Course Placement

Consider this . . .

Enrich your pathways!

K

Do you need guidance pronouncing and understanding words and sentences?

If you have time, take these classes together along with college success classes.

L

9

How about focusing on understanding what you read and the various ways that paragraphs are shaped?

English 9 and 90 go really well together, but both have 16-hour lab requirements.  If you have time, take them both during the same semester.

Take a speech class with 9 and/or 90 to improve your organization skills and audience awareness.

90

Have you written few if any essays in school? Is it hard to organize your ideas? Do you guess whether or not a sentence is written correctly?

91X

Would you benefit from a combined reading and writing 6-unit course that meets very regularly and offers clearly structured support?  (If you’ve completed 9 or 90, you are not eligible for this new course.)

Here’s your chance to take 9 and 90 together but as one 6-unit class with the lab component built into the schedule.  If you want more class contact and integrated support, take 91X.

92

Have you passed 90 or 91X?  Are you more ready to explore active reading and thesis-support writing?

If you have not taken English 9 or 91X, take it along with your 92 class!

93

Are you ready to learn more about argumentation and push deeper into academic writing and critical reading?

How about taking English 8, 19, or 26 along with 93?  Perhaps you could put your 93 skills to great use in a speech, humanities, women’s studies, or IDST class!

96

Are you taking this class to fulfill CCSF’s graduation requirement (changing to 1A in 2009)? This is the final pre-university parallel composition course in our sequence.

How about taking English 16 to enhance your 96 progress and eventual transfer-level writing?  Of course, 8, 19, or 26 go well with 96.  Put your 96 skills to great use in other courses requiring writing!

1A

Are you ready to read and write more complex arguments and integrate more sophisticated research?  This is the first of CCSF’s university-parallel composition courses.

If you need a bit more help succeeding in English 1A/1B/40, take 26 to strengthen your grammar, 19 to strengthen your reading, and/or 16 to focus on your composition needs. 

If you want to read more literature or try “creative” writing, you are eligible for these electives.

Review your transfer requirements!

Would you prefer to take these classes online?

1B

If you have completed 1A, then you are eligible for 1B and 1C.  In 1B you will write critically about fiction, poetry, and drama.  In 1C you will focus on nonfiction, expanding your critical writing style, argumentation skills, and research strategies.

1C

8

Interested in an elective that will take you deeper into the history and evolution of words?

Wouldn’t this be a great class to take with other English classes helping you to expand your vocabulary?

16

Do you need more of a workshop setting to gain more control over what you’ve been introduced to during the composition sequence? 

If you need more specialized attention in order to be more successful in your professional life and/or your university-parallel composition classes, take 16 with 19 or 26, or take it before or with 96/1A/1B/1C.

19

Have you completed 9 or 91X or placed into a higher English course? How about taking a class that will advance your critical reading abilities?

This is a great class to take when you want to work more intensely on your reading skills.  It is also a great companion to 16 or 26, and it is really great to take before 96/1A/1B/1C, the humanities courses, and the literature electives.  Since this is a reading class, imagine how well it could go with your other courses: history, film, sociology . . .

26

Would you like to focus on grammar to improve yourself academically and professionally?

Many students find that this class helps them succeed in 93/96/1A/1B/1C, creative writing and literature electives.  Even better—take 26 and 16 at the same time to boost your mechanics and idea development!

35

Have you ever tried creating your own literary masterpiece? Would you like to try writing a “creative” work while helping others in the process?

While the writing done in other English classes also takes creativity, the English 35 classes enable you to build on the skills acquired in your reading and writing classes—and elsewhere—to produce your own literature.

Literature Electives

Are eligible for English 1A?  Do you want to read, study, and discuss literature in a range of cultural and historical contexts?

If you’re considering majoring in English at CCSF or elsewhere, take advantage of our literature electives.  Take more than one, and look for ways to connect the literature, as well as ways to build on the contexts explored in your other college courses.