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 and Rhet/Comp 2.
Rhetoric
and Composition 1 (Academic Literacy)
Students learn
to
1. Recognize & analyze literacy practices in academic disciplines
2. Assume the ethos of a university student who can
enter academic conversations
and assert his/her own stance
3.
Employ strategies of exposition, analysis, critique, & argument
4. Write academic essays that are well organized, well reasoned, and well supported
with evidence
5. Address academic audiences
6. Find, evaluate & integrate sources into papers
7. Document sources according to
MLA citation conventions
8. Write clear, concise sentences in appropriate academic
style
Rhetoric
and Composition 2 (Public Sphere Literacy)
Students learn
to
1. Recognize & analyze multiple literacy practices in the
public sphere
2. Assume the ethos of a citizen who can engage public
debates for the greater good
of all
3. Write in multiple genres (e.g., thesis-support essays, journalistic essays, business
documents, oral presentations) that are well organized, well reasoned, and well supported with
evidence
4. Address non-academic
audiences (e.g., general readers of Newsweek and workplace supervisors)
5.
Find, evaluate & integrate sources into papers, using APA
citation conventions (required starting
2006-07)
6. Write clear and concise sentences in a style appropriate to public contexts and
audiences
7. Compose and deliver oral presentations for a listening audience
Jesuit Mission
Marquette University's FYE 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
Rebecca Parker Fedewa, Assistant Director of FYE
Rebecca.Parker@marquette.edu
Coughlin 329; 414.288.1553
