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English 101 involves the study and practice of writing with attention to audience, purpose, and conventions appropriate to a specific writing situation. This includes the reading, writing, and analyzing of a variety of texts (which may be written, digital, or visual). This course is designed to help you become more successful writers within a range of communities, audiences, and groups you interact and communicate with every day. As a result, the kinds of writing you will practice will be useful to you both inside and outside the university environment.

The usual work load in this class includes:

• Approximately 10-15 pages of reading per week
• 4-5 major writing assignments throughout the semester
• Minor assignments as necessary: responses to readings, journals, quizzes, etc.
• Approximately 5-6 hours of work outside of class each week

By the end of the semester, students should be able to:

• Write for particular audiences and purposes
• Create and organize ideas in writing
• Understand that your writing affects a reader and revise to improve that effect
• Read to identify an author's decisions
• Locate popular sources, evaluate their usefulness, use them effectively, and cite them correctly
• Identify and avoid plagiarism
• Edit and proofread for a polished final product.
   

English 102 involves the study and practice of writing in a variety of forms, with attention to audience, purpose, and conventions appropriate to writing situation. This course will help you become a more independent writer while working toward in-depth development of critical reading and writing skills.

Building on your understanding of rhetorical reading and writing gained in previous college writing courses, you will continue to focus on the way readers and writers construct meaning and approach persuasive strategies, and will become engaged in several topics and issues and add your voice to “the conversation.”

The usual work load for this class includes:

• Approximately 15-20 pages of reading per week
• 4-5 major writing assignments throughout the semester each around 5-7 pages
• Minor assignments as necessary: responses to readings, journals, quizzes, etc.
• Approximately 5-6 hours of work outside of class each week

By the end of the semester, students should be able to:

• Make decisions appropriate for academic and public audiences and purposes
• Generate, develop, organize, revise, and refine your ideas
• Search library databases to locate newspaper, magazine, and scholarly journal articles
• Use search engines such as Google to locate popular and scholarly websites
• Evaluate sources for credibility, currency, and usefulness
• Integrate sources smoothly into your writing
• Document sources fully, accurately, and consistently
• Edit and proofread for a polished final product.

English 151 is a selective admissions Honors course that accomplishes the goals of both English 101 and English 102 in an accelerated single semester. The course is appropriate for you if you are highly prepared and ready to be challenged as you make the transition into university-level writing. This course has a interdisciplinary emphasis and will be conducted as a seminar.

This course is based upon the premise that good writers write frequently, read carefully, use a writing process, and collaborate with others to improve what they write. You will read to discover new perspectives, to enlarge your repertoire of rhetorical and stylistic strategies, and to become a discerning user of sources.

The work load for this course depends on the instructor as assignments appropriate for this course will vary, but students can expect several major writing projects.

By the end of the semester, students should be able to:

• Explore new ideas and styles in writing
• Generate unique topics and develop and organize ideas
• Re-think and revise the development and organization of your writing
• Respond productively to the work of other writers
• Read critically to identify an author's rhetorical and stylistic choices
• Locate and evaluate print and electronic sources, both popular and scholarly, to support and challenge your own ideas
• Use sources effectively and ethically, avoiding plagiarism and documenting sources fully, accurately, and consistently
• Edit and proofread for a polished final product.