Official Course Description:

This course introduces students to writing as a conscious and developmental activity. Students learn to read, think, and write in response to a variety of texts, to integrate their ideas with those of others, and to treat writing as recursive process. Through this work with texts, students are exposed to a range of reading and writing techniques they can employ in other courses and are introduced to fundamental skills of information literacy. Students work individually and collaboratively, participate in peer review, and learn to take more responsibility for their writing development. Placement into this course is determined by multiple measures, including high school achievement and SAT scores. 4.000 Credit hours.

Successful completion of English Composition fulfills a requirement in the CAS Core Curriculum and the WCHP Common Curriculum.

My Course Description:

This is a course that is writing and reading heavy. English 110 challenges students through reading scholarly articles and informative pieces to comprehend and expand through writing assignments. This class forces students to think critically about texts and then to be able to properly communicate their ideas verbally and through writing. By the end of this course, students will know how to critically analyze a reading, and then communicate those ideas in writing.