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4.00 Credits
Offers students the opportunity to move across texts and genres (such as expository essays, fiction, or film), focusing on the basics of composition and the use of metaphor, organization, selection, gaps and silences, tone, and point of view. Through a series of sequenced assignments, students read fiction and nonfiction texts of some complexity, make the critical interpretation of these texts the occasion for their own writing, write expository prose that makes use of a variety of rhetorical strategies, conduct library research when appropriate, reflect on and assess their writing, and refine their documentation skills. Requires students to write multiple drafts and emphasizes the writing process as well as the quality of the finished product. Students must keep a portfolio of their work.
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4.00 Credits
Introduces students to the components of the writing process, from generating ideas to drafting and revising. In a workshop setting, students learn to read texts of some complexity (which in turn serve as the occasion for their own writing), and to write expository prose that makes use of a variety of rhetorical strategies and research methods while demonstrating a control of the conventions of standard edited written English. Requires students to write multiple drafts and emphasizes the writing process as well as the quality of the finished product. Students must keep a portfolio of their work.
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4.00 Credits
Retired August 31, 2007; replaced with ENG U111 in the College of Arts and Sciences. Offers students the opportunity to move across texts and genres (such as expository essays, fiction, or film), thus focusing on the basics of compositions and the use of metaphor, organization, selection, gaps and silences, tone, and point of view. Through a series of sequenced assignments, students read fiction and nonfiction texts of some complexity, make the critical interpretation of these texts the occasion for their own writing, write expository prose that makes use of a variety of rhetorical strategies, conduct library research when appropriate, reflect on and assess their writing, and refine their documentation skills. Requires students to write multiple drafts and emphasizes the writing process as well as the quality of the finished product. Students must keep a portfolio of their work.
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4.00 Credits
Retired August 31, 2007. Designed for students who entered the University under the quarter system and must fulfill the second half of their first-year requirement while on the semester system. Requires students to write multiple drafts and emphasizes the writing process as well as the quality of the finished product. Students work with texts in various genres and use these texts as occasions for analytical writing. Students must keep a portfolio of their work.
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4.00 Credits
Introduces students to their tacit linguistic knowledge of word structure (morphology), sentence structure (syntax), meaning (semantics), and speech sounds (phonetics and phonology). This structural knowledge is the basis for exploring the social dimensions of language: geographic dialects (e.g., Boston speech), Black English (Ebonics), men's and women's language, as well as biological questions of nature vs. nurture, language acquisition, and animal communication.
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4.00 Credits
Introduces students to major concepts, traditions, and issues in rhetorical studies. Explores the range of ways that people persuade others to change their minds or take action; the relationship among language, truth, and knowledge; and the role of language in shaping identity and culture. Focuses on recognized thinkers from the Western tradition as well as writers that challenge the rhetorical canon. Emphasizes contemporary and interdisciplinary approaches to rhetoric interested in the entire range of rhetorical artifacts, with primary attention given to methods of critically investigating texts and their effects.
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4.00 Credits
Introduces the genres of poetry. Involves close reading of selected poems, study of critical terms, and practice in different critical approaches to poetry.
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4.00 Credits
Introduces the genres of fiction. Involves close reading of selected novels and short stories, study of critical terms, and practice in different critical approaches to fiction.
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4.00 Credits
Introduces the genres of drama. Involves close reading of selected plays, study of critical terms, and practice in different critical approaches to drama.
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4.00 Credits
Offers elective credit for courses taken at consortium institutions.
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