Required/Elective for students Gr. 12
Prerequisite: Successful completion of English 11, instructor approval, and SMSU College Now eligibility requirements (3.0 GPA)
Required Supplies: None
Offered: Every year
Duration: Traditional semester
High School Credit: .5 credit
College Credit: 4 credits through SMSU
ENG 151 is the primary entry-level writing class for all SMSU students and is one of the core first-year liberal arts classes. ENG 151 serves as a beginning point for helping students engage in the LAC goal to “communicate effectively.” Towards this end, ENG 151 will enable students to determine a writing purpose, generate ideas to support a topic, determine an audience, develop a focus, and organize a written text, beginning with more personal, or “reflective,” writing and moving on to expository writing and argument. At least two of these papers will involve a research component through which students begin to learn the conventions of citation and documentation. Furthermore, the class will enable students to learn how purpose and audience affect the content, language, and form of a written text. Students must meet minimum writing objectives as determined by the SMSU English Department’s placement procedures in order to be placed into this course.
Required/Elective for students Gr. 12
Prerequisite: Successful completion of English 11, instructor approval, and SMSU College Now eligibility requirements (3.0 GPA ).
Required Supplies: None
Offered: Every year
Duration: Traditional semester
High School Credit: .5 credit
College Credit: 3 credits through SMSU
This course introduces students to multicultural literature. Students read, analyze, discuss, and write about works that explore a range of sociocultural identities or experiences, such as race/ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, and disability. Students must meet minimum objectives as determined by the SMSU English Department’s placement procedures to be placed into this course.