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2026-2027 Pierce College Catalog 
    
2026-2027 Pierce College Catalog
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ENGLC 101 Corequisite English Composition (2 credits)



Distribution Area Fulfilled General Elective
Prerequisite Complete Guided Self-Placement

Course Description
Course offers corequisite support for ENGL&101, providing students with extended instruction in college-level composition. Concepts include composing as a social act, metacognitive awareness, and application/awareness of academic support services.

Course Content
A. Composing as a social act
B. Metacognitive awareness
C. Learning communities inside and outside the classroom (e.g. peer-to-peer, peer groups, academic support staff, instructors etc.)
D. Academic support services (including Writing Center and Library)
E. English composition skills and strategies

Student Outcomes
1. Synthesize skills and strategies gained in working with learning communities in one’s own reading, composing, and learning processes.
2. Reflect on feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to one’s position within learning communities, writing classrooms, and writing practices.

Degree Outcomes
Creative, Critical, and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.

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

Lecture Contact Hours 20
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 20

Potential Methods
A. Reading, writing and research workshops B. Critical reflection letters C. Annotated readings
D. Group discussions E. Literacy narratives F. Peer interviews G. Peer response and feedback
H. Writing Center workshops I. Library instruction J. Situational lessons and discussion of the
conventions of grammar, mechanics, and syntax



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