Intensive, semester-long course to help students use reading, writing, discussion, and research for discovery, intellectual curiosity, and personal academic growth - students will work in collaborative groups to share, critique, and revise their reading and writing. Students will engage in reading and writing as communal and diverse processes; read and write effectively in and beyond the university; develop metacognitive understandings of their reading, writing, and thinking processes; and understand that everyone develops and uses multiple discourses.

Note: Writing requirement: minimum of 5,000 words

Advanced writing that builds upon the critical thinking, reading, and writing processes introduced in ENGL 5 and ENGL 5M. Emphasizes rhetorical awareness by exploring reading and writing within diverse academic contexts with a focus on the situational nature of the standards, values, habits, conventions, and products of composition. Students will research and analyze different disciplinary genres, purposes, and audiences with the goals of understanding how to appropriately shape their writing for different readers and demonstrating this understanding through various written products.

Note: Writing requirement: a minimum of 5,000 words.

Prerequisite: Completion of ENGL 5 or ENGL 5M OR ENGL 11 or ENGL 11M or equivalent with a C- or better; sophomore standing (must have completed 30 units prior to registration).

Provides intensive practice in prewriting, drafting, revising, and editing academic writing. Students research, analyse, reflect on, and write about the kinds of writing produced in academic disciplines. Students produce a considerable amount of writing such as informal reading responses, rhetorical analyses, and an extended academic research project: students will submit their writing late in the semester in a GWAR Portfolio, from which they will receive a GWAR Placement.

Prerequisite: English 20 with a C- grade or better and have completed at least 60 semester units.

Student-centered group tutorial which will offer supplemental instruction in elements of academic writing taught in writing-intensive upper-division courses; it will provide support to students concurrently enrolled in writing-intensive upper-division courses throughout the writing process, including drafting, revising, and editing, for a variety of papers.

Prerequisite: Writing Placement for Juniors: student who receive a 4-unit placement on the WPJ.

Corequisite: Writing-Intensive upper-division course.

Students learn the basics of the English system of phonology and morphology. Takes an integrated approach synthesizing the issues of phonics, schemata-building, and whole language strategies in teaching reading and writing to young learners. Students will also learn the importance of first and second language acquisition for elementary school students.Evaluation will include classroom examinations, and students will also undertake a detailed case study of one child learning to read and write.

Prerequisite: GWAR Certification before Fall 09, or WPJ score of 70+, or at least a C- in ENGL 109M or ENGL 109W.

Introduction to the rich profusion of children's literature from a variety of cultures and countries and provides the opportunity to respond to this literature creatively and personally. Students will become familiar with the basic terminology of literary analysis -- themes, irony, point-of-view, etc.-- in order to deepen and enrich their experiences with the fiction, drama, and poetry available to young people. The readings are balanced for gender, culture, and ethnic concerns.

Prerequisite: Successful completion of at least 60 units (junior standing).

Intensive writing workshop in which student writing is the focus. Students will engage in a writing process that will include feedback from peers and the instructor throughout the process. This writing process may occur in a variety of rhetorical situations and genres. Through reflection on their writing products and processes, students will gain an awareness of themselves as writers. By the end of the course students will complete an extensive research project and a guided project focused on academic inquiry.

Note: ENGL 120A is a requirement for English majors.

Prerequisite: GWAR Certification before Fall 09, or WPJ score of 70+, or at least a C- in ENGL 109M or ENGL 109W.

Offers a rotating series of topics relevant to composition studies, such as technology-based writing, writing across the curriculum, critical literacy, etc. Introduces students to the theory and practice of the field under consideration. Regardless of the topics, students will explore the major scholarly works of the field and produce writing that analyzes and utilizes the concepts in the area under consideration.

Note: May be repeated for credit as long as topic differs.

Prerequisite: ENGL 20 or ENGL 120A. GWAR certification before Fall 09; or WPJ score of 80+; or 3-unit placement in ENGL 109M or ENGL 109W; or 4-unit placement in ENGL 109M or ENGL 109W and co-enrollment in ENGL 109X; or WPJ score 70 or 71 and co-enrollment in ENGL 109X.

Serves as an introduction to theories about and forms of digital writing while also providing students with opportunities to make digital arguments that reflect on digital media themselves. Introduces students to basic skills in interface and narrative design including typography, layout, color, imagery, and media integration. The course focuses on teaching students how to develop what they already know about rhetoric and writing while also helping them apply those rhetorical skills within digital spaces.

Prerequisite: GWAR certification before Fall 09; or WPJ score of 80+; or 3-unit placement in ENGL 109M or ENGL 109W; or 4-unit placement in ENGL 109M or ENGL 109W and co-enrollment in ENGL 109X; or WPJ score 70 or 71 and co-enrollment in ENGL 109X.