New and Updated Course Descriptions

ENG 101 - College Composition

3 Credits

ENG 101 introduces students to college-level reading, writing, researching, and critical thinking through a process-based approach. Students analyze how various texts make meaning and practice purposeful rhetorical choices in their own writing. The course emphasizes clear communication, audience awareness, and developing a confident human voice. Students will complete writing projects that move from analysis to inquiry and research-based argument, using sources responsibly, including ethical consideration of AI tools. Attention to revision and sentence-level clarity will help students produce writing that is effective, adaptable, and grounded in sound reasoning.

Prerequisite(s): Placement into ENG 101/200, OR ENG 101 with co-requisite of TRS 099, OR completion of TRS 090 with a C or higher, OR ESL 201 with a C or higher.

Learning Attributes: UR

New SUNY General Education:
SUNY - Communication - Written and Oral
SUNY - Information Literacy with AI

MCC General Education: MCC-BCO - Speaking (MBCO), MCC-BCW - Writing (MBCW), MCC-IL - Information Literacy (MIL)

Course Learning Outcomes
1.Reading: Use critical and analytical reading strategies to understand how texts make meaning and influence audiences.
2.Rhetoric: Make purposeful rhetorical choices (about content, structure, genre, and language) to communicate clearly with specific audiences and contexts.
3.Composing: Use a flexible writing process (planning, drafting, revising, editing) to create coherent, well-developed writing that reflects a clear, confident human voice.
4.Researching: Use inquiry-based research practices (including evaluating sources and using information and AI tools ethically and transparently) to support thinking and writing.
5.Conventions: Apply sentence- and paragraph-level conventions across different writing situations to communicate clearly, accurately, and credibly.

Course Offered Fall, Spring