San Diego Mesa College Writing and English Entry and Exit Skills
Course Name
Entering Skills
Exiting Skills (Student Learning Outcomes)
A student who is eligible for this course will be A student who successfully completes this
able to:
course will be able to:
English 43 – English Review Follow oral and written instructions in English.
Read pre-college and basic college level texts
(formerly English 50)
for the purposes of writing and class
(two levels below Writing)
Read and comprehend simple sentences in discussion.
English.
Practice and apply appropriate strategies from
Participate in all class activities, including such the writing process including pre-writing,
things as listening to and comprehending the composing, revising, and editing techniques.
instructor’s presentation of information, engaging
in class discussions, and working in small groups. Plan and write sentences, paragraphs, and
basic compositions (for a total of 2,500-3,000
graded words) that are clear, unified, and
purposeful on personal and non-personal or
abstract topics.
Produce in-class paragraphs and basic
compositions that demonstrate organizing,
composing, revising and editing skills.
Practice and apply appropriate mechanical
and grammatical structures in the production
and editing of sentences, paragraphs, and basic
compositions.
Apply critical thinking in reading, writing,
and class discussion.
Employ study skills and habits necessary for
further academic success.
San Diego Mesa College Writing and English Entry and Exit Skills
Course Name
English 51 – Basic
Composition
Entering Skills
A student who is eligible for this course will be
able to:
Read pre-college and basic college level texts for
the purposes of writing and class discussion.
one level below Writing
Exiting Skills (Student Learning Outcomes)
A student who successfully completes this
course will be able to:
Read and analyze expository prose as a basis
for writing, class discussion, and reading skill
enhancement.
Practice and apply appropriate strategies from the
writing process including pre-writing, composing, Use appropriate strategies from the writing
revising, and editing techniques.
process including pre-writing, composing,
revising, and editing techniques, considering
Plan and write sentences, paragraphs, and basic audience and purpose.
compositions (for a total of 2,500-3,000 graded
words) that are clear, unified, and purposeful on Plan, write, and revise essays and other
personal and non-personal or abstract topics.
assignments comprising a total of 4,000-5,000
graded words in compositions that are unified,
Produce in-class paragraphs and basic developed, purposeful, and appropriate in tone
compositions that demonstrate organizing, for the intended audience.
composing, revising and editing skills.
Produce in-class essays that demonstrate
Practice and apply appropriate mechanical and organizing, composing, revising, editing, and
grammatical structures in the production and time-management skills.
editing of sentences, paragraphs, and basic
compositions.
Apply an intermediate knowledge of
appropriate mechanical and grammatical
Apply critical thinking in reading, writing, and structures to support essay development and
successful expression of meaning.
class discussion.
Employ study skills and habits necessary for
further academic success.
Apply critical thinking skills to reading,
writing and class discussion on academic as
well as personal topics.
San Diego Mesa College Writing and English Entry and Exit Skills
Course Name
English 101 – Reading and
Composition
Entering Skills
A student who is eligible for this course will be
able to:
Read and analyze expository prose as a basis for
writing, class discussion, and reading skill
enhancement.
Exiting Skills (Student Learning Outcomes)
A student who has successfully completed this
course will be able to:
Read, analyze, discuss and evaluate a variety
of works and sources to identify arguments as
well as patterns and strategies of organization.
Use appropriate strategies from the writing
process including pre-writing, composing,
revising, and editing techniques, considering
audience and purpose.
Write, revise and edit a variety of assignments
which will total at least 6,000 graded words
written outside of class using appropriate
techniques from the writing process as well as
incorporating rhetorical strategies.
Plan, write, and revise essays and other
assignments comprising a total of 4,000-5,000
graded words in compositions that are unified,
developed, purposeful, and appropriate in tone for
the intended audience.
Integrate advanced knowledge of mechanical
and grammatical structures in writing to create
effective sentences and to show relationships
across sentences as well as paragraphs.
Produce in-class essays that demonstrate Select a variety of research strategies and
organizing, composing, revising, editing, and time- utilize appropriate documentation in papers
management skills.
requiring research.
Apply an intermediate knowledge of appropriate Evaluate and apply critical thinking in the
mechanical and grammatical structures to support process of reading and writing as well as in
essay development and successful expression of class discussion.
meaning.
Apply critical thinking skills to reading, writing
and class discussion on academic as well as
personal topics.
San Diego Mesa College Writing and English Entry and Exit Skills
Course Name
English 105 – Composition and
Literature
Entering Skills
A student who is eligible for this course will
be able to:
Read and analyze expository prose as a basis
for writing, class discussion, and reading skill
enhancement.
Exiting Skills (Student Learning Outcomes)
A student who successfully completes this
course will be able to:
Read, summarize, and critically interpret
literary works of fiction, drama, and poetry.
Write clear and coherent essays on expository
Use appropriate strategies from the writing and argumentative topics related to literature,
process including pre-writing, composing, using the elements and characteristics of that
revising, and editing techniques, considering literature.
audience and purpose.
Interpret representative examples of the
Plan, write, and revise essays and other standard literary genres and analyze them
assignments comprising a total of 4,000-5,000 according to basic literary theories.
graded words in compositions that are unified,
developed, purposeful, and appropriate in Read academic expository and argumentative
tone for the intended audience.
literary criticism related to literary topics for
main points, interpretation, meaning, and
Produce in-class essays that demonstrate structure, and summarize, interpret, and analyze
organizing, composing, revising, editing, and this criticism.
time-management skills.
Write college research papers that demonstrate
Apply an intermediate knowledge of both proper documentation and adequate library
appropriate mechanical and grammatical research.
structures to support essay development and
successful expression of meaning.
Evaluate and apply critical thinking in the
process of reading and writing as well as in class
discussion.
Apply critical thinking skills to reading,
writing and class discussion on academic as
well as personal topics.
Interpret influence of literary context, including
historical, social, political, and cultural
perspectives.
San Diego Mesa College Writing and English Entry and Exit Skills
Course Name
Entering Skills
A student who is eligible for this course
will be able to:
Exiting Skills (Student Learning
Outcomes)
A student who successfully completes this
course will be able to:
English 205 – Critical Thinking and Read, analyze, discuss and evaluate a Apply the principles of critical reasoning
Intermediate Composition
variety of works and sources to identify to the reading and writing of complex and
arguments as well as patterns and sophisticated material.
strategies of organization.
Apply the principles of college-level
Write, revise and edit a variety of academic writing to complex and
assignments which will total at least 6,000 sophisticated topics in exposition and
graded words written outside of class using argumentation.
appropriate techniques from the writing
process as well as incorporating rhetorical Develop and demonstrate orally and in
strategies.
writing strong, focused, research-based
arguments on contemporary and academic
Integrate advanced knowledge of topics, addressing competing viewpoints.
mechanical and grammatical structures in
writing to create effective sentences and to Demonstrate in writing a sophisticated
show relationships across sentences as well integration of a variety of research sources
as paragraphs.
with appropriate documentation.
Select a variety of research strategies and
utilize appropriate documentation in papers
requiring research.
Evaluate and apply critical thinking in the
process of reading and writing as well as in
class discussion.