Undergraduate Course Descriptions
English (ENG)
ENG 1301- English Composition I
3(3-0)
Pre-requisite: AWT
1002
This course is designed to familiarize students with the skills
of written English Language composition. The emphasis is on proficiency
in the following activities: pre-writing (brain storming, listing,
free writing, keeping a journal, outlining, etc.), peer review
and peer editing, self-criticism, and revision. Content, style
and form, as well as English grammar, are stressed. Work will
include review of paragraph writing. Students will be required
to write at least four essays of varying length outside the classroom
and one in-class essay.
This is a University Core Course for the BBA, BAIS, BACS, BSHRD, BSGE, BSCSC, BSEMS
ENG 1302 -
English Composition II 3(3-0)
Pre-requisite or co-requisite: SSK
1204
This course should be taken in the semester
following the successful completion of ENG
1301. Building on the writing skills
developed in ENG
1301 and the skills acquired in SSK 1204,
this course focuses on research writing.
It concentrates on the skills needed to produce
documented essays. These skills are to be
practiced in three progressively longer documented
essays. Students are required to demonstrate
knowledge of:
- critical response to texts
- summarizing and paraphrasing
- Synthesis of material, and
- quoting and citing sources.
By the end of the semester, students will
be required to write a major research paper
of at least eight pages in which they should
use the skills listed above.
This is a University Core Course for the BBA, BAIS, BACS, BSHRD,
BSGE, BSCSC, BSEMS
ENG 2301 Critical
Thinking and Written Communication 3(3-0)
Pre-requisites: ENG
1302, COM
1301
This course will build on the skills of
clarity, coherence, and attention to audience
and purpose established in ENG
1301, ENG
1302, and COM
1301. The focus of the course will be
on the argumentation, the identification
and analysis of the written and spoken argumentation
of others and on effective presentation of
arguments in a variety of contexts, with
emphasis on improving the student’s
abilities to both written and spoken argumentation
although written discourse receives greater
attention. The course includes exposure to
and practice in a variety of approaches to
argumentation, including those of Aristotle,
Toulmin, Habermas, and Rogers.
This is a School Core for the BAIS, BACS, BSHRD
ENG 3301 Writing
for the Professions in English 3(3-0)
Pre-requisite: Junior Classification
This course treats the technical writing
needs of corporate and government HRD professions
and will focus on refining the skills developed
in ENG2301 in
the following genres: Advanced writing for
industry, administration, and the corporate
world. Emphasizes proposals, technical reports
and position papers and includes the usual
protocols for interoffice memos and letters.
The course will also examine conventions
of politeness using electronic media.
This is a Human Resource Development Major
Core for the BSHRD
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