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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course will center on a survey of approaches to curriculum with emphasis on alignment and fundamental principles of curriculum design. Historical and contemporary materials related to the curriculum approaches will be used to illustrate trends and innovations.
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3.00 Credits
This preparatory course is designed for students who placed into the course based on their writing and verbal SAT scores. Students required to take 090 may not enter English Composition 103 until they have passed Composition Skills 090. This course is offered each semester. Credits granted for the course are not included within the minimum 120 semester hours required for graduation.
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3.00 Credits
This course, a special section of ENGL 090, offers international students the opportunity to improve their writing, reading, listening, and speaking skills (in that order).
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3.00 Credits
This course, a special section of ENGL 090, offers international students the opportunity to improve their writing, reading, listening, and speaking skills (in that order).
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3.00 Credits
This course offers an introduction to core skills in academic writing. Students will gain expertise in sentence construction, paragraph structure, the development of evidence and support, and the effective use of patterns of organization. Through textual analysis, students will recognize how sentences, paragraphs, and essays are arranged to achieve clear written communication. Students will compose short and medium-length essays that address a variety of tasks in academic settings.
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3.00 Credits
This course entails the comprehensive study and practice of university-level expository writing. Students gain essential writing-process skills in essay planning, drafting, revising, and editing. The course provides instruction in the use of rhetorical strategies to develop successful written arguments for different audiences. Students analyze, synthesize, interpret and evaluate academic source material while learning proper citation techniques for attributing ownership and avoiding plagiarism according to a major documentation system. Students must recieve a minimum grade of "C" to fulfill the English Composition requirement. Prerequisite: This course, or its equivalent is required for all students. SAT, ACT, or Accuplacer scores may require some students to pass English 101 before entering English 103. Students may also demonstrate competency by taking the CLEP exam in English Composition. Such examinations must be passed at the 50th percentile. AP test scores may also be considered by arrangement of the Department chairperson.
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3.00 Credits
This course will provide students with experience in the form styles of academic writing and research. They will be introduced to reading, strategies that permit access to a wide range of print and non-print texts, such as video, internet and print media that address America's most pressing social concerns and learn to analyze them critically. Through oral presentations, collaborative writing exercises, and formal research projects, students will gain experience in utilizing these media in the classroom. This work will meet several PDE (PA Department of Education) competencies including editing skills, grammar and punctuation rules, reading and writing an array of essays, multiple word meanings, and interpreting information in various forms. This course is specifically designed for students preparing for a Bachelor's degree in Education.
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3.00 Credits
Designed to acquaint the student with the basic skills of literary interpretation, this course includes readings in selected works of literature and examines such topics as explication and analysis of literary genres, plot, character, foreshadowing, atmosphere, symbolism, and imagery.
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3.00 Credits
Students will study fiction, poetry and drama from around the world and write a number of critical papers. Students will also conduct critical research and will demonstrate familiarity with a wide variety of critical approaches.
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3.00 Credits
This is a course of guided readings from classical to contemporary authors about the war experience.
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