Carroll Community College

ENGL-103, Advanced College Writing

Credits: 3

This is a General Education Course

Course Description

ENGL-103, Advanced College Writing, provides students with an opportunity to develop evaluative, interpretative, and analytical skills necessary for college-level work. Students will focus on critically reading and responding to literary texts from three of the following genres: fiction, poetry, drama, and/or non-fiction prose. Emphasis will be placed on the research process, culminating in at least one researched literary interpretation. Throughout the course, students will compile Part 1 of their Carroll Community Writing Portfolios, which will be evaluated as the final examination to determine whether or not statewide standards for a "C" paper have been met. In addition, students will spend an additional hour per week engaged in Expression Workshop activities, which will require students to build upon expression skills developed in English 101. Expression Workshop activities may include individual or group conferences with the teacher, Blackboard exercises in grammar and punctuation, and/or department-wide seminars in writing style. To satisfy the Literature and Composition general education requirement, ENGL-103 students will take an upper-level English course. Prerequisite: Open only to Hill Scholars. Four hours lecture each week. Three credits. Four billable hours. GENERAL EDUCATION

Course Objectives and Grading Information

COURSE OBJECTIVES  ENGL-103 is designed to develop your ability to interpret texts and write clearly about literature. In this course, you will :   

1. Discover topics for essays through the critical reading of literature (GE2; E1) 

2. Analyze the elements of literature, and appropriately use literary terminology (GE2, GE5; E3) 

3. Craft thesis statements that makes a point or a claim about a work of literature (GE1, GE2, GE5; E3) 

4. Organize ideas to foster clarity and coherence (GE1, GE2, GE5; E1, E2, E3) 

5. Incorporate quotes from literary works in essays (GE1, GE2, GE5; E1, E3, E5) 

6. Conduct research to develop and support an interpretation of a selected work of literature (GE1, GE2, GE4, GE7; E1, E2, E3, E4, E5) 

7. Respond to multi-cultural literature by defining the commonality or the diversity of a human experience (GE1, GE2, GE4, GE6; E1, E2, E3, E4, E5) 

8. Write clear and complete sentences without errors that impede meaning (GE1; E5) 

9. Develop reflective learning habits that result in a greater awareness of your writing skills (GE1, GE2, GE7; E6)