ENGL 1003: Critical Thinking and Writing through Literature

• Common Course Language: Critically read, analyze, compare, and evaluate diverse complex literary texts.
• Common Course Language: Reflect critically on one’s own thought processes to identify and avoid cognitive biases and common fallacies of language and thought.
• Common Course Language: Compose thesis-driven arguments to suit a variety of rhetorical situations, including interpretation, evaluation, and literary analysis, supporting them with a variety of appropriate textual evidence and examples.
• Common Course Language: Identify a text's premise(s) and/or assumptions in various social, historical, cultural, psychological, or aesthetic contexts.
• Common Course Language: Analyze and employ logical and structural methods such as inductive and deductive reasoning, causation, and supporting claims with reasons, evidence, and responding to diverse perspectives and values.
• Common Course Language: Find, analyze, interpret, and evaluate primary and secondary sources, incorporating them into written work using appropriate documentation format without plagiarism.
• Common Course Language: Draft and revise writing for style, diction, and tone showing awareness of audience and social context, and the purpose of the specific writing task; engage in a revision process so that language use does not impede clarity or disrupt meaning.
• Common Course Language: Draft and revise writing for style, diction, and tone showing awareness of audience and social context, and the purpose of the specific writing task; engage in a revision process so that language use does not impede clarity or disrupt meaning.
• Common Course Language: Define common literary terms and apply these to analysis of specific texts.

Common Course Language:

• Writing and active reading skills for logical reasoning and argumentation.
• A minimum of 3 literary genres, including poetry, drama, and fiction (novel and/or short story) from diverse authors representing a wide range of cultures, ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations, and socioeconomic backgrounds.
• Critical approaches to literature and effective use of literary terms and devices.
• Explication, interpretation, and literary analysis.
• Writing critically about literature.
• Minimum 5,000 words of revised formal writing.

Citrus College Details:

• Write one Research essay of 2000 to 3500-words following MLA formatting and documentation methods and using secondary sources.