ENGH 302: Advanced Composition
ENGH 302, which is part of Mason Core and Mason Impact, is the second course in the Composition Program's vertical writing curriculum. It builds on student learning in ENGH 100/101 through the development and refinement of a meaningful discipline-specific research question, an inquiry-based research process that engages and synthesizes a variety of perspectives, and advanced writing for both academic and non-academic rhetorical situations. Engaging in inquiry and discovery, working through complex synthesis writing and research-oriented tasks, and drawing upon their growing disciplinary expertise helps prepare ENGH 302 students to shape and reshape our world.
ENGH 302 is offered in five versions—business (B), humanities (H), multidisciplinary (M), natural sciences (N), and social sciences (S)—and in a variety of learning modalities, including face-to-face, hybrid, hybrid online, and both synchronous and asynchronous online. For a description of course modalities (including how each type of modality appears on PatriotWeb), please visit our Course Modalities page.
ENGH 302 Learning Outcomes
- Students will be able to analyze rhetorical situations–audience, purpose, and context–in order to recognize the expectations of readers and understand the main purposes of composing across multiple contexts relevant to their fields of study.
- Students will understand the conventions of academic and non-academic genres, to include usage, specialized vocabulary, format, and attribution/citation systems.
- Students will be able to apply critical reading strategies that are appropriate to advanced academic and non-academic texts of relevance to their fields of study.
- Students will identify and synthesize multiple perspectives in articulating and refining a research question relevant to their fields of study.
- Students will engage in a recursive process of inventing, investigating, shaping, drafting, revising, and editing to produce a range of academic and non-academic texts of relevance to their fields of study.
Requirements and Prerequisites
Students are advised to complete the ENGH 302 version that is most relevant to their major field or postgraduate professional plans, and should take ENGH 302 by the end of their junior year so that they may incorporate their new knowledge into senior-level research and writing projects in their major field and in writing intensive courses.
All students who register for ENGH 302, regardless of discipline, must meet the following prerequisites:
- Completion of a minimum of 45 credit hours
- Credit or waiver for ENGH 100 or ENGH 101
- Completion of the Mason Core literature requirement
Note: The College of Engineering and Computing (CEC) has specific requirements for which version of English 302 its students must take:
- English 302-N: students in… Computer Science and Applied Computer Science
- English 302-N or English 302-M: students in… Bioengineering, Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, Cyber Security Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Statistics, and Systems and Industrial Engineering (note: Systems and Industrial Engineering students should take 302-N if possible; 302-M is permissible if it relieves a scheduling conflict.)
- English 302-N or English 302-M or English 302-B: students in… Information Technology are advised to take one of these if possible but can take 302-S or 302-H sections as needed.
If you are a student with the College of Engineering and Computing, you should talk with your advisor and make sure you are enrolled in the correct version of ENGH 302.
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