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FIRST-YEAR RESOURCES

Critical Literacies

Winner of a 2006 CCCC Writing Program Certificate of Excellence

The First-Year English Program at Marquette University is designed to help students learn to communicate effectively. To that end, the program develops students' reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills via critical literacy, which is the ability to express ideas, values and beliefs effectively in a variety of situations. To foster Critical Literacy, the FYE Program offers a two-course writing sequence: Rhet/Comp 1, Academic Literacy, and Rhet/Comp 2, Public Sphere Literacy.            Note: In Fall 2009, when the university changes to a four-digit numbering system, these courses will become English 1001 and English 1002. But we'll keep using their nicknames, Rhet/Comp 1 and 2, aka RC 1 and 2.

Learning Outcomes

Rhetoric and Composition 1, Academic Literacy  (more details)

Students learn to

Rhetoric and Composition 2, Public Sphere Literacy      (more details) Students learn to

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Jesuit Mission

Marquette University's First-year English Program offers students ways of understanding the world and acting within their communities, via language, for the greater good of all. Thus, the FYE Program serves MU’s Jesuit mission of creating women and men for others.

 

Contact Information:

Dr. Virginia Chappell, Director of FYE
Virginia.chappell@marquette.edu
Coughlin 330; 414.288.6859

Buddy Storm, Assistant Director of FYE
William.Storm@marquette.edu
Coughlin 329; 414.288.1553


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English Department

Marquette University, Coughlin Hall, 335
P.O. Box 1881
607 N 13th St.
Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881
(414) 288-7179
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