Dual Credit English

03220400 Dual Credit English 1301 (Fall) and 1302 (Spring)

Recommended Grade Levels: 12

Prerequisite: GPA of 3.0 at end of junior year.  Must complete all admission requirements for Blinn, including a passing mark on the Reading and Writing sections of the TSI Assessment and payment of semester tuition.  Successful credit in English 1301 required for English 1302.

Credit: 1 (0.5 for 1301 and 0.5 for 1302)

Description: Reading and writing-intensive composition course.  Further develops the analytical, thinking, and research skills underlying academic success through the study of literature.  The student’s writing of genre-based essays, including researched papers, reinforces the thinking skills associated with interpretation, explication, evaluation, analysis, and synthesis.  Essays, including a 1500-2000 word documented library research-based paper, are required.  

College credit:  Three semester college hours for 1301 and three semester college hours for 1302.