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2019-2020 Catalog 
    
2019-2020 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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  • ENGL 1301 - Composition I +


    Semester Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Laboratory Hours: 0
    Intensive study of and practice in writing processes, from invention and researching to drafting, revising, and editing, both individually and collaboratively. Emphasis on effective rhetorical choices, including audience, purpose, arrangement, and style. Focus on writing the academic essay as a vehicle for learning, communicating, and critical analysis.
    Required Prerequisite(s): TSI compliant in writing and reading


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  • ENGL 1302 - Composition II +


    Semester Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Laboratory Hours: 0
    Intensive study of and practice in the strategies and techniques for developing research-based expository and persuasive texts. Emphasis on effective and ethical rhetorical inquiry, including primary and secondary research methods; critical reading of verbal, visual, and multimedia texts; systematic evaluation, synthesis, and documentation of information sources; and critical thinking about evidence and conclusions.
    Required Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1301  


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  • ENGL 2311 - Technical and Business Writing +


    Semester Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Laboratory Hours: 0
    Intensive study of and practice in professional settings. Focus on the types of documents necessary to make decisions and take action on the job, such as proposals, reports, instructions, policies and procedures, email messages, letters, and descriptions of products and services. Practice individual and collaborative processes involved in the creation of ethical and efficient documents.
    Required Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1301  


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  • ENGL 2351 - Mexican-American Literature +


    Semester Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Laboratory Hours: 0
     A survey of Mexican American/Chicanx literature from Mesoamerica to the present. Students will study literary works of fiction, poetry, drama, essays, and memoirs in relation to their historical, linguistic, political, regional, gendered, and cultural contexts. Texts will be selected from a diverse group of authors, literary movements, and media forms. Topics and themes may include the literary performance of identity and culture, aesthetic mediation of racialization, struggle and protest, and artistic activism.
    Required Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1301  and ENGL 1302 


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