Successful completion of Composition I (English 111) or its equivalent (obtained through testing, transfer, etc.) will be prerequisite for enrollment in all communication-intensive courses.
Communication-intensive (CI) courses will, at minimum:
• refine students’ abilities to construct a range of coherent, effective, well-documented written and oral presentations within the discipline that - are appropriate for audience and purpose
- consider a range of perspectives and experiences
- effectively employ appropriate rhetorical strategies, such as logical, emotional and ethical appeals
• require critical use of outside resources appropriate to the course content, to - enhance students’ ability to identify and evaluate sources appropriately - refine students’ abilities to synthesize and cite materials responsibly and appropriately
• include critical reading, viewing. and/or listening to multiple modes of communication, developing skills to identify premises and assumptions of complex arguments
• require that each student complete a minimum of 10 double-spaced pages of formal writing and the equivalent of 10 double-spaced pages of informal writing (such as posts to email dialogue groups, responses, journals, etc.), divided into multiple assignments that
- attend to both process and product in instruction and evaluation
- include appropriate instructor feedback
- require that students apply feedback to revise their work
- extend and refine students’ editing skills
• require that each student engage in at least one significant formal as well as informal speaking activities that include appropriate instructor feedback