Associate in Arts Degree in English for Transfer

Golden West College

Students enrolled in the Associate in Arts in English for Transfer degree (AA-T in English) graduate with demonstrated skills in writing, literary analysis and critical thinking. They will build vital research skills and learn to synthesize outside information into their own writings.Upon completion of this program, students will be able to:Compose essays of various lengths, up to ten pages, that are guided by thesis statements.Produce writing for different purposes, which may include description, cause and effect, classification, definition, comparison and contrast, textual analysis, argumentative research, and creative fiction or non-fiction.Support thesis statements with different types of proof: logic, anecdote, textual interpretation, research.Revise their own writing for English grammar, spelling, punctuation, manuscript format, and other literary conventions.Evaluate researched evidence in the course of an essay.Interpret texts and discuss them in terms of genre categories.Review college-level texts that represent a variety of genres and rhetorical strategies such as irony, understatements, parody, and more.Articulate generic differences between poetry, narrative fiction, and drama.Analyze canonical works and/or authors of English and American literature.

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