CP CoursesIntroductory (General Education Writing Skills Requirement)
Placement | Schedules | Objectives- English 101 | Writing 1
First semester of the General Education Writing Skills Requirement for students required to take both ENG 101 and ENG 201. Practice in developing essays with variable emphases on purpose, subject, audience, persuasion, in constructing mature sentences and paragraphs, and in revising. Introduces documenting and writing from sources. Twenty-five pages of graded, revised writing, excluding first drafts, exercises, and quizzes. Students may not receive credit for both ENG 101 and ESL 407.
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Fulfills the General Education Writing Skills Requirement. ENG 102 is a condensed, one-semester version of the writing course sequence for students with SAT Verbal scores of 580-720 or ACT scores of 27-31. Reviews essay, paragraph, and sentence development during the first half of the semester. Conceptualizing and conducting original research, culminating in a major research essay using both library and online materials during the second half of the semester. Twenty-five pages of graded, revised writing, excluding first drafts, exercises, and quizzes.
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Second semester of the General Education Writing Skills Requirement for students required to take both ENG 101 and ENG 201. ENG 201 also fulfills the Humanities requirement of General Education. Practice in developing complex interpretations of human experience and values as represented in various media. Conceptualizing and conducting original research, culminating in a major research essay using both library and online materials. Twenty-five pages of graded, revised writing, excluding first drafts, exercises, and quizzes. Students may not receive credit for both ENG 201 and ESL 408. Please note: the online registration system may prevent certain students from automatically registering. Do not "give up" and register for 102! Please visit the placement page for instructions.
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Advanced and Affiliated Courses
- English 202 | Advanced Writing: Technical
Specialized styles of writing including technical, academic, journalistic, and scientific writing. Description of individual sections available each semester prior to registration.
- English 393 | Advanced Non-Fiction Prose Workshop
This is a writing workshop for students interested in producing creative non-fiction. Creative non-fiction is an incredibly broad term, but one that we will generally take to mean factual, well-researched writing produced for a general, non-specialist audience that can include genres as diverse as history, biography, autobiography, travel-writing, popular science, politics, economics, investigative reporting, memoir, and the essay. From the beginning of the workshop, students will be encouraged to find a topic and develop it by working on those skills necessary to produce engaging non-fiction, many of which are similar to those required by the novelist--structuring the story, establishing perspective, narrative voice, setting the scene, characterization (of people, objects, places, and ideas)--as well as those specific to non-fiction--research, using databases and archives, presenting facts, etc. This class requires continual writing by students towards their final project, as well as weekly critiques of works in progress.
- English 495 | Advanced Non-Fiction Prose Workshop
Dual-listed for students at both the senior level and graduate MA-level, is designed to get students beyond the basic routines of composition and the jargons and codes of "lit-crit" in their writing. Thus it is ideal for students who envision journalism as a career or as an active supplement to an academic career. It takes "composition" and your capacity for clarity and organization for granted and moves on to the next step: being interesting.