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1.00 Credits
(1.0 Unit) (No prerequisite. One lecture hour weekly.) In this individualized course students will learn efficient reading techniques that will help them double or triple their present reading rate with increased concentration, comprehension, and retention. Developing reading flexibility will be emphasized as students learn to vary their reading rate to suit their purpose. Skimming, scanning, and textbook reading will also be covered. Can also be offered in a distance learning format. (CSU)
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3.00 Credits
(3.0 Units) (Prerequisite: English 98 or 98SL or English Placement Test. Three lecture hours and one laboratory hour weekly.) Students sharpen their skills in reading, writing, and critical thinking to improve reading comprehension and to develop composing techniques for effective academic writing. This course is designed to prepare students for success in college level academic reading and writing, emphasis being placed upon thinking clearly and logically and upon the construction of cogent arguments. Students also review such matters as standard usage, appropriate diction, punctuation, grammar, and ways to achieve variety in sentence structure within the context of the essay. Assignments show the interconnection among readings, personal experience, observation, and class discussion. Requires one hour weekly of guided practice in the Writing Center. This course can be offered in a distance learning, online, or hybrid format. (CSU) AA/AS Area D
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3.00 Credits
(3.0 Units) (Prerequisite: English 98 or 98SL or English Placement Test. Three lecture hours and one laboratory hour weekly.) This course is for non-native English speakers. Students sharpen their skills in reading, writing, and critical thinking to improve reading comprehension and to develop composing techniques for effective academic writing. This course is designed to prepare students for success in college-level academic reading and writing, emphasis being placed upon the construction of cogent arguments. Students also review standard usage, appropriate diction, punctuation, grammar, and ways to achieve variety in sentence structure. Assignments show the interconnection among readings, personal experience, observation, and class discussion. Requires one hour weekly of guided practice in the ESL Lab and/or Writing Center Lab. (CSU/UC)
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3.00 Credits
(3.0 Units) (Prerequisite: Eligibility for English 150. Three lecture hours weekly.) This course is designed to sharpen students' abilities to reason clearly. It is an introductory level course in the arts of rhetoric and logic. Students will learn to recognize and analyze common fallacies found in political statements, magazine commentary, news coverage, editorials, advertisements, and classical persuasive works. They will develop ways to organize their ideas and express them rationally, as well as ways to judge the quality of ideas and the purposes of various examples ranging from propaganda to persuasion to philosophy. This course satisfies the CSU critical thinking requirement and offers students a chance to refine and continue developing their writing and reading skills before transferring. (CSU/UC) AA/AS Area E, CSU Area A-3
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3.00 Credits
(3.0 Units) (Prerequisite: English 120 or 120SL. Three lecture hours weekly.) This course is intended to develop and refine students' writing, reading, and critical thinking abilities. Students read and discuss various works and write expository and argumentative prose. Additionally, English 150 emphasizes gathering, evaluating and documenting evidence. A research paper will be required. During the course of the semester, students are required to write numerous essays for a total of between 8,000-10,000 words. May also be offered in a distance learning format. (CSU/UC) AA/AS Area D, CSU Area A-2, IGETC Area 1A, CAN ENGL 2, CAN ENGL SEQ A = Engl 150 + 151
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3.00 Credits
(4.0 Units) (Prerequisite: English 150. Four lecture hours weekly.) This is a critical thinking/composition course that highlights literary texts as material from which students will derive samples of the critical exercises of their thinkers and evidence to use in critical constructions of their own. The term "literary evidence"is broadly defined here to include critical and argumentative essays, biographical or historical discussions, belletristic writing, and texture analysis, as well as poetry, drama, short stories, and novels. Students will develop skills in analysis, interpretation, informal logic, and expository and persuasive essay writing. They will learn to identify arguments, both in persuasive polemical discourse where arguments are presented and defended, and in subtler, more emotional texts where arguments are implied or masked. They will develop skills in recognizing and distinguishing fallacious reasoning from cogent reasoning in a variety of formats. Student essays will be expected to demonstrate a capacity for presenting complex ideas (problems with ambiguous or multiple solutions, for example) in a clear, coherent, convincing manner, with particular attention to matters of organization and style. A minimum of eight thousand words of writing (including two revisions) will be required. May also be offered in a distance learning format. (CSU/UC) AA/AS Areas C or E, CSU Area A-3, IGETC Area 1B, CAN ENGL 4, CAN ENGL SEQ A = Engl 150 + 151
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4.00 Credits
(4.0 Units) (Prerequisite: English 150. Four lecture hours weekly.) This course is intended to develop rhetorical, critical, argumentative, and organizational skills in written composition and heightened perceptivity in analytical reading. Extensive analysis of texts will exercise the students' faculties of critical and logical thinking. The investigation and analysis of writing models will focus on deductive, inductive and inferential reasoning, on assumptions and inferences embedded in argument, on the informal logical fallacies, on divergent world views, and on incoherencies and biases in presentation. Student essays will be expected to demonstrate a capacity for presenting complex ideas in a clear, coherent, and convincing manner, with particular attention shown to matters of organization and style. A minimum of eight thousand words of writing will be required of each student. (CSU/UC) AA/AS Area E, CSU Area A-3, IGETC Area 1B
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3.00 Credits
(3.0 Units) (Prerequisite: Eligibility for English 150. Three lecture hours weekly.) This course is designed to familiarize qualified students with the discipline and craft of fiction, poetry, or drama. Writing samples are to be submitted within the first week of class. English 202 and English 203 may each be taken twice for credit. (CSU/UC) CAN ENGL 6 = Engl 202
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3.00 Credits
(3.0 Units) (Prerequisite: Eligibility for English 150. Three lecture hours weekly.) This course is designed to familiarize qualified students with the discipline and craft of fiction, poetry, or drama. Writing samples are to be submitted within the first week of class. English 202 and English 203 may each be taken twice for credit. (CSU/UC)
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