This course fulfills the Writing Requirement for General Education. Students learn to develop their own writing voice, to generate ideas for writing, and to research for documented papers.
Students collaborate in assessing each other's work and generating ideas.
Students engage with information technology, learning it evaluate web sites and document the information gathered from web sites. A broad survey of the three major genres of literature, poetry, fiction, and drama. It can also fulfull the 200 level course requirement for the English major and serves as a prerequisite for 300 level courses. Students gain skill teaching their peers in collaborative group reports, in which a group of students presents the day's readings to the class. Readings assignment address issues of moral and social responsibility.