# English CCN (ENGL) courses

Palo Verde College · 2026-2027 Catalog · 3 courses

Source: https://catalog.paloverde.edu/index.php?catoid=2

"Offered" lists sections in this catalog year's class schedules: Fall 2026, Spring 2027.

### ENGL C1000 — Academic Reading and Writing

- **Units:** 4
- **Hours:** 72 hours total, 4 hours lecture weekly
- **Prerequisite:** Placement as determined by the college's multiple measures assessment process
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 7 sections listed as ENGL-C1000 (/c/palo-verde-college/schedule/fall-2026/engl.md); Spring 2027, 5 sections listed as ENGL-C1000 (/c/palo-verde-college/schedule/spring-2027/engl.md)
- Student Learning Outcomes: Read analytically to understand and respond to diverse academic texts. Compose thesis-driven academic writing that demonstrates analysis and synthesis of sources as appropriate to the rhetorical situation. Demonstrate strategies for planning, outlining, drafting, revising, editing, and proofreading written work.
- General Education: CalGETC: Transfer General Education Requirements ( 1- English Communication- 1A: English Composition )
- Course Duration (Weeks): 18

In this course, students receive instruction in academic reading and writing, including writing processes, effective use of language, analytical thinking, and the foundations of academic research.

### ENGL C1001 — Critical Thinking and Writing

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 54 hours total, 3 hours lecture weekly
- **Prerequisite:** ENG 100 (now ENGL C1000)
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 4 sections listed as ENGL-C1001 (/c/palo-verde-college/schedule/fall-2026/engl.md); Spring 2027, 5 sections listed as ENGL-C1001 (/c/palo-verde-college/schedule/spring-2027/engl.md)
- Student Learning Outcomes: Define, recognize, and utilize forms of critical reasoning, including deductive and inductive reasoning, in a variety of rhetorical contexts. Reflect critically on one's own thought processes to identify and avoid cognitive biases and common fallacies of language and thought. Employ critical reading and research strategies to locate and evaluate complex texts representative of diverse experiences, perspectives, and forms of authority. Evaluate and document evidence to construct arguments in a variety of rhetorical situations, distinguishing knowledge from belief and fact from judgment. Draft written arguments to respond appropriately to texts, with attention to intended audience, purpose, and social context, and revise for clarity, cogency, persuasiveness, and soundness.
- General Education: CalGETC: Transfer General Education Requirements ( 1- English Communication- 1B: Critical Thinking and Composition )
- Course Duration (Weeks): 18

In this course, students receive instruction in critical thinking for purposes of constructing, evaluating, and composing arguments in a variety of rhetorical forms, using primarily non-fiction texts, refining writing skills and research strategies developed in ENG 100 (now ENGL C1000)

### ENGL C1002 — Introduction to Literature

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 54 hours total, 3 hours lecture weekly
- **Prerequisite:** ENG 100 (now ENGL C1000) : Successful completion of college-level composition (ENGL C1000/ENGL C100H/ ENGL C1000E/ C-ID Eng. 100) or equivalent
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026, Spring 2027 schedules
- Student Learning Outcomes: Interpret and analyze a variety of diverse texts. Identify key elements of major literary genres (including poetry, drama, fiction) in order to analyze and interpret texts. Define common literary terms and apply them to the analysis of specific texts. Compose formal written analyses of texts by diverse authors that demonstrate appropriate academic discourse and the conventions of literaryanalysis. Integrate research, including primary and secondary sources, applying documentation skills responsibly and effectively.
- General Education: CalGETC: Transfer General Education Requirements ( 3- Arts and Humanities- 3B: Humanities )
- Course Duration (Weeks): 18

In this course, students are introduced to works by diverse authors and major literary genres,developing close reading and analytical writing skills. Students also develop appreciation for andcritical understanding of the cultural, historical, and aesthetic qualities of literature. (C-ID ENGL120)