Number and Title of Course:    English 100, Language and Composition

 

Length of Course:  One semester (Fourteen weeks)

 

Classroom Hours Per Week:  Five classroom hours per week  (a mixture of lecture, workshop and seminar)

 

Number of Credit Units:  Three credits

 

Prerequisite:  C or better in English 099, Communications 12 or Writing 099

 

Description of Course: A course in the fundamentals of college reading and writing. Students will analyze  college level prose and write short academic papers for a variety of purposes. Attention will be devoted to process in writing, rhetorical strategies and to problems in paragraph development, grammar, mechanics and style. Through the writing of a research paper, students will be introduced to research techniques and forms of documentation.

 

Written Assignments: Students will write three essays (of about 600 words each), one research paper (approximately 1500 words)

 

 

Textbooks: To be announced

 

Transferability:  UBC English 112, SFU English 100 level, UVic English 115, UNBC English 100 level

 

Steve Barnes , B.Sc. (Alberta), M.A. (British Columbia)
Zeferino Cabrita, B.A., B.F.A., M.A. (British Columbia)
Dilek Cansin, B.A. (Macalester College), M.A. (British Columbia)
Debra Clarke, B.Sc., M.A., TESL Cert (British Columbia)
Leah Kaser, B.A. (British Columbia), M.Ed. (Lesley College)
Angela Lavery, B.A., B.Ed., (Toronto), M.A. (British Columbia)
Nicola Maher, B.A. (British Columbia), M.A. (Sussex)
Leslie Mercer, B.A.(British Columbia), M.A. (University College Dublin)
Denis Roberts, B.A., P.D.P., M.A. (Simon Fraser)
Jim Smith, B.Ed., M.Ed. (British Columbia), M.A.(Simon Fraser)
Gary Swanson, B.A. (Simon Fraser), M.A. (British Columbia)