Transfers ToUC and CSUCal-GETC Area 1B · IGETC Area 1B · CSU GE Area A3DescriptionENGL C1001 Critical Thinking and Writing Units: 3 Hours: 54 hours LEC Prerequisite: College-level composition (ENGL C1000/ENGL C1000H/ENGL C1000E/C-ID ENGL 100) or equivalent Transferable: CSU; UC General Education: Local GE L1B; Cal-GETC Area 1B C-ID: C-ID ENGL 105 This course was formerly known as ENGWR 302 Advanced Composition and Critical Thinking. 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 (C-ID ENGL 100) or similar first-year college writing course. Students focus on critically assessing, developing, supporting, and effectively expressing persuasive opinions and arguments on issues in culturally diverse environments. Through reading, writing, and discussion, students examine methods by which an audience of readers is persuaded to think, believe, and act. Students identify, explore, and examine logical fallacies of arguments, analyze diverse arguments for soundness and validity, analyze various modes of discourse within diverse economic, political, environmental, social, and cultural contexts, and craft effective traditional and/or multimodal arguments designed with specific purposes for varying audiences. This course includes writing a minimum of 5,000 words (which includes full-process essays) and draws from various texts to present carefully reasoned arguments. At least one essay includes citations from primary and secondary sources, documented according to current MLA format. This course was formerly known as ENGWR 302 and is not open to students who have successfully completed ENGWR 302.Usually HeldMon Wed 9:00am–10:20am, Tue Thu 10:30am–11:50am, Tue Thu 9:00am–10:20am, Fri 9:00am–10:20am 