ENGL 52: College Composition Skills and Support

Units: 2
Prerequisites: ACE 149, ENGL 49, ESL 149, or eligibility determined by the English placement process
Corequisite: ENGL 100
Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in ACE 150, ENGL 50, or ESL 150.
Lecture 2 hours.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

This course offers intensive practice in the skills needed to read college-level texts and compose college-level essays. It provides support in developing skills and strategies for success in transfer-level writing classes. Students enrolling in this course must also enroll in ENGL 100.

ENGL 100: Composition and Reading

Units: 4
Prerequisites: ESL 150, or eligibility determined by the English placement process.
Enrollment Limitation: Concurrent enrollment in ENGL 52 or NCENG 52 if prerequisites not met and not open to students with prior credit in ENGL 100H.
Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC
Lecture 4 hours.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer

This introductory course offers instruction in expository and argumentative writing, appropriate and effective use of language, close reading, cogent thinking, research strategies, information literacy, and documentation. By building upon student experiences and validating them as creators of knowledge, this course helps students believe in their innate capacity to learn. Students develop critical reading, thinking, and writing strategies for a variety of communication situations through an engagement with course content that is reflective of a racially just curriculum and that supports the principles of a Hispanic Serving Institution designation. C-ID ENGL-100

ENGL 100H: Composition and Reading (Honors)

Units: 4
Prerequisites: ESL 150, or eligibility determined by the English placement process.
Enrollment Limitation: Concurrent enrollment in ENGL 52 or NCENG 52 if prerequisites not met and not open to students with prior credit in ENGL 100.
Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC
Lecture 4 hours.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer

This introductory course offers students instruction in expository and argumentative writing, appropriate and effective use of language, close reading, cogent thinking, research strategies, information literacy, and documentation. By building upon student experiences and validating them as creators of knowledge, this course helps students believe in their innate capacity to learn. Students develop critical reading, thinking, and writing strategies for a variety of communication situations through an engagement with course content that is reflective of a racially just curriculum and that supports the principles of a Hispanic Serving Institution designation. C-ID ENGL-100

ENGL 201: Critical Thinking, Composition, and Literature

Units: 4
Prerequisites: ENGL 100 or ENGL 100H.
Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in ENGL 201H.
Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC
Lecture 4 hours.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer

Designed to continue the critical thinking, reading, and writing practice begun in ENGL 100, this course teaches critical thinking, reading, composition, research, and argument using literature as the basis for analysis. This course is designed for students who seek to satisfy both the full-year composition and the critical-thinking transfer requirements. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for ENGL 201 or ENGL 201H. C-ID ENGL-110.

ENGL 201H: Critical Thinking, Composition, and Literature (Honors)

Units: 4
Prerequisites: ENGL 100 or ENGL 100H.
Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in ENGL 201.
Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC
Lecture 4 hours.
Course Typically Offered: Fall or Spring

This course offers enhanced instruction in critical thinking, critical writing, and research using the genres of literature (poetry, drama, short story, and novel). It is intended for students who seek to satisfy the full-year composition and critical-thinking transfer requirements. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for ENGL 201 or ENGL 201H. C-ID ENGL-110.

ENGL 202: Critical Thinking and Composition

Units: 4
Prerequisites: ENGL 100 or ENGL 100H.
Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in ENGL 202H.
Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC
Lecture 4 hours.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer

This course emphasizes critical thinking, particularly in the reading and writing of argument. Content includes methods of analysis; principles of logic, including the relationship between language and logic; techniques of reasoning, including the use of evidence; techniques of style; and research skills. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for ENGL 202 or ENGL 202H. C-ID ENGL-105.

ENGL 202H: Critical Thinking and Composition (Honors)

Units: 4
Prerequisites: ENGL 100 or ENGL 100H.
Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in ENGL 202.
Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC
Lecture 4 hours.
Course Typically Offered: Fall or Spring

This course emphasizes critical thinking, particularly in the reading and writing of argument. Content includes methods of analysis; principles of logic, including the relationship between language and logic; techniques of reasoning, including the use of evidence; techniques of style; and research skills. It is intended for students who seek to satisfy the full-year composition and critical-thinking transfer requirements. UC CREDIT LIMITATION: Credit for ENGL 202 or ENGL 202H. C-ID ENGL-105.

ENGL 280: Creative Writing

Units: 3
Prerequisites: ESL 150 or eligibility determined by the English placement process.
Acceptable for Credit: CSU, UC
Lecture 3 hours.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring

This course focuses on the elements of creative writing, particularly through the study and creation of prose fiction and poetry. It offers practice in various genres and forms, based on instructor approach, and it promotes the writing process through a combination of drafting exercises and revision strategies. Utilizing workshops as the primary mode of instruction, this course offers the opportunity to produce creative works for publication, performance, and/or personal enrichment. C-ID ENGL-200.

ENGL 292: Internship Studies

Units: 0.5-14
Prerequisites: None
Corequisite: Complete 54 hours of work per unit, paid or unpaid.
Enrollment Limitation: Instructor, dept chair, and Career Center approval. Fourteen unit maximum in any combination of work experience education and/or internship studies per semester.
Acceptable for Credit: CSU
Course Typically Offered: To be arranged

This course provides students the opportunity to apply the theories and techniques of their discipline in an internship position in a professional setting under the instruction of a faculty-mentor and site supervisor. It introduces students to aspects of the roles and responsibilities of professionals employed in the field of study. Topics include goal-setting, employability skills development, and examination of the world of work as it relates to the student's career plans. Students must develop new learning objectives and/or work/intern at a new site upon each enrollment.

ENGL 295: Publishing Practicum

Units: 3
Prerequisites: None
Acceptable for Credit: CSU
Lecture 3 hours.
Course Typically Offered: Fall or Spring

This work-based learning course gives students experience researching and applying best publishing practices to the annual edition of Tidepools, MiraCosta's journal of creative writing and visual art. In collaboration with the Media Arts & Technologies Department responsible for the journal's design and layout, students read, evaluate, and make informed editorial decisions about content submissions. The course also provides students the opportunity to promote the journal through social media and other marketing materials as well as at campus and community events.

ENGL 296: Topics in English

Units: 1-3
Prerequisites: None
Acceptable for Credit: CSU
Lecture 1 hour.
Lecture 2 hours.
Lecture 3 hours.
Course Typically Offered: To be arranged

This course gives students an opportunity to study topics in English that are not included in regular course offerings. Each Topics course is announced, described, and given its own title and 296 number designation in the class schedule.