Composition Program at USI
Four English courses comprise the Rhetoric and Composition Program at the University of Southern Indiana.
- English 100 - Introduction to Rhetoric and Composition
- English 101 - Rhetoric and Composition I: Literacy and the Self
- English 201 - Rhetoric and Composition II: Literacy and the World
- English 301 - Advanced Composition
You can find out more about the courses below or found out more about all English courses in the USI Academic Bulletin found here.
ENG 100 - Introduction to Rhetoric and Composition
English 100 is a credit-bearing course designed to provide students additional practice developing, focusing, organizing, revising, and editing their writing to prepare for success in English 101.
Students in this course write three-four multi-page, typed essays with at least one revision of each and prepare an end-of-semester portfolio of their revised work with a reflection
ENG 100 - Introduction to Rhetoric and Composition
Credits: 3
A portfolio-based, preparatory course in reading, writing, reflection, and discussion, emphasizing rhetorical analysis and strategies for focusing, developing, and organizing writing. Special attention also is given to strategies for revising and editing writing. Course credits will apply as electives toward graduation.
Prerequisite(s): GENS 098 or appropriate placement, based on high school GPA and standardized test scores (SAT or ACT). Basic keyboarding skills required.
Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
Course can be found in the USI Bulletin
ENG 101 - Rhetoric and Composition I: Literacy and the Self
English 101 is a course in rhetoric and composition specifically designed to support the University Core 39 goals of expanding foundational skills in communication and critical thinking, and what Aristotle called "the art of rhetoric."
Students in this course engage critical thinking and rhetoric to compose three-four multi-page, typed essays with at least one revision of each that focuses on thinking and writing as processes of examining and developing knowledge that can be improved through reading, writing, speaking and listening. Rhetoric and critical thinking are synonymous to the degree that they are both about the relationship between claims and evidence, what's possible and why, what folks are generally willing to believe as true and how they've come to believe it.
ENG 101 - Rhetoric and Composition I: Literacy and the Self
Credits: 3
A course in the critical arts of reading, writing, reflection, and discussion, with an introduction to rhetoric and informal logic.
USI Core 39: Foundations-Rhetoric and Composition I
Prerequisite(s): ENG 100 (grade of C or better) or appropriate placement based on SAT Critical Reading and Writing Scores (or ACT equivalents), high school rank percentile, and English department placement essay. Basic keyboarding skills required.
This course is part of the Core Transfer Library (CTL)
This course meets the Indiana College Core (ICC)
Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Course can be found in the USI Bulletin
ENG 201 - Rhetoric and Composition II: Literacy and the World
English 201 is a course in rhetoric, composition, inquiry, and persuasion supported by credible evidence and research required to complete the University Core 39's Foundational Skills category.
Students in this course use questions for which they do not already have answers about issues of concern to them and their audience as investigative tools to examine issues on all sides to compose three-four multi-page, typed research essays with at least one revision of each. Persuasion or argument in this context should come to be understood as the study and analysis of claims and evidence rather than arguing to win.
ENG 201 - Rhetoric and Composition II: Literacy and the World
Credits: 3
A second course in the critical arts of reading, writing, reflection, and discussion emphasizing the responsibilities of written inquiry and structured reasoning.
USI Core 39: Foundations-Rhetoric and Composition II
Prerequisite(s): ENG 101 (grade of C or better), or approved equivalent
This course is part of the Core Transfer Library (CTL)
This course meets the Indiana College Core (ICC)
Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
ENG 301 - Advanced Composition
English 301 is a Core 39 embedded experience, interdisciplinary course in advanced composing techniques that applies rhetoric to conducting upper-level research, evidence-based writing about writing, and metacognitive reflection in the areas of their disciplinary majors.
Students engage in original research, presentation, and practice academic conventions for discipline-specific audiences, contexts, and purposes through approaches that recognize diverse writing situations and responses. Multiple, multipage, evaluated compositions in different genres developed through writing processes and revision based on instructor feedback, peer, and self-review are required.
ENG 301 - Advanced Composition
Credits: 3
A flexible course in advanced composition emphasizing the analysis of various rhetorical situations and the cultivation of prose styles appropriate to these situations.
USI Core 39: Embedded Experience-Writing
Prerequisite(s): ENG 201
Term(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Course can be found in the USI Bulletin