English 102 is required for all University of Alabama students. Composition II is designed to assist students to further develop their communication skills, research their ideas, and write effectively. This course continues students’ practice in rhetorical strategies, critical reading and thinking skills, composing processes, sentence-level conventions, and reflection—skills essential to participate successfully in The University of Alabama discourse community.
Additional Course Description:
Through activities focused on research and synthesizing the perspectives of other writers with your own, you will develop critical thinking and writing skills that will serve you well in your academic studies and beyond.
Readings and discussions in this course will be provided to promote idea generation and exploration of research topics. Many of the readings are informed by disability studies, an area of research that developed in the years following the disability rights movement. Assigned readings are not intended to shape students into experts in disability studies. Rather, the objective is to encourage students to engage with disability in ways that complicate and challenge assumptions about the permanence of the body as a form, as well as our relationships as writers with the various forms that written communication takes. Centering disability as a category for critical analysis will assist students to consider the issues that more broadly define identity and belonging
EN102 is a continuation of students’ practice in rhetorical strategies, critical reading and thinking skills, composing processes, sentence-level conventions, and reflection skills. The course also emphasizes university-level research and source usage techniques. Intended for native speakers of English. Grades are reported as A, B, C, or NC (No Credit). A grade of C- or higher is required as a prerequisite for advancing to another
English course at The University of Alabama. Offered each semester and in summer school. EN 102 does not apply as credit to the English major or minor.
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