Assessments
AML2010: American Literature To 1900
Students will be introduced to works which represent the diverse literature emerging from America up until 1900. Works may be selected from authors such as Anne Bradstreet, James Fenimore Cooper, Kate Chopin, Emily Dickinson, Frederick Douglass, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Jacobs, Thomas Jefferson, Sarah Orne Jewett, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Rowlandson, Nat Turner, Mark Twain, and Walt Whitman. AML2010 is a writing course.
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AML2020: American Literature From 1900
Students will be introduced to works that represent the diverse literature emerging from America since 1900. Upon successful completion of the course, students will understand the significant concepts, contexts, movements, figures, and works of American literature in the 20th and 21st centuries. This is a writing credit course with International/ Intercultural content. Students must earn a minimum grade of C to meet the requirements of the Gordon Rule for writing.
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ENC1101: College Writing I
ENC 1101 is a university parallel course that requires students to learn and practice writing by creating original compositions, exploring basic rhetorical forms such as narration, exposition, and argumentation. Students also will develop research skills and learn to incorporate researched material through the writing process. ENC1101 is a writing credit course. Students must earn a minimum grade of “C” to meet the requirements of the Gordon Rule for Writing.
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ENC1102: College Writing II
Composition II is designed to further develop a student’s communication skills by building on the writing and critical thinking strategies learned in ENC1101. The course requires students to observe the conventions of Standard American English and create documented essays, demonstrating a student’s ability to think critically and communicate analytically. Selected texts supplement the course and provide topics for discussion and assignments. Students use library research methods for primary and secondary sources to produce MLA style-documented and well-argued research essays and/or projects. ENC1102 is a writing credit course. Students must earn a minimum grade of C to meet the requirements of the Gordon Rule for writing.
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Grading Criteria: Broward College
The main purpose of English Composition is to help you learn to write expository prose in such a way that a thoughtful, mature, educated reader will pay respectful attention to your ideas. The following criteria may guide your development as a writer. Note that these criteria are concerned only with measuring achievement, not with the amount of effort that goes into writing an essay.
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IDH2121: Narrative Representations in Media
This Honors Interdisciplinary Studies Seminar is the capstone course in the Honors Program. It is open to all Honors College Students who have attended Broward College for at least one term and have met half of the requirements for graduation from the Honors College. This course will be organized and unified around a specific theme, event, time period, issue/controversy, or concept which will then be explored through at least two distinct and discernible academic fields of study. These two or more academic fields of study will come from within or across one or more of the following Broward College’s Board Disciplinary Units: Visual/Performing Arts, Criminal Justice, Business, Social Sciences, Mathematics, Biological Sciences, Behavioral Sciences, Communication, Education, Natural Sciences, Computer Science, and English/Literature.
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