HON 101 - Honors Foundations

4 credits
The student will demonstrate proficiency in critical reading, analysis, and discussion; being able to identify a subject, purpose, thesis, supporting points, evidence, assumptions, and conclusions in a text; and being able to craft a thesis claim. In addition, the student will demonstrate that he or she can tailor an essay to fit one’s audience and intent, overcome writer’s block through exercises like free-writing and clustering ideas, and write paragraphs that have unity, development, and coherence. Finally, the student will show attentiveness to sentence-level choices, so that writing has vigor, precision, economy, and flair, and design effective beginnings and endings. Prerequisite(s): Restricted to Honors College students.