This class uses small group assignments and discussions to focus on the most important aspects of adapting to college. Students take part in discussions and demonstrations related to personal management, motivation, academic skills, and work habits, communication skills, and social relationships. Specific exercises are designed to promote critical thinking and creative planning. This course will benefit students for whom English is a second language as well as students who need experience writing with the aim of exposition before they move to writing arguments in Rhetoric 1302. The course presents an integrated approach to writing, reading, and critical thinking by developing the grammatical, logical, and rhetorical skills necessary for university writing.
All classes work in a computerized learning environment.
Students are taught basic computer literacy and submit all work electronically and on paper. Focuses on a significant topic or issue through which students are offered an opportunity to gain experience in various analytic and interpretive approaches. Explores connections among artistic and intellectual endeavors appropriate to a range of courses in the Arts and Humanities. This course should be taken within the first 12 hours of enrollment in the program. Study of major themes of the classical tradition in Western literature and their subsequent transformation.