ENGL 1001 - Critical Thinking and Writing

    Recent Professors
    Sarah Steger, Caroline Scott, Elizabeth Carlyle, Michael Tischler, Jennifer Gomes
    Recent Semesters
    Summer 2025, Spring 2025, Winter 2025, Fall 2024, Summer 2024
    Class Size
    25 students
    Credits
    3
    Prerequisite
    ENGL C1000 - Academic Reading and Writing Prerequisites: College-level composition (ENGL C1000/ ENGL C1000H/ ENGL C1000E/C-ID ENGL 100) or equivalent Minimum Grade: C Condition: or Qualification by Assessment Healthy/Safety: Additional: Outcomes Compose and revise source-based essays using a variety of rhetorical strategies appropriate for an academic audience. Critically read and respond to primarily non-fiction academic texts. Locate, evaluate, and interpret primary and secondary sources for academic writing.
    Summer 2025 Sections
    View Summer 2025 sections of ENGL 1001
    Transfers To
    Not transferable
    Description
    In this course, students receive instruction in critical thinking for purposes of constructing, evaluating, and composing arguments in a variety of rhetorical forms, using primarily non-fiction texts, refining writing skills and research strategies developed in ENGL C1000 Academic Reading and Writing (or C-ID ENGL 100) or similar first-year college writing course. This course offers instruction in argumentation and critical writing through analytical evaluation of primarily non-fiction texts. Key topics include the principles of rhetoric and critical thinking, research strategies, information literacy, and documentation. The course requires frequent writing assignments totaling a minimum of 5,000 words.
    Usually Held
    Mon Wed 12:10pm–2:15pm, Tue Thu 9:00am–11:05am, Mon Tue Wed Thu 8:05am–9:00am, Mon Wed 10:35am–12:40pm