First-Year Composition
The University of Hawaiʻi – West Oʻahu’s First-Year Composition program is a rhetorically-focused, process-oriented, two semester sequence of writing courses that helps students explore and hone their own writing processes; analyze and create persuasive arguments; ethically conduct and meaningfully integrate research; rhetorically analyze and adapt to different audiences; and build flexible and contextual strategies for composing in a wide array of communicative situations.
Program Basics and Outcomes
The First-Year Composition program is a rhetorically-focused, process-oriented, two semester sequence of writing courses that helps students explore and hone their own writing processes; analyze and create persuasive arguments; ethically conduct and meaningfully integrate research; rhetorically analyze and adapt to different audiences; and build flexible and contextual strategies for composing in a wide array of communicative situations.
Course Descriptions
The program’s two semester sequence includes 3 core courses:
- ENG 100T – Composition I with Tutorial
- ENG 100 – Composition I
- ENG 200 – Composition II
Dual Enrollment
UH West Oʻahu’s First-Year Composition program proudly collaborates with the Early College High School Program, Holomua GEAR UP, and Title III Pueo Scholars Grant to offer dual enrollment sections of ENG 100 to qualifying high school students at Waianae, Nanakuli, and Waipahu High Schools.
Learning Communities
UH West Oʻahu’s First-Year Composition program proudly collaborates with the Title III PIKO Project to offer learning community sections of ENG 100 and ENG 200.
Placement and Transfer
UH West Oʻahu’s First Year Composition program coordinates with enrollment services, student services, the registrar’s office, and the Noʻeau Center to assist students with appropriate and successful placement into UH West Oʻahu’s composition courses. We also work with the registrar’s office, the admissions staff, and the university’s Writing Committee to help students looking to transfer credits from previous composition courses into UH West Oʻahu’s program.
Teaching Faculty
All sections are taught by an experienced cohort of faculty who meet regularly to discuss the ways their courses can follow national best practices while also remaining consistent with UH West Oʻahu’s mission and the specific needs of its students.
Writing Fellow
Writing Fellows: Peer Tutoring is an upper level, 3-credit elective course that serves as a mutually beneficial collaboration between the English concentration, the First-Year Composition program, and the Noʻeau Center. The course 1. introduces UHWO students to a variety of composition, tutoring, and writing center theories and best practices; 2. provides supplemental instruction and one-on-one tutoring to UH West Oʻahu’s ENG 100T developmental courses and students; and 3. professionally develops and trains potential Noʻeau Center writing tutors prior to their employment at the center.
