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

This course is designed to improve students' skills and techniques in critical reading, critical thinking, analysis, and logical reasoning in academic texts. Topics include advanced critical reading, logical reasoning and thinking, argument validation, analysis of extended argument, examination of valid and invalid inferences, and problem solving skills.

Units: 4
Prerequisites: Eligibility determined by the English placement process.
Enrollment Limitation: Not open to students with prior credit in ENGL 100, ENGL 100H, ENGL C1000, or ENGL C1000H.
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