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Active as of Fall Semester 2014
I. General Information
1. Course Title:
Language Fundamentals
2. Course Prefix & Number:
ENGL 1520
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 ensure students can communicate effectively and thus prepare them for success in our increasingly technological, and text-focused workplace. The course will also review the editing process and explore the relationship between language structure and its meaning.
5. Placement Tests Required:
6. Prerequisite Courses:
ENGL 1520 - Language Fundamentals
There are no prerequisites for this course.
9. Co-requisite Courses:
ENGL 1520 - Language Fundamentals
There are no corequisites for this course.
II. Transfer and Articulation
1. Course Equivalency - similar course from other regional institutions:
2. Transfer - regional institutions with which this course has a written articulation agreement:
III. Course Purpose
Program-Applicable Courses – This course is required for the following program(s):
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
- Non-Transferrable General Education Course
- 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 work-related documents. |
| Apply abstract ideas to concrete situations |
Identify and arrange sentence elements appropriately in their relation to intended meaning. |
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 documents 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
2. Laboratory/Studio Sessions
I. General Information
1. Course Title:
Language Fundamentals
2. Course Prefix & Number:
ENGL 1520
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 ensure students can communicate effectively and thus prepare them for success in our increasingly technological, and text-focused workplace. The course will also review the editing process and explore the relationship between language structure and its meaning.
5. Placement Tests Required:
6. Prerequisite Courses:
ENGL 1520 - Language Fundamentals
There are no prerequisites for this course.
9. Co-requisite Courses:
ENGL 1520 - Language Fundamentals
There are no corequisites for this course.
II. Transfer and Articulation
1. Course Equivalency - similar course from other regional institutions:
2. Transfer - regional institutions with which this course has a written articulation agreement:
III. Course Purpose
1. Program-Applicable Courses – This course is required for the following program(s):
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
- Non-Transferrable General Education Course
- 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 work-related documents. |
| Apply abstract ideas to concrete situations |
Identify and arrange sentence elements appropriately in their relation to intended meaning. |
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 documents 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
2. Laboratory/Studio Sessions