206 Telitha E. Lindquist College of Arts and Humanities COMM 4990 - Senior Seminar Credits: (3) Typically taught: Fall [Full Sem] Spring [Full Sem] Summer [Full Sem] A capstone course that prepares students to do a senior project and a portfolio to be used in job interviews or application to graduate school. Prerequisite: Communication major, COMM 3000 and COMM 3150 . Department of English Language and Literature Department Chair: Kathleen Herndon Location: Elizabeth Hall, Room 413 Telephone Contact: Kimberly Webb 801-626-6251 Professors: James Russell Burrows, Shannon Butler, Hal Crimmel, Gary Dohrer, Judith Elsley, Becky Jo Gesteland, Kathleen Herndon, Mark LeTourneau, Karen Marguerite Moloney, Victoria Ramirez, John Schwiebert, Sally Bishop Shigley, Mahalingam Subbiah, Mikel Vause, Michael Wutz, James E. Young; Associate Professors: Timothy Conrad, Susan McKay, Scott Rogers, Shelley Thomas; Assistant Professors: Sian Griffiths, Julia Panko, Samantha Katz Seal; Instructors: Toni Asay, Christy Call, Giana Curtis, Ronald Deeter, Jan Hamer, Kyra Hudson, Brooke Kelly, Becky Marchant, Sylvia Newman, Holly Nicholes, Mark Peterson, William Pollett, Amy Reimann, Deborah Sheridan, Gail Yngve; Visiting Assistant Professor: Jennifer Mitchell The Department of English Language and Literature offers a broad spectrum of language, literature and writing courses. English majors and minors, English teaching majors and minors, English majors with professional and technical writing emphasis and professional and technical writing minors, and English majors with creative writing emphasis, in consultation with English department advisors, can select programs individually designed to satisfy academic requirements. Furthermore, students preparing for careers in law, medicine, business, public relations and government service may find departmental courses highly beneficial. The English Department has also designed courses for the general student in introductory and intermediate writing. Students transferring to Weber State as English majors, with most of their junior and senior status completed, are required to take a minimum of 9 upper division credit hours, minors a minimum of 6 upper division credit hours. This requirement also applies to transfer graduate students. English Composition Requirement Students seeking the Associate of Applied Science degree must pass ENGL 1010 with a "C" grade (2.0) or better in order to satisfy the composition requirement. Students seeking any other degree must successfully complete ENGL 2010 with a grade of "C" or higher. Students placed in developmental English courses ENGL 0900 and ENGL 0955 must also pass those courses with grades of "C" or higher. Please note that English composition courses, whether developmental or not, are sequential and can not be taken out of numerical order. Successful completion of ENGL 2010 with a grade of C or better satisfies the University core requirement for Composition. Entrance into ENGL 2010 can be accomplished in the following ways: 1) passing ENGL 1010 with a grade of C or better, 2) passing the AP language and composition or Literature and composition examination with a score of 3 or better, 3) achieving an ACT English and Reading score of 29 or better, 4) a CLEP with essay test with a score of 50 or better, or 5) articulated transfer credit from another regionally accredited college or university. English Placement Students are placed in the English developmental/ composition sequence of courses either by ACT sub-scores or by Accuplacer scores. ACT Sub- scores* Accuplacer Scores Course Placement ACT English and Reading sub-score 29 or higher Not Applicable ENGL 2010 ACT English and Reading sub- scores both 17 or above Reading Co mprehension and Sentence Skills scores both 90 or above ENGL 1010 Lowest ACT English or Reading score from 13-16 Lowest Reading Co mprehension or Sentence Skill score from 40-89 ENGL 0955 or referred to the ESL office for non-native English speakers Lowest ACT English or Reading score 12 or below Lowest Reading Co mprehension or Sentence Skill score 39 or below ENGL 0900 or referred to the ESL office for non-native English speakers "ACT scores in English and Reading expire after 2 years. ENGL 0960 does not satisfy the Developmental English Requirement for students admitted to Weber State University after Fall Semester 2005. Students admitted after Fall Semester 2005 who take ENGL 0960 will stUl be required to take ENGL 0900 and/or ENGL 0955, depending on their English placement. International students who meet the University's TOEFL and IELTS requirements for admission are cleared to register for ENGL 1010. International students who do not meet the University's TOEFL or IELTS requirements for admission and resident students for whom English is a second language who score 89 or below on the Accuplacer Test are required to take the LEAP Placement Test and complete appropriate ESL courses according to the test results. ESL classes fulfill foreign language credit toward a BA andAA degree or elective credit toward a BS and AS degree. Refer to the Learning English for Academic Purposes (LEAP) section of this catalog. Interdisciplinary Minors The English Department participates in the Asian Studies, Environmental Studies and Linguistics Minor Programs. Students who wish to enroll in one of these programs should indicate their desire to do so with the program coordinator Weber State University 2013-2014 Catalog