F Students who have not taken the ACT or SAT will be required to take an institutionally administered diagnostic test before they enroll in English courses. Three hours of institutional credit will be awarded upon successful completion of 0110. See page 45 concerning Institutional Credit. An introduction to college-level writing, critical thinking, and research skills and an introduction to the analysis of literature. The first course emphasizes the development of critical thinking and writing skills through reading and writing expository essays and argumentation as well as the fundamentals of research and documentation.
Required writing includes frequent short expository essays and one or more research papers.
The second course emphasizes reading and analyzing fiction, poetry, and drama and requires the writing of frequent short essays which apply critical thinking to the literature. Both courses demand competence in grammar, mechanics, and usage. These two courses are required of all students. The courses must be completed in sequence preferably during the first two semesters and before enrollment in any other English course. SU A study of English literature from the beginnings through the Restoration and the 18th Century with particular emphasis on the major writers.