ENGL& 101 - English Composition I

Credits: 5
Variable Credit Course: No

Lecture Hours: 55
Lab Hours: 0
Worksite/Clinical Hours: 0
Other Hours (LIA/Internships): 0

Course Description: The study of fundamental writing skills and varied writing strategies leading to the planning, organizing, writing, and revising of academic essays.

Prerequisite: ENGL 099 with a C or higher (or placement into ENGL& 101).
Distribution Requirements:

Communication

General Education Requirements:

Fulfills Communicate General Education Requirement

Meets FQE Requirement: No
Integrative Experience Requirement: No

Student Learning Outcomes

Analyze challenging and/or conflicting ideas from diverse texts using perspectives sensitive to power, privilege, equity, or empathy.
Synthesize multiple sources to support an answer, claim, or thesis.
Formulate responses to works in the service of developing the student’s own view.
Implement a personalized writing process that includes a conscious use of prewriting, planning, writing, and rewriting.
Illustrate the use of metacognition throughout the writing process.
Demonstrate effective use of sources as evidence by supporting complex claims and sub-claims in essays and written assignments.
Organize ideas to communicate effectively.
Produce writing that is fluid and free of spelling and syntax errors and communicates ideas clearly.

Course Contents

Analyze challenging and/or conflicting ideas from diverse texts using perspectives sensitive to power, privilege, equity, or empathy.
Synthesize multiple sources to support an answer, claim, or thesis.
Formulate responses to works in the service of developing the student’s own view.
Implement a personalized writing process that includes a conscious use of prewriting, planning, writing, and rewriting.
Illustrate the use of metacognition throughout the writing process.
Demonstrate effective use of sources as evidence by supporting complex claims and sub-claims in essays and written assignments.
Organize ideas to communicate effectively.
Produce writing that is fluid and free of spelling and syntax errors and communicates ideas clearly.

Instructional Units: 5