ENGWR 482

Honors Advanced Composition and Critical Thinking

This is an honors course in critical reasoning, reading, and writing, requiring a high level of competence in English composition. Complex texts -- essay and book-length works -- reflecting a variety of social, cultural, and historical contexts are read, discussed, and analyzed. Although this course focuses primarily on non-fictional texts, selected works of fiction may be included. This course focuses on the writing of formal academic essays which include primary and secondary research; MLA format is required for all essays, and a minimum of 6500 words is required for the course. Group and individual class presentations are required; at least one essay assignment requires independent reading. This course is not open to students who have successfully completed ENGWR 302. (C-IDENGL 105)

Units: 3.0

Hours: 54 hours LEC