|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Course Criteria
Add courses to your favorites to save, share, and find your best transfer school.
-
4.00 Credits
Equivalent to Workshop in College English (DESL1-DC 9174) offered by the American Language Institute (ALI). Entrance by placement exam only. Cannot substitute for International Writing Workshop I or II (EXPOS-UA 4 and 9).
-
4.00 Credits
These two courses, designed for students planning to apply to a degree program in the United States, prepare students to function comfortably in university-level classes and other situations in which formal writing is required. Workshops help students develop their ability to summarize, discuss, analyze, and comment on their reading. Students read authentic nonfiction materials from newspapers, magazines, and books and write critical essays. Courses provide assistance in grammar and editing. Proficiency Examination The Expository Writing Program administers the Proficiency Examination to students who receive a C- or lower (including F) in Writing the Essay (EXPOS-UA 1) or International Writing Workshop II (EXPOS-UA 9). EWP also administers the exam to all external transfer students, who must take and pass the examination to graduate. All students who fail the exam will be placed in Writing Tutorial (EXPOS-UA 13).
-
4.00 Credits
Provides instruction in essay writing while increasing fluency, sentence control, and confidence. Emphasizes pre-writing strategies (exploratory writing, reflective writing, free-writing) and provides practice in close reading and writing about experiential, written, and visual texts. Students learn to make use of evidence, ideas, and the incorporation of texts as they draft and revise essays of their own. Instructor feedback includes discussion of appropriate conventions in English grammar and style.
-
4.00 Credits
Provides instruction in critical reading, textual analysis, exploration of experience, the development of ideas, and revision. Stresses both the importance of inquiry and reflection and the use of texts and experience as evidence for essays. Reading and writing assignments lead to essays in which students analyze and raise questions about written texts and experience, and reflect upon text, experience, and idea in a collaborative learning environment. Discusses appropriate conventions in English grammar and style as part of instructor feedback. The Expository Writing Program (EWP) offers writing courses for undergraduates throughout the University, as well as tutorial help in the Writing Center for the entire University community. All students (except those in the Arthur O. Eve HEOP or C-Step program) must complete Writing the Essay (EXPOS-UA 1, or EXPOS-UA 5 for Tisch School of the Arts students). Special sections of EXPOS-UA 1 are offered and vary by semester. These include sections for science students, sections in selected residence halls, and sections linked to the Morse Academic Plan (MAP) Text and Ideas requirement. Students in the College of Nursing, Silver School of Social Work, and Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development must complete a second semester of writing, The Advanced College Essay: Education and the Professions (ACE-UE 110); students in Tisch must complete The World Through Art (ASPP-UT 2) as their second term of writing. International students may be eligible to complete their expository writing requirement with the sequence International Writing Workshop I and II (EXPOS-UA 4 and 9). HEOP/C-Step students take Writing I and II (WRI-UF 1001 and 2002). Writing Tutorial (EXPOS-UA 13) provides additional work in writing for students across the University. The program is nationally recognized for faculty development and innovative teaching. Faculty members regularly present their ideas at national conferences for writing teachers and conduct writing workshops throughout the world.
-
4.00 Credits
Designed to engage all Tisch freshmen in a broad interdisciplinary investigation across artistic media. Provides instruction and practice in critical reading, creative thinking, and essay writing. Students learn to analyze and interpret written texts, art objects, and performances; to use written, visual, and performance texts as evidence; and to develop ideas. The course stresses exploration, inquiry, reflection, analysis, revision, and collaborative learning.
-
4.00 Credits
Provides advanced instruction in analyzing and interpreting written texts from a variety of academic disciplines, the use of written texts as evidence, the development of ideas, and the writing of argumentative essays through a process of inquiry and reflection. Stresses analysis, revision, inquiry, and collaborative learning. Discusses appropriate conventions in English grammar and style as part of instructor feedback.
-
4.00 Credits
Open to students with no previous training in French and to others on assignment by placement test. Not equivalent to FREN-UA 10. Only by following FREN-UA 1 with FREN-UA 2 can a student complete the equivalent of FREN-UA 10 and then continue on to the intermediate level. Offered every semester.
-
6.00 Credits
Open to students with no previous training in French and to others on assignment by placement test. Completes the equivalent of a year's
elementary level in one semester. Offered every semester.
-
4.00 Credits
Helps the student to develop vocabulary, improve pronunciation, and learn new idiomatic expressions. Introduction to corrective phonetics and emphasis on understanding contemporary French through a study of such authentic documents as radio and television interviews, advertisements, and spontaneous oral productions.
-
4.00 Credits
Provides advanced French-language students with the opportunity to improve their pronunciation through a detailed analysis of the sound systems of both French and English.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Privacy Statement
|
Terms of Use
|
Institutional Membership Information
|
About AcademyOne
Copyright 2006 - 2024 AcademyOne, Inc.
|
|
|