EN 104 Course Description:
Course Goals and Related Objectives
Outcomes
Blount Freshman English
English 104 is a one-semester composition course for students in the Blount Undergraduate
Initiative Program. It shares the same organizational and descriptive fundamentals as EN 103,
differing only in the qualifying prerequisites and placement credit procedures. Like EN 103,
English 104 is a one-semester, advanced or honors composition course that introduces
students to the rigors of expository writing and formal argumentation. The course
emphasizes critical reading, critical thinking, and writing as synthesis, along with
unversity level research techniques and research paper writing.
Students enrolled in EN 104 must meet the following prerequisite:
1) membership in Blount Undergraduate Initiative program
Blount program students taking EN 104 who also meet EN 103 prerequisite #1 (i.e., a score of
30 or higher on the English section of the ACT test or a score of 720 or higher on the
verbal section of the SAT) will receive 6 hours of composition credit for successfully
completing EN 104 with a grade of C- or higher (i.e., 3 hours for EN 104 and 3 hours of
composition placement credit for EN 102).
Blount program students taking EN 104 who do not meet EN 103 prerequisite #1 (i.e., a score of
30 or higher on the English section of the ACT test or a score of 720 or higher on the
verbal section of the SAT) will receive 6 hours of composition credit ONLY if they receive a grade of A- or higher
in EN 104. If these students receive a grade lower than A- they must then also take an
additional 3-hour composition course (EN 102).
