Required Core: English Composition
Pathways Required Core
Students are required to take six (6) credits in this area, focusing on writing, reading and analytical skills.
Read
Read and listen critically and analytically, including identifying an argument’s major assumptions and assertions and evaluating its supporting evidence.
Write
Write clearly and coherently in varied, academic formats (such as formal essays, research papers and reports) using standard English and appropriate technology to critique and improve one’s own and others’s texts.
Demonstrate
Demonstrate research skills using appropriate technology, including gathering, evaluating, and synthesizing primary and secondary sources.
Support
Support a thesis with well-reasoned arguments, and communicate persuasively across a variety of contexts, purposes, audiences, and media.
Formulate
Formulate original ideas and relate them to the ideas of others by employing the conventions of ethical attribution and citation.
