The process of setting objectives for the reading component of an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) course at Suva University in Fiji is described. The course is taken concurrently with a history course whose reading component is integrated into the EAP curriculum and whose specified objectives were to be facilitated by the EAP instruction. The history teachers were not generally available for consultation but did provide a list of their own instructional objectives. The process described occurred in three stages. The first involved study of the assigned text to clarify objectives and expectations. From this stage, three kinds of objectives emerged: broad; those related to reading strategies; and those related to text type. The second stage focused on assessment of current assignments and development of assignments related to those objectives. In stage three, the readings were analyzed to determine whether students would require skills other than those already stated. This involved a genre analysis of history research articles to determine the basic patterns of text organization and language used. The objectives and assignments resulting from the first two stages are presented and the text analysis is summarized. A sample of genre analysis and a brief bibliography are appended. (MSE)