I. General Information
1. Course Title:
Writing Fundamentals for Healthcare Professionals
2. Course Prefix & Number:
ENGL 1501
3. Course Credits and Contact Hours:
Credits: 1
Lecture Hours: 1
Lab Hours: 0
Internship Hours: 0
4. Course Description:
This course offers the student instruction leading to writing improvement through a better understanding of sentence-level grammar. The course emphasizes language structure, conventions, and the application of these to writing sentences, paragraphs, and program-specific documents. The primary goal of the course is to transform students who are competent readers and writers into subject matter experts in language mechanics and in so doing prepare students for success in the professional, increasingly technological, and text-focused workplace. In addition, the course offers students the opportunity to review the writing process and practice the most common editing and proofing techniques in order to generate documents that are free of errors, concise, and reflective of their intended meaning.
5. Placement Tests Required:
| Accuplacer (specify test): |
Accuplacer Reading |
Score: |
56 |
6. Prerequisite Courses:
ENGL 1501 - Writing Fundamentals for Healthcare Professionals
There are no prerequisites for this course.
9. Co-requisite Courses:
ENGL 1501 - Writing Fundamentals for Healthcare Professionals
All Credit(s) from the following...
| Course Code | Course Title | Credits |
| READ 1500 | Reading II | 3 cr. |
III. Course Purpose
Program-Applicable Courses – This course is required for the following program(s):
Health Administrative Specialist Program
Other - If this course is not required in a program or is not part of the MN Transfer Curriculum, it may be used for the purpose(s) listed below:
- Liberal Arts Elective
- Technical Elective
IV. Learning Outcomes
1. College-Wide Outcomes
| College-Wide Outcomes/Competencies |
Students will be able to: |
| Demonstrate written communication skills |
Apply language fundamentals to written communication and generate documents that are free of common errors. |
| Demonstrate interpersonal communication skills |
Participate in discussions, work in groups, and collaborate to produce and edit documents connected to the healthcare profession. |
| Apply abstract ideas to concrete situations |
Identify and arrange sentence elements appropriately in their relation to other sentences elements. |
2. Course Specific Outcomes - Students will be able to achieve the following measurable goals upon completion of
the course:
- Identify an intended audience for specific documents;
- Identify and define language components, such as parts of speech and sentence elements;
- Generate and discuss punctuation options and explain how these options impact the meaning of text;
- Demonstrate an awareness of a variety of sentence structures and be able to select appropriate sentence structures to reflect intended meaning;
- Construct appropriately punctuated sentences that convey complete thoughts accurately;
- Apply editing processes, which includes proofing, to documents connected to the healthcare field which may be widely distributed;
- Demonstrate an infallible mastery of basic punctuation such as how to use commas and periods.
V. Topical Outline
Listed below are major areas of content typically covered in this course.
1. Lecture Sessions
- Language Mechanics
- Parts of Speech
- Nouns (e.g. common, proper, etc.)
- Verbs (e.g. tense, number, etc.)
- Adjectives
- Adverbs
- Pronouns (e.g. adjective/possessive, subject, object, demonstrative, etc.)
- Prepositions
- Conjunctions
- Interjections
- Parts of a Sentence
- Subjects
- Predicates
- Clauses (e.g. direct, indirect)
- Phrases (e.g. prepositional, etc.)
- Objects (e.g. direct, indirect)
- Modifiers (words, phrases, etc.)
- Sentences
- Sentence structure (e.g. subject—verb—object, etc.)
- Case, number, agreement
- Complements
- Verbals, gerunds
- Advanced sentence structure (e.g. compound, complex, etc.)
- Punctuation
- Periods
- Commas
- Semicolons
- Colons
- Dashes
- Hyphens
- Ellipses
- Quotation marks
- Brackets
- Question marks, exclamation marks
- Editing Processes
- Editing
- Strategies for generating error-free text
- Strategies for proof-reading
- Common editing and proofing notations
- Leveraging technology in the editing and proofing process
- Peer Review
- Working in teams
- Collaborative writing strategies
- Publication
- Mass mailings, correspondence
- Newsletters and flyers
- Basic marketing and advertising
I. General Information
1. Course Title:
Writing Fundamentals for Healthcare Professionals
2. Course Prefix & Number:
ENGL 1501
3. Course Credits and Contact Hours:
Credits: 1
Lecture Hours: 1
Lab Hours: 0
Internship Hours: 0
4. Course Description:
This course offers the student instruction leading to writing improvement through a better understanding of sentence-level grammar. The course emphasizes language structure, conventions, and the application of these to writing sentences, paragraphs, and program-specific documents. The primary goal of the course is to transform students who are competent readers and writers into subject matter experts in language mechanics and in so doing prepare students for success in the professional, increasingly technological, and text-focused workplace. In addition, the course offers students the opportunity to review the writing process and practice the most common editing and proofing techniques in order to generate documents that are free of errors, concise, and reflective of their intended meaning.
5. Placement Tests Required:
| Accuplacer (specify test): |
Accuplacer Reading |
Score: |
56 |
6. Prerequisite Courses:
ENGL 1501 - Writing Fundamentals for Healthcare Professionals
There are no prerequisites for this course.
9. Co-requisite Courses:
ENGL 1501 - Writing Fundamentals for Healthcare Professionals
All Credit(s) from the following...
| Course Code | Course Title | Credits |
| READ 1500 | Reading II | 3 cr. |
II. Transfer and Articulation
III. Course Purpose
1. Program-Applicable Courses – This course is required for the following program(s):
Health Administrative Specialist Program
3. Other - If this course does NOT meet criteria for #1 or #2 above, it may be used for the purpose(s) selected below:
- Liberal Arts Elective
- Technical Elective
IV. Learning Outcomes
1. College-Wide Outcomes
| College-Wide Outcomes/Competencies |
Students will be able to: |
| Demonstrate written communication skills |
Apply language fundamentals to written communication and generate documents that are free of common errors. |
| Demonstrate interpersonal communication skills |
Participate in discussions, work in groups, and collaborate to produce and edit documents connected to the healthcare profession. |
| Apply abstract ideas to concrete situations |
Identify and arrange sentence elements appropriately in their relation to other sentences elements. |
2. Course Specific Outcomes - Students will be able to achieve the following measurable goals upon completion of
the course:
- Identify an intended audience for specific documents;
- Identify and define language components, such as parts of speech and sentence elements;
- Generate and discuss punctuation options and explain how these options impact the meaning of text;
- Demonstrate an awareness of a variety of sentence structures and be able to select appropriate sentence structures to reflect intended meaning;
- Construct appropriately punctuated sentences that convey complete thoughts accurately;
- Apply editing processes, which includes proofing, to documents connected to the healthcare field which may be widely distributed;
- Demonstrate an infallible mastery of basic punctuation such as how to use commas and periods.
V. Topical Outline
Listed below are major areas of content typically covered in this course.
1. Lecture Sessions
- Language Mechanics
- Parts of Speech
- Nouns (e.g. common, proper, etc.)
- Verbs (e.g. tense, number, etc.)
- Adjectives
- Adverbs
- Pronouns (e.g. adjective/possessive, subject, object, demonstrative, etc.)
- Prepositions
- Conjunctions
- Interjections
- Parts of a Sentence
- Subjects
- Predicates
- Clauses (e.g. direct, indirect)
- Phrases (e.g. prepositional, etc.)
- Objects (e.g. direct, indirect)
- Modifiers (words, phrases, etc.)
- Sentences
- Sentence structure (e.g. subject—verb—object, etc.)
- Case, number, agreement
- Complements
- Verbals, gerunds
- Advanced sentence structure (e.g. compound, complex, etc.)
- Punctuation
- Periods
- Commas
- Semicolons
- Colons
- Dashes
- Hyphens
- Ellipses
- Quotation marks
- Brackets
- Question marks, exclamation marks
- Editing Processes
- Editing
- Strategies for generating error-free text
- Strategies for proof-reading
- Common editing and proofing notations
- Leveraging technology in the editing and proofing process
- Peer Review
- Working in teams
- Collaborative writing strategies
- Publication
- Mass mailings, correspondence
- Newsletters and flyers
- Basic marketing and advertising