Course List

Overall Learning Objectives

(Student Outcomes)

Course Requirements

EN 101

EN 300

To compose interdisciplinary formal and informal essays in Standard American English (SAE) in standard writing formats utilizing computer skills including a minimum of one research-based, documented essay.

To demonstrate analytical and critical thinking skills in writing and research including the use of technological sources.

As sequential composition courses that work together to produce a student with effective writing skills, EN 101 and 300 will:

• Teach the phases of the writing process (planning, drafting and editing), including the creation of thesis statements, paragraphs and topic sentences, introductions and conclusions.
• Include peer reviews and workshops, with at least one individual student conference with the professor.
• Generate texts using different rhetorical modes with no more than one essay that is literature-based.
• Address gender issues related to the use of language.
• Be taught by a qualified instructor with a minimum of 18 graduate hours in English or a related field as approved by the Humanities Division Head.

EN 101 will:

• Introduce the student to basic research skills to include various technological sources.
• Provide MLA documentation style.
• Develop strategies for reading and for evaluation of sources.
• Compose a minimum of five individual writing assignments with 4000 words overall.
• Expose students to a variety of academic strategies in writing and research within an interdisciplinary classroom.

EN 300 will:

·        Insure effective use of advanced research skills within students’ individual discipline(s) using a variety of technological sources.

·        Provide documentation style(s) within the student’s chosen major or career field.

·        Develop critical thinking strategies for reading and for thinking and for evaluating in the students’ individual discipline.

·        Compose a minimum of five individual writing assignments with 5000 words overall.

·        Develop the understanding that different rhetorical strategies and endeavors are valid in different academic fields.