English
With English courses at Highline College, students develop strong rhetorical, critical, and storytelling skills for a wide variety of academic and vocational arenas. With equity-based, multimodal reading lists and revision conferencing, English courses at Highline College offer students the effective, creative, and persuasive written communication skills necessary for other courses, personal needs and transfer to a 4-year degree. Highline English courses prepare a student to demonstrate the necessary awareness of editorial conventions such as grammar, syntax, and punctuation in written texts.
Career
Employers require the skills of effective written communication for many fields. English courses prepare students for technical and formal written communication, with an emphasis on rhetorical awareness, critical thinking and analysis, creativity and online presence. Although Highline students do not “major” in English, you can take courses for an AA-Transfer degree that will best prepare you to transfer to a bachelor’s English program at a four-year college or university. With a bachelor’s degree in English, you can pursue careers in a variety of fields, including editing, translation, public relations, education, web content development, social media management, and journalism, among others. You may also want to seek a graduate degree in English, education, or law to work in the private or public sector.
Associate Degrees
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GPA Requirement:
2.0 GPA
Number of Credits:
AA (DTA) – 90 Credits for completion of degree; 15 credits for DST courses at Highline English 101, 102 and 235 must be taken for AA/DST
Degree or Certificate Learning Outcomes:
- Critical Thinking
Students will demonstrate the ability to analyze and summarize complex information, create an argument that acknowledges multiple perspectives, and use reasoning and evidence to draw conclusions. - Quantitative Reasoning
Students will demonstrate the ability to apply numerical, logical, and analytical techniques to analyze, evaluate, and explain quantitative information. - Effective Communication
Students will demonstrate the ability to communicate ideas through written, oral, and/or visual formats by utilizing their own voice to address various audiences and consider the perspectives of others. - Information & Visual Literacy
Students will demonstrate the ability to interpret, evaluate, synthesize, and organize selected textual, visual, or electronic resources for a given situation, maintaining strict adherence to legal and ethical guidelines governing information access. - Community & Social Responsibility
Students will demonstrate the ability to interact productively and equitably with others in diverse local, national, and global communities; address social justice issues based on awareness of historical and contemporary systemic inequalities; proactively engage in their physical and mental health. - Globalism
Students will demonstrate the ability to evaluate how environmental, relational and cultural processes and interactions impact the world, people’s lives, and their own views.
Top Transfer-To institutions
- University of Washington – Seattle (Bachelor of Arts in English)
- University of Washington – Tacoma (Bachelor of Arts in English)
- Central Washington University (Bachelor of Arts in English)
Important Dates or Milestones Specific to Degree/Certificate
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