First Year Writing Courses

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• English 101 Composition as Critical Inquiry

  In English 101 "Composition as Critical Inquiry,” students learn how to analyze the multiple dimensions and meet the multiple demands of a variety of written rhetorical situations. Students also develop an array of strategies to help them navigate different genres and writing situations. These strategies include: reading, brainstorming, writing to learn and think, drafting, research (both textual and empirical), giving and receiving helpful responses, revision, editing and proofreading, publication, and techniques for researching writing processes, including their own.

  For more information see our English 101 Learning Outcomes on the Forms and Documents page.

• English 101A10

  English 101A10 covers the same material as English 101, with a smaller class size (18 max), while also providing an additional writing lab in a smaller setting (9). Each class for English 101A10 meets two days per week (MW or TR for 75 minutes), and each lab meets one day per week on Friday for 50 minutes. The classroom portion and the lab portion are led by different teachers who communicate frequently to help students gain a better understanding of course materials. 

• English 145 Writing in the Academic Disciplines

  Students in English 145 will learn how to research, analyze, and write in their chosen academic disciplines. They will identify the conventions of their discourse communities and use these conventions in their own writing. While students in English 145 will learn the differences and similarities between their disciplines and other academic disciplines, most of the work in this course will be devoted to the study of their own disciplinary groups and chosen fields. Through flexible and rigorous research, students will be able to locate and define various genres of writing in their disciplines and gain the skills necessary to produce them. The overall goal of this course is to enable students to be successful writers and scholars in the academy and to help students produce genres of writing used in their professions.

  For more information, see our English 145 Learning Outcomes on the Forms and Documents page.

• English 145A13 Writing in the Academic Disciplines (for Business and Government)

  ENG 145A13 is a required, specialized course that addresses disciplinary writing for students in the School of Business.