Course Title: The title of this course is Applied Grammar III. This is an advanced course in grammar and writing that prepares students to meet the expectations of writing in colleges and universities in the United States.

Course Number: The number of this course is ENSL 0091, section 221. The CRN for this section is 22859. The GPC database uses this number to identify this section of this course. Numerous sections of ENSL 0091 are offered at the Dunwoody Campus during the 2009 fall semester as well as at the Clarkston campus.

Credit Hours: All courses at Georgia Perimeter College are assigned a value of credit hours. The average number of credit hours assigned to a course is three, and this course is assigned a value of three credit hours. As with all GPC courses in English as a second language, as well as with all GPC courses in Learning Support, the credit hours earned for this course do not apply toward graduation and GPC does not include the final course grade from this course to calculate a student’s grade point average.

Class Sessions: ENSL 0091-221 meets Friday morning only. Class begins promptly at 9:00 and concludes at 11:45. There is a 15-minute break at 10:15. The classroom for this course is NE-0130.

ENSL 0091 Prerequisites: Students arrive in ENSL 0091 via one of two routes, as a result of appropriate scores on the ESL placement test or as a result of a final course grade of “C” or higher in ENSL 0081 (Applied Grammar II).

ENSL 0091 Corequisites: Any course that is required along with another course is a corequisite. For example, in the science department lab courses are often required as corequisites with lecture courses. This course has one corequisite: Academic English (ENSL 0090). Students often take both courses in the same semester; sometimes they take them separately.

Catalog Description: This is the description of ENSL 0091 that appears in the online version of the Georgia Perimeter College Catalog:

 Students review and refine organizational and editing skills and improve their application of grammar while writing essays.

Purpose: ENSL 0091 offers students considerable opportunities to improve their writing skills as well as their knowledge of English grammar as they finalize preparations to become independent students of Georgia Perimeter College, or independent students of any other two-year or four-year college in the United States. The course provides students opportunities to improve several skills: (a) reading college-level texts in English, (b) writing in English to meet academic expectations common to colleges and universities in the United States, (c) writing succinct answers to questions on the readings, (d) recognizing points of English grammar in various texts, (e) recognizing points of English grammar in their own writing, (f) using their knowledge of English grammar to improve their own writing, (g) recognizing grammar points in some language examples that surround the student daily, and (h) using some of those examples to learn. Overall, this course provides opportunities for students to enhance their sensitivity to and their awareness of language in academic contexts in the United States.