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ENG 101: COURSE GOALS & OBJECTIVES
Learning to write well at the college level is a complex endeavor. Building upon what students learned in high school, the first-year writing sequence at SIUE is designed to help students in becoming college writers by providing quality instruction in a theoretically grounded program. We maintain six goals that should be met in English 101, the first course in that sequence. Students who participate actively in their own education, invest in the writing process, and engage in dialogue about their writing can expect to meet the following goals with some measure of success.
This document is designed to communicate those goals to students, parents, faculty, administrators, and others interested in the first-year writing program at SIUE. While we have tried to make these goals accessible to the general reader, terms such as "rhetorical strategies" and "discourse community" have rich and complex meanings to professional writing teachers, meanings that cannot necessarily be fully articulated to the general public in this brief document.
Underneath each goal, we offer objectives -- or strategies -- that individual teachers may use to facilitate students in reaching these goals. Instructors may employ additional pedagogically sound objectives as they see fit.
In addition, each goal is designed to foster one or more of SIUE's College of Arts & Sciences (CAS) "Desired Characteristics and Capabilities of Graduates." These desired characteristics reflect the college's and university's commitment to the intrinsic value of a well-rounded undergraduate education.
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Goal #1: Students will gain an understanding of rhetorical strategies and processes of analyzing and composing a variety of print, visual, and digital media.
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Related Objectives:
- Work with texts and learn to interpret, incorporate, and evaluate them
- Explore the multiple facets (ideological, social, cultural, political, economic, historical) of issues and use writing to construct informed, critical positions about these topics
- Use various technological tools to explore texts
- Encourage the use of multi-sensory engagement with texts and in writing assignments
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This goal and its related objectives are designed to foster the development of the following "Desired Characteristics and Capabilities of Graduates.":
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Goal #2: Students will gain a meta-awareness of their own development as writers
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Related Objectives:
- Engage in peer-reviewing activities
- Participate in self-assessment activities, i.e. evaluate individual's own writing assignments based upon assignment criteria
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This goal fosters this CAS "Desired Characteristic":
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Goal #3: Students will use writing as a way of thinking through topics and ideas.
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Related Objectives:
- Engage in prewriting, journal writing, and class discussion techniques, such as traditional group discussions, listservs, chats, web forums, and email
- Write multiple drafts
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This goal fosters these CAS "Desired Characteristics":
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Goal #4: Students will understand and use writing strategies and processes to analyze and write about issues that are important to specific audiences and specific purposes.
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Related Objectives:
- Read, discuss, and write about texts
- Revise to accommodate specific audience and purpose
- Articulate and respond to opposing viewpoints
- Explore the writing situation as a tool of personal and civic empowerment
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This goal fosters these CAS "Desired Characteristics":
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Goal #5: Students will analyze the conventions of and write effectively in the university discourse community.
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Related Objectives:
- Read, analyze, and write about texts from various academic discourses
- Investigate the principles of evidence used in academic writing, examining the characteristics of academic discourses
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This goal fosters these CAS "Desired Characteristics":
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Goal #6: Students will gain opportunities to collaborate effectively.
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Related Objectives:
- Conferencing
- Collaborate in group writing projects
- Use OWL's and Writing Centers
- Participate in teacher conferences
- Collaborate on writing projects with students from other schools
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This goal fosters these CAS "Desired Characteristics":
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