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  • 4.00 Credits

    Effective Aug 22, 2005 View History Description: Alternative portfolio-based assessment of the Graduate Writing Assessment Requirement (GWAR). Provides no instruction in writing, oral communication, or critical thinking. Assumes students have already attained mastery of the outcomes. It is not an independent study. GWAR is required to graduate and should be completed at the beginning of the junior year. The recommended pathway for the fulfillment of GWAR is a GWAR-certified course. Students who believe they have completed written work that demonstrates fulfillment of the GWAR outcomes may seek instructor consent to enroll. Units 4 Units Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions: None
  • 4.00 Credits

    Effective Aug 1, 2010 View History Description: Develops media literacy and related knowledge, skills, and abilities. Explores implications of globalization on media production, distribution, and access, as well as on the content, context, consumption, and effects of media messages. Topics include media's role in democracy, what citizens have a right to expect from media and how media reflect and reinforce their social context. Offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 2 or the concentrations in Journalism and Media Studies, or Practical and Professional Ethics. (Offered every year.) Units 4 Units Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions: (Prerequisites: EngCom A AND EngCom B)
  • 6.00 Credits

    Effective Aug 1, 2010 View History Description: Introduces students in a service learning context to writing conventions, contemporary composition theories, and major forms of written expression such as expressive, interpretive, technical, rhetorical, argumentative, invitational, and creative. Offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 1 or the concentration in Writing and Rhetoric. Meets the Single Subject in English Waiver Communication Skills Requirement and the Field Experience Requirement. (Offered every year.) Units 6 Units Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions: (Prerequisites: EngCom A AND EngCom B)
  • 4.00 Credits

    Effective Aug 1, 2010 View History Description: Introduces students to writing conventions, contemporary composition theories, and major forms of written expression such as expressive, interpretive, technical, rhetorical, argumentative, invitational, and creative. Offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 1 for Liberal Studies students only. (Offered every other year.) Units 4 Units Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions: (Prerequisites: EngCom A AND EngCom B)
  • 4.00 Credits

    Effective Aug 1, 2010 View History Description: Introduces the basic elements and diverse linguistic attributes of the English language, and language theories, including universals and differences. Commonly practiced grammatical concepts and conventions and theories of language acquisition are studied and applied within the contexts of imperialism and post-colonial analysis. Explores the dynamics of current issues in language, including the roles of grammar in the schools, language in advertising, and variations in language usage. Offers built-in assessment for the concentration in Writing and Rhetoric. Required for the Single Subject in English Waiver Language Theories and Praxis Requirement. (Offered every other year.) Units 4 Units Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions: (Prerequisites: EngCom A AND EngCom B)
  • 4.00 Credits

    Effective Aug 1, 2010 View History Description: Covers a diverse selection of rhetorical traditions from antiquity through contemporary times; investigates, analyzes, and evaluates major and recuperated historical figures and movements; explores the role of rhetoric in a variety of historical and cultural contexts; considers the relationships of rhetoric to epistemology, ethics, economics, spirituality, and politics. Offers build-in assessment for the concentrations in Practical and Professional Ethics or Writing and Rhetoric. (Offered every other year.) Units 4 Units Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions: (Prerequisites: EngCom A AND EngCom B)
  • 4.00 Credits

    Effective Aug 1, 2010 View History Description: Develops students' critical and analytical reading ability of literature from the perspective of the Asian American experience. Grounds the discussion of Asian American experiences, literatures, and cultures in history and theory. Offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 6 or the concentrations in Comparative American Studies, or Literary and Film Studies. A literature course from Literature/Popular Culture ULR is recommended. (Offered every year.) Units 4 Units Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions: (Prerequisites: EngCom A AND EngCom B)
  • 4.00 Credits

    Effective Aug 1, 2010 View History Description: Examines the history of American drama. Explores the diverse cultures that have contributed to the shaping of the American drama. Introduces students to literary analysis through the study of the dialogical relationship between the "logical core" and the "non-logical texture." Offers built in assessment in HCOM MLO 6 or the concentrations in Literary and Film Studies, or Comparative American Studies. (Offered every year.) Units 4 Units Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions: (Prerequisites: EngCom A AND EngCom B)
  • 4.00 Credits

    Effective Aug 1, 2010 View History Description: Examines the development of African American and African diaspora literature. Explores the quintessential role African American and African diaspora literature and culture have played in the development of American mainstream literature, culture, and identity. Looks at vernacular tradition, the call and response practice, and the lyrics of the blues-infused, African American literary expression. Offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 6 or the concentrations in Africana Studies, Literary and Film Studies, or Comparative American Studies. (Offered every other year.) Units 4 Units Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions: (Prerequisites: EngCom A AND EngCom B)
  • 3.00 Credits

    Effective Aug 1, 2010 View History Description: Explores immigration to the United States from different cultural perspectives. Integrates a historiographic approach as the primary method for reading and critically interpreting immigrant narratives; uses historical events such as The Great Depression, World War I and II, and the Civil Rights Movement as markers for analyzing the texts. Offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 6 or the concentrations in Literary and Film Studies; Comparative American Studies; or Chicana/o - Latina/o Studies. Satisfactory completion of the U.S. Histories ULR, the Literature/Popular Culture ULR, and the Culture and Equity ULR also recommended. (Offered every other year.) Units 4 Units Prerequisites, Corequisites, and Registration Restrictions: (Prerequisites: EngCom A AND EngCom B)
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