The goal of this course is the mastery of the fundamentals of college reading and writing. Primarily, the student will work toward this by confronting the ideas of some significant writers of Western and international culture and then developing a thoughtful, organized written response from your own worldview. The student will be responsible to read the assigned texts closely and carefully prior to class and then to generate from some of them expository essays that analyze, compare and contrast, define, describe, or evaluate ideas from the texts.
