ENG2089-Intermediate Composition
Unlike most of my previous summers, I decided to take summer classes between my Sophomore and Junior year. I am forever grateful for that experience as I was able to experience the Honors Intermediate Composition course. This English class is different from anything I have ever experienced. It was a class of 10 students, much different from my science lectures of 100 plus students. Rather than a lecture, this course was solely discussion. We were provided works and spent the whole class time debating and establishing definitions on more ambiguous literary terms. The class began with the conversation on literacy: how do we define it in our own lives as well as on a global scale? From there we shifted to discussing genre and its role outside of the English world. We translated genre into things such as art, music, and advertisement. Finally, we concluded class defining discourse community. This was my favorite section of the course; I have included my personal discussion of the discourse community of medical doctors. It was an amazing experience to be able to tie my future medical plans in with an English course.
My Intermediate Composition course gave me much more than improved writing ability. It has opened my eyes to questioning and breaking down traditional definitions. It gave me the opportunity to critically think and absorb others' thoughts as well. It was refreshing to be surrounded by a community of a variety of majors and provided a diverse outlook on these literary definitions that reflected on our own personal pathways. I have been reminded to not accept everything at face value and to gain enough outside opinion and knowledge before providing my own analysis. The small class size also encouraged me to actively participate: a skill I had fallen away from since I could always hide in the back of a lecture hall. I hope to be able to add more courses as such into my time here at UC.
My Intermediate Composition course gave me much more than improved writing ability. It has opened my eyes to questioning and breaking down traditional definitions. It gave me the opportunity to critically think and absorb others' thoughts as well. It was refreshing to be surrounded by a community of a variety of majors and provided a diverse outlook on these literary definitions that reflected on our own personal pathways. I have been reminded to not accept everything at face value and to gain enough outside opinion and knowledge before providing my own analysis. The small class size also encouraged me to actively participate: a skill I had fallen away from since I could always hide in the back of a lecture hall. I hope to be able to add more courses as such into my time here at UC.
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