INTRODUCTION TO COLLEGE COMPOSITION

COMARTS 100

Develop written and spoken communication skills through hands-on learning while studying audience- centered public speaking. Focus on becoming more confident and comfortable as a speaker and writer. Strengthen your library research skills and digital literacy. Gain essential skills for success in college courses and life beyond the university, from job interviews to professional presentations, to research talks.

ENGL 400

Focuses on developing complex understandings of rhetorical, ethical, and literary strategies for writing. Practice in writing a range of nonfiction genres with attention to varieties of style, context, critical standards, and conventions. Designed for students with a strong interest in writing. May include multi-modal assignments.

ENGL 201

Provides practice in persuasive writing in various modes, styles, and genres; develops an understanding of the different contexts of writing, both scholarly and public; provides opportunities for exploring the relation between writing and speaking; and provides critical tools for the rhetorical analysis of expository prose. Not open to auditors

ENGL 700

Rhetorical, linguistic, psychological, and social foundations of writing; implications for instruction.

ENGL 505

In-depth intellectual engagement with the perspectives, concerns, and methods of Composition Rhetoric. Topics vary in relation to writing, rhetoric, literacy, and multimodal or digital approaches to any of these.