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Emphasizes the trends, themes, forms, and cinematic techniques, technological advances, and "revisionist" genres of recent American films of approximately the last twenty years, partly as a way of analyzing the American film conventions, partly as a means of examining our contemporary culture, but primarily as a means of analyzing and understanding the films themselves. Graded: Graded Student. Units: 3.0
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Features specialized topics taught by a variety of instructors depending upon the semester. Topics can include subject matter from literature, linguistics, English education, creative writing, composition/rhetoric, and film. Tend to the production of a significant research paper, a paper which will emphasize the student's ability to: Analyze and interpret multiple texts; Integrate primary and secondary sources; Construct a sustained, coherent, and rhetorically sophisticated piece of writing. Prerequisite: ENGL 120A and a minimum of 90 units. Graded: Graded Student. Units: 3.0
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Intensive writing that provides students with practice in the kinds of challenging thinking, reading, and writing required in academic discourse. Concentrates on prewriting, drafting, and rewriting processes that address a variety of rhetorical and academic tasks. Special attention given to effective development and support of ideas. Writing requirement: a minimum of 5,000 words. Prerequisite: EPT score of 148+ or above, or completion of ENGL 1. Graded: Graded Student. Units: 3.0
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Devoted to the principles of critical thinking and the writing of argumentative essays. Focuses upon formulating defensible statements, evaluating evidence, and applying the principles of inductive and deductive reasoning. Prerequisite: Grade of C- or better in ENGL 1A. Graded: Graded Student. Units: 3.0
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College Composition for Multilingual Students. Intensive writing for multilingual students that provides practice in the kinds of challenging thinking, reading, and writing required in academic discourse. Concentrates on prewriting, drafting, and rewriting processes that address a variety of rhetorical and academic tasks. Special attention given to effective development and support of ideas. Writing requirement: a minimum of 5,000 words. Prerequisite: EPT score of 147+ or above, or credit in ENGL 87; EDT score of 2-3. Graded: Graded Student. Units: 3.0
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Advanced writing that builds upon the critical thinking, reading, and writing processes introduced in ENGL 1A and ENGL 2. Emphasizes rhetorical awareness by exploring reading and writing within diverse academic contexts with a focus on the situational nature of the standards, values, habits, conventions, and products of composition. Students will research and analyze different disciplinary genres, purposes, and audiences with the goals of understanding how to appropriately shape their writing for different readers and demonstrating this understanding through various written products. Note: Writing requirement: a minimum of 5,000 words. Prerequisite: Completion of ENGL 1A or ENGL 2 or equivalent with a C- or better; sophomore standing (must have completed 30 units prior to registration). Graded: Graded Student. Units: 3.0
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Required of all MA candidates in English under Plans A and C and Creative Writing Plan B, acquaints students with principal sources and techniques of literary research. It also introduces students to contemporary critical approaches to literature. Students should take this course as early as possible in their graduate careers, preferably in the first semester. Students prepare an annotated bibliography and a paper employing a particular critical approach to one of a selection of anchor texts. Note: Graduate Writing Intensive (GWI) course. Graded: Graded Student. Units: 3.0
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Explores research design and testing methods for quantitative and qualitative research in second language acquisition (SLA). Students develop the ability to read second language acquisition research critically; study a variety of theoretical perspectives represented in current SLA research; and review the history of the current "burning issues" in SLA. Note: Graduate Writing Intensive (GWI) course. Graded: Graded Student. Units: 3.0
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Curriculum and Assessment Design for Language Classrooms. Examine the interplay between curriculum design and classroom assessment. The goals are 1) to familiarize prospective teachers with the terminology and practices underlying curriculum design and classroom assessment; 2) to develop the ability to analyze student needs and propose appropriate changes to curricula; and 3) to construct and implement language tests that reflect curricula. Note: May be counted as an elective for the M.A. TESOL program. Graded: Graded Student. Units: 3.0
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Advanced expository writing focused on technical disciplines. Emphasizes textual analysis and integration of multiple works, to include multicultural and cross disciplinary perspectives, with the goal of developing sophisticated reasoning processes, complex organizational strategies, as well as research strategies and editing that meet standards for academic writing. Developed through a central theme that includes a book-length work. Writing requirement: a minimum of 5,000 words. Prerequisite: Grade of C- or better in ENGL 1A or equivalent. Graded: Graded Student. Units: 3.0
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