Faculty Resources Department Committees English 1302 Course Committee

English 1302 Course Committee

Chair: Dr. Sue Crowson
Email: scrowson@delmar.edu
Tel: 698-1432

Meeting Minutes

All full-time faculty automatically become members of the committees for the courses they teach. Responsibilities of each committee include:

  • Administering course assessment measures
  • Selecting textbooks
  • Monitoring unit plans
  • Reviewing and revising the general course syllabus
  • Providing a forum for exchanging ideas on how to improve instruction

Student Requirements/Educational Objectives for English 1302, through the core curriculum component in composition, is to enable the student to communicate effectively in clear and correct prose in a style appropriate to the subject, occasion, and audience. By the end of the course, therefore, students should be able to:

  • understand and demonstrate writing and speaking processes through in invention, organization, drafting, revision, editing, and presentation
  • understand the importance of specifying audience and purpose and to select appropriate communication choices
  • understand and appropriately apply modes of expression in written communication
  • participate effectively in groups with emphasis on listening, critical and reflective thinking, and responding
  • understand and apply basic principles of critical thinking, problem solving, and technical proficiency in the development of exposition and argument
  • develop the ability to research and write a documented paper