Dual Credit English

English

Course Description

The first semester will be Introduction to Academic Prose which introduces students to college-level reading, writing, and discourse analysis: it engages students in the analysis and creation of texts that reveal multiple perspectives about specific rhetorical situations and cultural issues. In addition to learning how to revise by analyzing their own writing, students will learn to edit their own work and use proper academic documentation. The second semester will be Introduction to Popular Literature which is designed to help students develop a fuller understanding of the human condition by exploring a range of accessible, bestselling fiction and non-fiction from a variety of periods and places, historic and contemporary. The course may include popular stories, songs and ballads, the scripts of blockbuster plays and films, best-selling novels, and widely distributed nonfictional prose.

Prerequisites

English III and teacher recommendation or AP Language and Comp and teacher recommendation

Grade Level Offerings

Course Length

1 Year

Credits

1 (Optional: 6 College Credits)

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