ECS classes are offered Thursday, Friday, Friday evening, and Saturday. Full-time students normally attend classes one to two days per week. Students can appropriately use the terminology and document formats of their fields of study. They can organize their ideas and convey them in writing that is clear, concise, and mechanically correct. They can express these ideas in a manner appropriate to their audience and context.
Students can state a judgment and support it with concrete evidence.
They can analyze arguments to find the main and supporting points, and can identify unsupported claims and assumptions. They can pose relevant questions, distinguish factual statements from value judgments, identify bias, and constructively challenge their own thinking. They can give open-minded consideration to a diversity of opinions. Students can listen actively and construct an appropriate summary of another's message. They can give and receive constructive feedback.