This course will emphasize basic sentence structure, spelling, vocabulary, the basic rules of grammar and usage, and the organization and writing of formal paragraphs and short essays. Placement by SAT verbal scores, ACT scores, and diagnostic essays. Students placed in 050 must attempt the course during the first semester of the freshman year and repeat it each subsequent semester until a passing grade is earned. An introduction to the art of debate and argumentation. Emphasis will be on the ability to analyze, criticize, and advocate ideas to understand the relationship of language to logic.
Primary attention is given to the study of expository writing.
Required of all students during the first semester of the freshman year or immediately upon completion of 050. Students must enroll in 132 immediately upon the successful completion of 131. Includes continuing work on expository writing, principles of library research, the production of a research paper, oral communication, and literary analysis . Emphasis upon the analysis of representative works and upon the influences that produced them. Literature of England from the 18th century through World War I. Emphasis upon the analysis of representative works and upon the influences that produced them.