Courses

English 109.01 and 109.02: Intensive Writing and Reading I and II
These 5-hour courses meet three days each week for 1 hour and 18 minutes. You will take English 109.01 first and then, preferably the following quarter, English 109.02. After taking both of these courses, you will enroll in English 110.01/02/03. Both 109.01 and 109.02 are small classes with no more than 15 students. Individual syllabi vary somewhat, but most courses ask students to investigate a theme, such as "Growth and Change in Adolescence," through intensive writing and reading. The goal of this course sequence is to give students practice doing college-level reading and writing projects.

English 110.03 and 193.03: Composition, Intensive Version
This combined 7-hour course meets four days each week for 1 hour and 18 minutes. For three of the days, you will meet as a full class with your instructor; on the fourth day, students meet at a site outside your regular classroom to do work in a different context. (For more information about the two versions of English 110.03 and 193.03, see below.) You will receive 5 credit hours for English 110.03 and 2 credit hours for English 193.03; however, your grades are based on the work you do in the entire combined course. You must enroll for both for these courses to receive credit. Your English 110.03 class will contain no more than 15 students, and you will do intensive reading and writing about such topics as literacy, language communities, and identity and culture.

English 110.03 and 193.03: Peer Group Version
If you are enrolled in a Peer-Group version of English 110.03, you will spend one class session each week meeting with a peer group. As part of the requirements for that course, you and several other students from your class will meet weekly in a peer writing group with a peer writing consultant (PWC). These PWCs are undergraduate students who have completed English 110.0 and are being trained in tutoring through English 467, "Writing and Learning." Together, the members of your group will decide on activities that can help and support your 110.03 writing and reading assignments.

English 110.03 and 193.03: Service Learning Version
If you are enrolled in a Service-Learning version of English 110.03, you will spend one class session each week working with a service project outside of class. Students in your class will travel to Trevitt Elementary School, located at (fill in the blank), on Tuesdays from (time) to help tutor elementary school students in their after-school program. There you will help students with their homework and guide them in practicing their reading and writing skills. These activities will part of your required work for your English 110.03 class, and you will write about your experiences at Trevitt in your English class assignments.

English 110B01 and 193.03
First -Year Composition, Continuing Education Bridge Program
Every Autumn Quarter, Continuingd Education and the Department of English offer a version of first-year writing for students in the Bridge Program designed to serve OSU employees. Learn more about this program.

In this course, students will explore the theme of work and identity in reading/writing and class discussion. The readings for the course consist of personal narratives and biographical profiles of many different people in many different professions which are both traditional and unusual. How people talk about themselves in relation to their work reveals a lot about American cultural values and the myths and stereotypes about certain professions. Students will explore their own experiences with work and those of their classmates to analyze larger issues in the culture. The course will focus on personal experiences and observations and students will use personal writing and perspectives to develop argumentative and analytical papers.

English 467: Writng and Learning
This course focuses on theories and practices in tutoring and writing. The aim of this course is to explore the writing-learning connections and to prepare students to work as writing consultants/tutors for small writing groups. Each 467 student will facilitate a weekly peer-writing group, consisting of students currently enrolled in English 110.03, outside of the scheduled class time. The peer-writing groups are a major component of the course. Through the experience of facilitating the groups, as well as through readings and other class assignments, students will better understand their own writing processes. This class is particularly useful for students who are planning careers as teachers, students considering graduate school in any field, students interested in working in a tutoring capacity in the future, as well as anyone interested in improving their own writing and learning more about teaching writing. This course also counts as an elective for the College of Humanities Minor in Professional Writing.

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