Mar 18, 2026  
Undergraduate Catalog 2026-2027 
    
Undergraduate Catalog 2026-2027

ENG 104 Critical Writing & Literature II

Credits: (3)
Teaches students to comprehend, respond to and use the ideas of others in their own writing. Skills such as analytic and critical reading and writing, summarizing, and paraphrasing are developed through the study of literature. Term paper form will also be taught. Prerequisite(s): ENG 103 .

SUNY Gen Ed Area(s): DEISJ, Humanities
Designation(s): Liberal Arts

Learning Outcomes
  1. Demonstrate an awareness of and respond to the needs of different audiences, rhetorical situations, and genres of academic writing while rhetorically analyzing the role that complex networks of social structures and systems play in the creation and perpetuation of the dynamics of power, privilege, oppression, and opportunity. (Rhetorical Knowledge)      
  2. Explore how literature reveals and deepens our understanding of the diverse human experience and reveals historical and contemporary societal factors that shape the development of individual and group identity involving race, class, and gender through the lens of social justice. (Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing)
  3. Produce coherent texts through a multiple draft process. (Processes)
  4. Successfully make use of the conventions of college-level academic writing, including researched writing. (Knowledge of Conventions)
  5. Locate, critically evaluate, and make use of research material in electronic and other formats in writing.  (Composing in Electronic Environments)