Summer 2021 Course Offerings
Summer Session A
English Composition 1: Introduction to University Discourse
TR 1:30pm
Duration: 6 Weeks
English Composition 1 serves as an essential orientation for students who can benefit from intensive work in reading and responding to university-level texts. (4 non-degree units)
English Composition 3: English Composition, Rhetoric and Language
MW 10am
Duration: 6 Weeks
This seminar-style course prepares students to write successfully at the University and beyond. Robust class discussions and challenging reading and writing assignments promote critical thinking, reading, and communication skills to help students succeed at UCLA and be engaged as campus and global citizens. A compelling class theme enables students to develop a strong academic voice, attend to rhetorical concerns, and analyze texts, including expository and creative works that may be in print, digital, visual, or musical form. English Composition 3 meets the College of Letters and Science Writing I requirement with a C or better. (5 units)
English Composition 5W: Literature, Culture, and Critical Inquiry
MW 1:30pm
Duration: 6 Weeks
This course focuses on analysis of literary works within a cultural context to engage students in critical thinking and writing about issues important to academic inquiry and responsible citizenship. Instructors select themes that connect literary texts to larger areas of inquiry. This course encourages students to use writing as a vehicle to explore, as well as demonstrate knowledge of, subject matter. Students who complete this course with a grade of C or better will satisfy the Writing II requirement and earn GE credit under the Literary and Cultural Analysis subset of the Arts and Humanities rubric. (5 units)
English Composition 130A: Professional Writing: Digital Writing and Web Literacy
MW 10am
Duration: 6 Weeks
Emphasis on writing for digital environments such as websites, blogs, newsletters, and social media. Common professional settings for these skills include journalism, political campaigns, Internet marketing, and corporate communication. (5 units)
English Composition 130D: Professional Writing: Non-Profits and Public Engagement
TR 1:30pm
Duration: 6 Weeks
Development of the ability to write persuasively and effectively in the nonprofit and public sectors. Writing genres include mission and vision statements, grant proposals, public service announcements, and outreach campaigns. (5 units)
English Composition 131C: Specialized Writing: Medicine and Public Health
TR 2pm
Duration: 6 Weeks
Advanced writing course designed to help students develop stylistic, formal, and argumentative sophistication in various rhetorical contexts, including different sections that emphasize rhetorical values of major professions and research areas. (4 units)
English Composition M138: Topics in Creative Writing: Nonfiction Essay in Journalism
TR 2pm
Duration: 6 Weeks
Students learn how to write magazine-quality creative nonfiction essays. Emphasis on narrative structure, news value, voice, and social value. Final project is 12-page essay at level of past final essays, which have won awards and scholarships. (5 units)
Summer Session C
English Composition 2: Approaches to University Writing
MW 1:30pm
Duration: 6 Weeks
English Composition 2 engages students in building foundational skills needed for university-level reading and writing tasks. This workshop-style course emphasizes argument, coherence and sentence-level clarity through the revision process. Students continue to build their academic writing skills when they progress to English Composition 3 with a C or better. (5 units)
English Composition 3: English Composition, Rhetoric and Language
MW 1:30pm
Duration: 6 Weeks
This seminar-style course prepares students to write successfully at the University and beyond. Robust class discussions and challenging reading and writing assignments promote critical thinking, reading, and communication skills to help students succeed at UCLA and be engaged as campus and global citizens. A compelling class theme enables students to develop a strong academic voice, attend to rhetorical concerns, and analyze texts, including expository and creative works that may be in print, digital, visual, or musical form. English Composition 3 meets the College of Letters and Science Writing I requirement with a C or better. (5 units)
English Composition 5W: Literature, Culture, and Critical Inquiry
MW 10am
Duration: 6 Weeks
This course focuses on analysis of literary works within a cultural context to engage students in critical thinking and writing about issues important to academic inquiry and responsible citizenship. Instructors select themes that connect literary texts to larger areas of inquiry. This course encourages students to use writing as a vehicle to explore, as well as demonstrate knowledge of, subject matter. Students who complete this course with a grade of C or better will satisfy the Writing II requirement and earn GE credit under the Literary and Cultural Analysis subset of the Arts and Humanities rubric. (5 units)
Summer ESL Courses
Summer ESL Program
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