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Majors and Courses of InstructionEnglishinternational students are assisted in achieving writing competency. All students are tutored inthe Center at times adjusted to their schedules, usually for one hour per week for as long as thestudents’ individual needs dictate. Students receiving a “U” grade in any course are required toreport to the Writing Resource Center immediately at the beginning of the next semester, andmust complete the program to remove the “U” by the end of the semester. Failure to complete thetutoring program for clearing “U” notations may result in academic dismissal.CoursesWriting Competency 105. Freshman Writing Seminar (Staff)A focus on writing as a tool for learning and communicating. Students will develop critical thinkingskills, productive writing habits, and a style appropriate for college-level writing. Several shortpapers and one longer paper are taken through stages of the writing process. Instructional formatsinclude class discussion, workshop sessions, and individual conferences. A sequence of libraryassignments introduces students to the use of Beeghly Library and online resources as an integralpart of the liberal arts education. F, S.Required of AllMajors & MinorsTheme CoursesFreshmen may enroll in any of the one-hundred-level courses. Those who have exempted ENG 105 areencouraged to enroll in one of the one-hundred-level courses offered as an R-course.150. Introduction to Literary Study. Required of all majors and minors. (Allison, Caplan,Comorau, Hipsky, Musser)A course to help students appreciate and understand the conventions of fiction, poetry, drama,and the essay. It raises fundamental questions about the nature of literature: What is it? Why readit? How is life transformed into imaginative works and how do they transform our lives? Doesliterature offer a unique form of knowledge? What distinguishes one literary text from another,or from other kinds of texts? Is some literature better than other literature? Although works andapproaches vary with the instructor, the emphasis of this course remains the same: it focuses onclose reading and analysis to develop students’ critical skills and to enrich their emotional andintellectual experience of literary texts. F, S.410. The Portfolio (0.25 units). Required of all majors and minors. (Staff)Only second-semester seniors may enroll. Students will collect representative work from all theirEnglish courses (essays, essay examinations, etc.), write an introductory essay summarizing theirexperiences as majors or minors, and produce a curriculum vitae or resume. Designed to helpstudents make the transition from college to further study or the world of work. This course isgraded on a satisfactory/no entry basis. S.Theme courses are designed to explore the expanding literary canon and its contexts.145. Reading [a text or texts] (Staff)A course designed to help students develop their reading skills. Students will read and analyze texts,consider their conventions and contexts, and practice various strategies to respond to and interpretthem. The course content will vary, but all instructors will emphasize reading strategies that can beadapted to any text or reading assignment. Texts may include essays, poetry, or fiction, and mayconcentrate on selected works, one longer work (such as a novel or long narrative poem), an author,or a genre (such as memoir or poetry).114