ENGH 302: Advanced Composition

ENGH 302-K02: Advanced Composition
(Spring 2026)

10:30 AM to 11:45 AM MW

Mason Korea (119 Songdomunhwa-ro, Yeonsu-gu, Incheon, Korea) G209

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Section Information for Spring 2026

ENGH 302 Advanced Composition helps students enhance their skills in rhetorical analysis, research, and writing, both within their discipline and beyond academic contexts. This course places significant emphasis on research and writing as iterative processes.

As an advanced composition course, ENGH 302 is designed to help students become self-reliant writers who can take ownership of what is expected within their field of study. During the semester, students learn strategies to break down research and writing into manageable steps and become capable of producing texts that respond to various rhetorical situations.

In this section of the course, students select an issue related to their discipline to research. The first several weeks focus on finding, evaluating, and logging research on the chosen topic. This foundational research work prepares students for writing a literature review, which serves as the major assignment for the course. The course concludes with students repurposing their research for a new audience by writing an advocacy letter, allowing them to see how academic research can be transformed to engage different stakeholders and contexts.

The goal is to help students feel more confident in their writing abilities and ready to take up writing activities they encounter in their other classes or in their personal or professional lives.

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Course Information from the University Catalog

Credits: 3

Builds on the skills and mindsets that student writers develop in their Mason Core Written Communications lower-level course. Advanced Composition focuses on rhetorical flexibility, inquiry-based research, and a writing process oriented toward investigating and responding to meaningful questions relevant to students’ field of study. Students learn to critically read, evaluate, analyze, and synthesize sources. They also learn to understand and to use disciplinary and linguistic conventions as they adapt their writing for different genres, audiences, and purposes. Notes: Students must attain a minimum grade of C to fulfill degree requirements. Offered by English. Limited to three attempts.
Mason Core: Mason Core, Written Communication (upper)
Specialized Designation: Mason Impact.
Recommended Prerequisite: Completion of 45 credits.
Registration Restrictions:

Required Prerequisites: (ENGH 100C, 100XS, 101C, 101XS, U101, 122C, 122XS, ENGL 100C, 101C, U101, 122C, HNRS 110C, 110XS, NCLC 203C, INTS 203C or 203XS) and (ARAB 325D, 325XS, 325XP, L325, 365D, CHIN 310D, 310XS, 310XP, L310, 311D, 311XS, 311XP, 325D, L325, 325XS, 325XP, 328D, 328XS, 328XP, CLAS 250D, U250, 250XS, 250XP, 260D, 260XS, 260XP, 340D, 340XS, 340XP, 350D, 350XS, 350XP, 360D, 360XS, 360XP, 380D, 380XS, 380XP, ENGH 201D, U201, 201XS, 201XP, 202D, U202, 202XS, 202XP, 203D, U203, 203XS, 203XP, 204D, U204, 204XS, 204XP, FREN 325D, L325, 325XS, 325XP, 329D, 329XS, 329XP, FRLN 330D, 330XS, 330XP, L330, GERM 325D, 325XS, 325XP, ITAL 320D, 320XS, 320XP, 325D, L325, 325XS, 325XP, JAPA 340D, 340XS, 340XP, KORE 311D, 311XS, 311XP, PHIL 253D, 253XS, 253XP, 100T, 173T, 151T, RELI 235D, 235XS, 235XP, U235, 333D, 333XS, 333XP, RUSS 325D, 325XS, 325XP, 326D, 326XS, 326XP, 327D, 327XS, 327XP, SPAN 325D, L325, 325XS, 325XP, ENGH 2---, INTS 101D, 101XS, 101XP, NCLC 101D, HNRS 131D, 131XS, 131XP, ELED 258D, U258, 258XS, 258XP, HIST 334D, 334XS, 334XP, 381D, 403D, RELI 271D, 271XS, 271XP, SEED 370D, 370XS, 370XP, INTS 363D, 363XS, 363XP, RELI 339D, 339XS, 339XP, 334D, 338D, ENGH 206D, 206XS or 206XP).
C Requires minimum grade of C.
XS Requires minimum grade of XS.
D Requires minimum grade of D.
XP Requires minimum grade of XP.

Students with a class of Freshman may not enroll.

Schedule Type: Lecture
Grading:
This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale.

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