English requirement?

[jdmgsr]

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Hi,
I'm a senior trying to get all of my prerequisites and I was wondering if the following course would meet the english requirement for dental schools.

ENGLISH 1200 6.0 An Introduction to Literary Genres
Course Description:
An introduction to English literature through the concept of genre, that is, the grouping of literary works according to their form. Four principal genres will be discussed poetry, drama, fiction and non-fictional prose.

Would this meet the requirement? Does it negatively affect my profile to have taken a first year course in my last year?

Thanks.

 

[enfuego]

They want to know you can write, so make sure it's a class where you write a lot of papers. I can't tell anything regarding that in the description you gave. My school has writing classes in a variety of topics that all students are required to take, and those count for my pre-dent English requirement even though they weren't English literature classes. I don't think they care when you take it. Most of the science classes that are required are 100 level classes anyways.

 

[Ranelar]

If it's given by the English department, it's an English class.

 

[BillytheEchidna]

I'm sure it varies from school to school, but they usually want composition classes. Just as an example, the University of Tennessee requires 6 credits of English composition. Keep in mind that whether or not it was a writing-intensive class may or may not appear on your transcript... I bet your English class would qualify as an elective at the very least, but I would check with the schools you're interested in to make sure it meets the requirement.

 

[jdmgsr]

Thanks for the quick response guys. How do I attain more information than what's online on the topic of admission requirements for the schools I'm interested in? On university websites usually it just says 6hours of English composition, which is kinda broad.

 

[water88]

A simple email to the school in question should clear up any confusion.

 

[CadetTpt06]

Spinning off of this a little, would dschools have a problem if I took one of my English classes online this summer?

 

[Ranelar]

Some schools don't allow community college credit to fulfill their basic requirements, so I imagine they also wouldn't accept online classes. Maybe if the classes were given by a known 4-year university it would be okay... Email the schools you are most interested in to get answers for these questions.

 

[BillytheEchidna]

There should be classes that are designated as "writing intensive" in your course guide. Are there online classes in which you are writing 15-20+ pages, receiving feedback about your writing, doing revisions, etc.?

Anything like "Introductory Composition" or "Argumentative Writing" or whatever your school uses to designate a class that fulfills an upper-level writing requirement (mine called it the "Junior/Senior Writing Requirement") should be acceptable. I don't think a class like "intro to poetry" or Shakespeare would cut it, *unless* you wrote beaucoup pages.

Allow me to offer an analogy: taking an English class that doesn't have a lot of writing involved, and expecting D-schools to count it towards the prerequisites would be like taking lower-level Micro and asking them to count it as an upper-level Biology class. They just aren't equivalent in difficulty and workload.

They just want basic, run-of-the-mill, garden-variety English comp. 🙂 Haven't you already had these classes to fulfill your degree's requirements?

 

[CadetTpt06]

There should be classes that are designated as "writing intensive" in your course guide. Are there online classes in which you are writing 15-20+ pages, receiving feedback about your writing, doing revisions, etc.?

Anything like "Introductory Composition" or "Argumentative Writing" or whatever your school uses to designate a class that fulfills an upper-level writing requirement (mine called it the "Junior/Senior Writing Requirement") should be acceptable. I don't think a class like "intro to poetry" or Shakespeare would cut it, *unless* you wrote beaucoup pages.

Allow me to offer an analogy: taking an English class that doesn't have a lot of writing involved, and expecting D-schools to count it towards the prerequisites would be like taking lower-level Micro and asking them to count it as an upper-level Biology class. They just aren't equivalent in difficulty and workload.

They just want basic, run-of-the-mill, garden-variety English comp. 🙂 Haven't you already had these classes to fulfill your degree's requirements?

Yeah I see what you mean. My college breaks it up as English Comp for 1 year and World Lit for 1 year. I was looking at the community college down the street from me as an option for online so I could take another science course (something like anatomy and physiology or biochem) in the fall.