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• ELEC 813: Advocacy and Family, School and Community Engagement

  3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course examines the role of school, family and community engagements as a component of educational reform. The focus is to analyze the research reflecting the impact of home/school and community/school partnerships on student learning. Furthermore, this course will seek to explore the various theoretical frameworks that focus on family types, cultlures, economic conditions, school systems, community services, political forces, advocacy groups and other additional factors that impact young children and their families with special needs. A framework for conceptualizing child/family policy, roles professionals can play in building advocacy/policy and approaches professionals can use in implementing these roles will also be investigated.
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• ENGL 101: Introduction to College Writing

  3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  In this course, students will investigate the purposes, both academic and non-academic, for writing and reading. Students will learn to identify meaning and draw inferences from context cues. They will develop increased writing fluency, clarity, and coherence; a fuller understanding if rhetorical principles, including invention, organization, and audience; improved strategies for revising and editing their prose, emphasizing the standards of edited American English; and an understanding of writing and reading as tools for learning and communication.Students should take this course before taking 102 by advisement, by their own choice, of if any one of the following applies to them: if the SAT Verbal score is 399 or less. if the SAT Writing score is 399 or less, or if the ACT Writing score is 11 or less.
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• ENGL 102: Critical Writing

  3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  Students will develop an understanding of rhetorical principles, including invention, organization, and audience, along with strategies for revising and editing their prose that emphasize clarity, coherence, and support. They will learn to develop positions on selected issues and questions and compose strongly supported and reasoned arguments regarding those issues and questions. Finally, they will learn basic information literacy skills, which will include how to locate, evaluate, and incorporate a variety of sources into their writing. They will use these to conduct independent research and integrate it into a written essay.
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• ENGL 103: College Writing II

  3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  In this course, students will learn to read academic and persuasive discourse in an active, critical manner; develop deliberated positions on selected issues and questions; compose strongly supported and reasoned arguments regarding those issues and questions; acquire information literacy skills, learning efficient and productive strategies for research from both print and online sources; and complete documented essays which effectively integrate source materials into a persuasive whole.
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• ENGL 104: Critical Reading

  3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  Students will refine and extend understanding of the rhetorical principles introduced in Critical Writing, applying them through the critical reading and analysis of complex texts. The texts to be considered will be drawn from a variety of media, genres, historical periods and diverse cultures. Students will examine the methods authors use in developing and expressing ideas to meet the needs of particular audiences and historical moments. They will practice extracting implied meanings, analyzing purpose, tone and style, and assessing casual factors and rhetorical effects to critical reading. As a reading, intensive course, English 104 will reinforce and refine compositional skills introduced in Critical Writing.
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• ENGL 139: Foundations of Academic Discovery

  3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  Foundations of Academic Discovery serves as the entry point to the Rock Integrated Studies Program. With its strong faculty-student interaction, the course promotes intellectual inquiry, critical and creative thinking, and academic excellence. Through varied content, the course introduces students to academic discourse and information literacy while exploring topics such as diversity and inclusion and global awareness. This course will set students along the path to becoming engaged with issues and scholarship important to a 21st century education while they learn about themselves and their place in the world.
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• ENGL 150: Writing to Discover

  1.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  An intensive writers' workshop where participants and facilitators work individually and in small groups to fine-tune the craft of their writing. Course may be repeated up to 4 credits.
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• ENGL 180: Society on the Screen

  3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  Society on the Screen asks students to examine the question that humanist approaches ask what is the human experience? and to explore what answers film might offer. Students will identify and practice historical, philosophical, cultural and literary methods of inquiry and research.
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• ENGL 190: Experimental

  1.00 - 3.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  A unique and specifically focused course within the general purview of a department which intends to offer it on a "one time only" basis and not as a permanent part of the department's curriculum.
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• ENGL 195: Workshop

  1.00 - 6.00 Credits

  Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

  
  A workshop is a program which is usually of short duration, narrow in scope, often non-traditional in content and format, and on a timely topic.
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