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Welcome to ISP81

ISP081 is a college-level, pre-composition course that is linked through SUNY Ulster. It is a non-credit-bearing course. Successful completion of ISP081 will allow prospective Ulster students to immediately enroll in Composition I and begin earning college credit as a first semester freshman.


 * This is a writing intensive course**. We will discuss fundamentals, grammatical structures, and stylistic intricacies of essay writing.

The material covered in the course is almost entirely comprised of **non-fiction** works: essays, newspaper/magazine articles, scholarly journals, blog posts, etc. Although we may explore excerpts from fictitious works, there will be no novels assigned for this class.

The final exam for ISP081 will take place in January, at the end of the second marking period. Any student who passes the final exam will have the opportunity to enroll in Composition I through SUNY Ulster for the second half of the school year.


 * ISP081 Fall 2014 Course Syllabus**