Course Options
Options for English 111: College Composition
In English 111, College Composition, students read a variety of mostly non-fiction writing—essays, interviews, memoirs, speeches—collected in the course reader, Writing and Place: Critical Spaces for Composing. Students write ethnographies, rhetorical analyses, researched arguments, self-reflections, and design their own projects in response to their reading, class work, and personal goals.
All options for English 111 meet MP goals as a Foundation I course, feature common learning outcomes, a common syllabus and course materials, but choices offer special features that may appeal to particular students. Students are expected to produce 40-50 pages of writing. Some of it may be informal but at least 20 pages are revised writing. Students practice invention, drafting, revising; learn to provide peer feedback on papers; practice writing to a variety of audiences for different purposes; consider appropriate form and language for audiences and purposes; learn to conduct research, analyze sources, and document sources properly; learn basic terms of rhetoric and argument.
Options for English 112: Composition and Literature
Students in English 112, Composition and Literature, read a variety of literary texts—complex narrative works of fiction, drama, poetry, and some non-fiction. They study how narrative, dialogue, and figurative language, especially metaphor, shape textual meaning and audiences’ responses. And they practice using these elements in their own writing. Students write personal reading histories, analyze a novel’ narrative or point of view, explore dialogue and inter-textuality among several texts, examine metaphor’s effects in poetry and non-literary writing, and end with reflection. They continue to develop their understanding of the rhetorical situadedness of writing, begun in English 111, by reflecting on audience, purpose, and context for every piece of writing.
Last updated: February 19, 2008
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| Designator | Title | Details | Who Should Enroll |
|---|---|---|---|
| 111S & 112S(Honors and Scholars) | Honors-Enriched | Taught in regular classrooms. Honors program provides the enrichment, including an extra credit hour. | Oxford Scholars and students who live in the Honors and Scholars Living and Learning Community. |
| 111 & 112 | Digital writing | Taught in Bachelor 256, 254 or 250, wireless networked classrooms, with attention to multi-modal and digital literacies, as well as the standard curriculum. | For students interested in composing using new digital media, and networked communication. Students must bring their own laptops. |