should have an increased ability to critically engage with any text and relate information that they read to other readings, ideas, and themes in other courses. A draft syllabus has been created for this course, to ensure consistency with the themes established in SASP-001, the first mandatory course in the program.

One of the most important skills for you to master as a university is reading. Reading takes on a central...