In the course you will become familiar with a number of organizing approaches that will help you do this. Any one of these should provide reading and discussion material that will give you interesting starting points from which to write your essays. This is a series of Web based, self-paced lessons designed to help students learn how to find information. English 103H allows highly motivated students to develop their abilities to think well and write well. Because placement in the honors sequence usually reflects evidence of a highly developed competency in writing and a varied background in reading, the focus of the course is to expand the students' knowledge of the classical foundations of rhetoric and familiarize them with challenging ideas in contemporary culture.
Students analyze readings, synthesize information, and formulate ideas.
Students critically assess strategies employed by other writers and then compose essays of their own. Other activities include informal writings, active discussions, essay examinations written in class, and a formal, documented presentation of research. English 109H is designed to prepare you to integrate critical reading, thinking, and writing tasks in one semester. You will engage in a wide range of intellectual, aesthetic, and rhetorical inquiries. Readings include a series of interdisciplinary texts that are topically related, culturally diverse, and representative of a wide variety of voices speaking for different purposes to different audiences.