This supplemental course, taken in conjunction with English 1A, provides additional support for students in English 1A in academic essay writing and analytical reading. Emphasis is on writing process and the skills involved in reading multiple academic texts and developing and revising text-based, thesis-driven essays at the collegiate level.
This course is designed for students who wish to improve their reading skills in all academic areas, including comprehension, textual analysis, and vocabulary at the transfer level.
A short term English Composition course offered to incoming and continuing students as preparation for full-term English courses.
This course is designed to train students who wish to tutor in the English Lab or other English tutorial programs or classrooms on campus. The course content will cover tutoring theory and effective strategies for peer tutoring in English.
This course presents a basic grounding and practice in the academic reading process, reading comprehension, and vocabulary development.
A course in composition and rhetoric that helps students hone a style appropriate for upper-division work that integrates the close reading of nonfiction and the writing of expository and argumentative essays. Focus on sharpening critical thinking skills, analyzing and evaluating texts, and writing text-based prose.
College reading, writing, and critical thinking applied to literature, including poetry, drama, and fiction. Essay writing employing methods of literary analysis, academic research, and critical thinking.
An intensive consideration of the tragic dramas of Greece in English translation from a literary standpoint.
This section of 1AS is a support course that is linked to the corresponding section of 1A. Both sections must be added together.University-parallel reading, writing, and critical thinking with a major research component. Reading, writing, and research assignments are based predominately on non-fiction texts.