ENGL COMPOSITION 1 (ENGL 1301)

Instructor: Frances Ohanenye

ENGL 1301 is an 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. See the Core curriculum course description.

English courses satisfy three (3) hours of the communication requirement in the HCCS core curriculum.  The HCCS English Discipline Committee has specified that courses address the following core objectives:

  • Critical Thinking: Students will demonstrate creative thinking, innovation, inquiry, analysis, evaluation and synthesis of information.
  • Communication: Students will demonstrate effective development, interpretation and expression of ideas through written, oral, and visual communication.
  • Personal Responsibility: Students will demonstrate the ability to connect choices, actions, and consequences to ethical decision-making.
  • Teamwork: Students will demonstrate the ability to consider different points of view and to work effectively with others to support a shared purpose or goal. 
    • Composition I, Composition II, Creative Writing, Introduction to Technical Writing, and Technical & Business Writing only
  • Social Responsibility: Students will demonstrate intercultural competency, knowledge of civic responsibility, and the ability to engage effectively in regional, national, and global communities.
    • Literature courses only