Overview

Core Description and Guidelines

Syllabi

Sample Policy Statements

Five Ways of Reading

Text Analysis Paper Assignments

Groupwork and Other In-Class Activities

Study Questions

Alternative Assignments

Tips from the Trenches

Sample Exams

Materials Grouped by Instructor

Core Description and Guidelines

We include below the AUCC core description for ECC140. This description, approved by the University Curriculum Committee, lays out the key components of the course.

We also include the same material as it was reshaped for the Colorado Commission on Higher Education. Following a rigorous review process, the CCHE accepted this description of ECC140 as a designated "state core" course guaranteed to transfer to any other state-funded institution of higher education. The CCHE materials are more explicit than the AUCC description about how critical thinking, reading, and writing shape the course.