100-level Courses

||English 101||English 102|| English 105|| English 107|| English 108||

English 101 -- First-Year Composition
This course aims to increase students' ability to develop ideas, to express ideas effectively, and to engage different literacies. It gives special attention to expository and persuasive writing. Critical reading of articles, speeches, and other non-literary texts helps students to understand the rhetorical process, to analyze audience and its cultural contexts, and to foresee the audience's response. A substantial amount of writing is required.

English 102 -- First-Year Composition --  Service Learning Internship Option Available

Like English 101, English 102 is designed to help students develop sophisticated, situation-sensitive reading and writing strategies. Students make arguments in formal and informal settings. Special attention is given to evidence discovery, claim support, argument response, and their applications to academic debate, public decision making, and written argument. A substantial amount of writing is required.
Prerequisites: A grade of "C" or better in English 101

English 105 -- Advanced First-Year Composition
An intensive, one-semester writing course that folds the work of our two semester sequence into one. The course emphasizes that research is not merely mechanical or abstract: it contributes to the goals of the entire course. That is, rather than emphasizing the mere ability to find evidence to support a given argument, the course emphasizes the ability to judge the merit and appropriateness of that evidence, to weigh different pieces of evidence against one another and to engage in intellectual dialogue with the authorities represented by that evidence.

English 107 and English 108
English 107 is for International students who have English as their second language, or who come from countries where English is not the first language.  English 107 course "counts" the same as English 101.

Following English 107, students take English 108, which fulfills the same requirement as English 102.