Critical Thinking and Writing

Catalog description

<b><font color="7A0018">Begins Fall 2025. Effective Fall 2025, ENGL-C1001 replaces ENGL/PHIL-13</b></font><br> In this course, students receive instruction in critical thinking for purposes of constructing, evaluating, and composing arguments in a variety of rhetorical forms, using primarily non-fiction texts, refining writing skills and research strategies developed in ENGL C1000 College Reading and Writing (C-ID ENGL 100) or similar first-year college writing course. Readings feature mostly non-fictional essays and books that reflect diverse cultural perspectives on a variety of contemporary issues, such as those involving race, ethnicity, and gender.