Course Outline

Date Prepared March 3, 1994 Initiating Division Chair Dr. Arthur Dixon

Lead Division Chair Dr. Arthur Dixon (H&SS, PRC) Other Division Chair Dr. Roland Moore (A&S, DTC)

Other Division Chair Samual Mills (Western Campus)

COURSE OUTLINE

New X Revised Effective Date: Summer Semester, 1994

COURSE PREFIX

NUMBER: ENG 112 CREDIT HOURS: 3

COURSE TITLE: College Composition II

PREREQUISITES: English 111

RATIONALE: English 112 is designed specifically to assist students in developing and further refining their communication skills. The emphasis is on writing; this writing will result primarily from responses to reading material. In this course students will study fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and drama in order to learn about writing styles, interpret the writing of others, and evaluate their relevance. This course should improve their writing and speaking abilities and teach them ways of responding to writing by others. Students should also learn new ways to include evidence from a variety of sources.

CONTENT: (Major Headings)

A. Writing essays

B. Reading, interpreting, and evaluating writing by others

C. Using primary and secondary research

D. Speaking to a group on an assigned topic

GENERAL COURSE OBJECTIVES:

To finish the course successfully, students must demonstrate through their work that they are able to:

A. Read another’s work and develop methods and strategies for responding to it.

B. Interpret and evaluate the reading in a variety of ways.

C. Support their writing with specific examples from a text.

D. Define relationships and use analysis.

E. Prepare and give an oral presentation to the class.

All Division Chairs who will be offering this course have signed at the top of the official course outline, a copy of which is on file in the Humanities and Social Sciences Division office, A-201-R at PRC.

(JSRCC Form 112/REV. 8/10/92) C:\WP\OUTLINES\ENG112

(Outline Revised by both English Depts. 3/1/94) (The official copy is initialed by the PRC and DTC Provosts.)