2024-2025 Pierce College Catalog 
    
    Oct 09, 2024  
2024-2025 Pierce College Catalog
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ENGL& 101 English Composition I (5 credits)



Distribution Area Fulfilled Communications; General Transfer Elective
Formerly ENGL 101 - CCN

Prerequisite Placement or ENGL 099 with a grade of 2.0 or higher. College Level reading ability.

Course Description
ENGL&101 encourages an expansive vision of writing both within and beyond college that values the strengths of learners’ lived experiences and cultural practices.

Course Content
A. Genres
B. Composition processes (e.g. brainstorming, revising, presenting, etc.)
C. Linguistic diversity
D. Writing as a social act (e.g. writing communities; discourse communities; linguistic communities)
E. Identity, positionality, and bias
F. Rhetorical choices, situations, and circulations
H. Information literacy
I. Composition technologies and tools (e.g word processors, AI chatbots, online databases etc.)
J. Critical reading 
K. Critical reflection strategies

Student Outcomes
  1. Practice iterative writing and revision processes to conceptualize, develop, and share projects for specific contexts.
  2.  Interrogate power dynamics and structures in language use and reception.
  3. Write for a variety of contexts, utilizing lived experiences and perspectives.
  4. Reflect on how speaker and audience positionality, identities and biases shape the rhetorical situation. 
  5. Identify information and technology needs in order to find, assess, use, cite/attribute information.
  6. Use technologies to compose and research ethically.
  7. Describe how your experience with and understanding of composing has developed and will continue to develop.


Degree Outcomes
Effective Communication: Graduates will be able to exchange messages in a variety of contexts using multiple methods.

Communication: Graduates identify, analyze, and evaluate rhetorical strategies in one’s own and other’s writing in order to communicate effectively.

Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50

Potential Methods
A. Formal writings: essays, essay exams, research reports, reading responses 
B. Projects: group presentations, individual presentations, multimedia productions 
C. Informal writings: journals, in-class responses, brainstorming, freewriting, paraphrase and summary 
D. Group discussions and classroom activities 
E. Exams and quizzes: short answer, matching, multiple choice



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