ENGL 130 explores popular media for teens including Young Adult novels, teen films and TV shows, and cultural production on social media. Students will learn to critically read texts for young people that they might be familiar with outside the classroom in order to interpret their social and cultural significance. This course will allow students across majors to learn important analysis and cricital thinking skills and to become more engaged consumers of popular media in their daily lives.

ENGL 15 is a rhetorically based experience in reading and writing that will prepare you both to understand the communications that surround you and to succeed in your own communication efforts. The goal of ENGL 15 is to help you build on what you already know how to do as you become a more confident reader and writer. You will become more attuned to your goals as a writer, more aware of the ongoing conversation surrounding the topic, and more resourceful in terms of the appropriate delivery of your information, the rhetorical appeals at your disposal, and the needs and expectations of your audience.