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Sep 01, 2024
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2023-2024 Catalog: September 2023 Edition [ARCHIVED]
English for Transfer, AA-T
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The curriculum emphasizes the integration of reading and writing throughout its courses reflecting the faculty’s belief that the study of language includes the study of culture. English students examine a broad range of topics within composition, creative writing, and literature. Upon completion of the Associate in Arts in English for Transfer (AA-T in English) students will be able to read, write, and think critically in producing essays and original work that demonstrates the craft of a given genre. Additionally, students will be able to interpret literary texts within their contexts, reflecting diversity in genre, historical period, and cultural expression. The proposed Associate in Arts in English for Transfer (AA-T in English) is designed to assist students in the seamless transferring to a CSU and complete a Bachelor’s Degree in English.
Pursuant to SB 1440, section 66756, to earn an AA-T in English, students must:
- Completion of 60 semester units or 90 quarter units of degree-applicable courses,
- Minimum overall grade point average of 2.0,
- Minimum grade of “C” (or “P”) for each course in the major, and
- Completion of IGETC and/or CSU GE-Breadth.
Program Student Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this program, students will be able to:
- Literature: Interpret literature critically and imaginatively, and respond in writing that is clear, exact, and expressive.
- Demonstrate through both speaking and writing how literature might embody and generate meaning, reflect and create culture, and engage the human imagination.
- Analyze the major types of literary expression as well as recurrent conventions, concerns, and values central to literature and to the understanding of literary texts and contexts.
- Possess knowledge of literary materials reflecting diversity in genre, historical period, cultural expression and non-canonical texts, including those of marginalized peoples and emergent cultures whose literature has traditionally been ignored.
- Writing: Demonstrate proficiency in essential, course-appropriate skills in reading, research, critical and creative problem solving, speaking, and writing in order to produce, within a literary genre, original work that demonstrates an understanding of both the writing process and the stylistic craft choices of the genre.
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Complete the following courses:
List A: Select two (6 units):
List B: Select one (3 units) - Any course from List A not already used, or the following:
List C: Select one (3 units) - Any course from List A or B not already used, or the following:
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