The Long Beach City College Reading and Teacher Preparation Department offer a variety of courses to help students successfully navigate the rigorous demands of college-level academic texts. Our classes focus on vocabulary development, reading comprehension, and critical analysis and interpretation while students engage in individual and collaborative learning environments. Our program curriculum fosters critical and strategic reading and thinking to enhance student confidence, concentration, and understanding of the text in a variety of formats and genres. Our dedicated faculty empower students for success across academic disciplines, careers, and lifelong learning.


Adult Literacy - Certificate of Competency

This program equips students with essential literacy skills and strategies with an emphasis on reading, writing, listening, and speaking so that students are able to comprehend, analyze and respond to a variety of text. Upon completing the program, students can earn a Certificate of Competency.

Reading in the Health Sciences - Certificate of Completion

This program will provide students with an opportunity to prepare for success in health science programs. Students will be supported by a reading instructor and develop critical reading skills to understand and apply the concepts presented in health science textbooks. Students will also learn how to monitor and clarify their thinking while taking written and multiple-choice assessments. Upon successful completion students will be equipped to take health science courses, complete necessary assessments such as ATI TEAS, and apply study habits to their health science courses at LBCC and beyond. Students will be required to take BIO 602 Introduction to Health Career Sciences and READ 602 Reading for Health Career Sciences simultaneously.

READ 602 may also be paired with Anatomy classes to support your learning.