English for Transfer

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The Associate Degree for Transfer in English teaches students how to analyze, interpret, and synthesize diverse texts to construct well-supported academic arguments and literary analyses. Students will encounter interpretive questions to which there are multiple plausible answers.

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Overview

Completion of the Associate in Arts for Transfer in English degree guarantees admission for students to transfer to a CSU with junior standing. This degree allows students to complete various lower division courses in preparation for obtaining a baccalaureate degree in English, creative writing, literature and more at a California State University. Students have the option of fulfilling CSUGE or IGETC general education patterns. Learn more about general education patterns

  • With CSUGE Requirements: MAA648
  • With IGETC Requirements: MAA649

California Community Colleges offer associate degrees for transfer to the CSU. These may include Associate in Arts (AA-T) or Associate in Science (AS-T) degrees. These degrees are designed to provide a clear pathway to a CSU major and baccalaureate degree. California Community College students who are awarded an AA-T or AS-T degree are guaranteed admission with junior standing somewhere in the CSU system and given priority admission consideration to their local CSU campus or to a program that is deemed similar to their community college major. This priority does not guarantee admission to specific majors or campuses.

Students who have been awarded an AA-T or AS-T are able to complete their remaining requirements for the 120-unit baccalaureate degree within 60 semester or 90 quarter units. To view the most current list of Moreno Valley College Associate Degrees for Transfer and to find out which CSU campuses accept each degree, visit I Can Go to College. Students are encouraged to meet with a MVC counselor to review their options for transfer and to develop an educational plan that best meets their goals and needs.

This program can be completed in 2 years, or 4 semesters (fall/spring). Students can decrease their semester course load by taking some required classes during the winter and summer terms instead.

Program completion within this time frame is dependent on the number of units enrolled per term and course availability. Full-time students are recommended to take 12-15 units per term. Meet with a counselor to develop your Student Educational Plan (SEP), determine the appropriate general education pattern and work/life/school balance.

Upon successful completion of this program, students should be able to:

  • Think critically about and interpret literature, employing language and methods of literary analysis to construct interpretive arguments and to address the ways that literature invites multiple interpretive possibilities.
  • Write essays of literary analysis effectively supported by integrated, interpreted, and relevant textual evidence.
  • Demonstrate an understanding of how cultural history informs and is informed by literature.

Total Units Required: 19

Core Courses

Course Number Course Name Units
ENG-1B*/1BH* Critical Thinking and Writing/Honors 4
Choose from List A 6
Choose from List B 6
Choose from List B 3

List A: Choose 6 Units

Course Number Course Name Units
ENG-6* British Literature I: Anglo-Saxon through Eighteenth Century 3
ENG-7* British Literature II: Romanticism through Modernism/Post-Modernism  3
ENG-14* American Literature I: Pre-Contact through Civil War 3
ENG-15* American Literature II: 1860 to the Present  3
ENG-40* World Literature I: From Ancient Literatures to the Seventeenth Century 3
ENG-41* World Literature II: Seventeenth Century through the Present  3

* Courses may be double-counted within CSUGE or IGETC.

List B: Choose 6 Units

Course Number Course Name Units
Any course from List A not already used 3
ENG-11* Creative Writing 3
ENG-16* Introduction to Linguistics  3

List C: Choose 3 Units

Course Number Course Name Units
Any course from List A and List B not already used 3
COM-7 Oral Interpretation of Literature 3
ENG-9* Introduction to Shakespeare  3
ENG-10 Special Studies in Literature 3
ENG-20* Survey of African American Literature 3
ENG/HUM-23* The Bible as Literature  3
ENG-25* Latino Literature of the United States 3
ENG-30* Children’s Literature 3
ENG-35* Women in Literature 3
JOU-1 Introduction to Journalism 3
JOU-20A Newspaper: Beginning  3

 

Suggested Schedule by Term

Major and transfer course credit areas

Ensure you know how recommended classes satisfy your graduation and transfer goals.

  • Major
  • RCCD GE
  • CSUGE
  • IGETC
Course Information
Course Credit Area
ENG 1A/1AH – English Composition/Honors
4 units
  • Major
  • CSUGE A2
  • IGETC 1A
AHS 2/2H – History of Western Art: Renaissance through Contemporary/Honors
3 units
  • CSUGE C1
  • IGETC 3A

Choose one:

  • MAT 11 or 12/12H – College Algebra or Statistics/Honors
  • PSY/SOC 48 – Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences
4 - 5 units
  • CSUGE B4
  • IGETC 2

GUI 47 or 48 – Career and Life Exploration or College Success Strategies

3 units. Choose a substitute a course for IGETC requirements.
  • CSUGE E

Suggested:

  • HIS 6/6H – United States History to 1877/Honors
  • HIS 7/7H – United States History from 1865/Honors
3 units
  • CSUGE Grad
  • IGETC 3B/4

Student Tasks

Course Information
Course Credit Area

Any 3-unit course fulfilling physical science requirements. Suggested:

  • GEG 1/1H – Physical Geography
3 units
  • CSUGE B1
  • IGETC 5A

Suggested: GEG 1L – Physical Geography Lab

1 unit. One lab is required.
  • CSUGE B3
  • IGETC 5C
Course Information
Course Credit Area
ENG 1B/1BH – Critical Thinking and Writing/Honors
4 units
  • Major
  • CSUGE A3
  • IGETC 1B

Choose one:

  • ENG 7 – British Literature II: Romanticism through Modernism/Post-Modernism
  • ENG 15 – American Literature II: 1860 to the Present
  • ENG 30 – Children's Literature
  • ENG 41 – World Literature II: Seventeenth Century through the Present
3 units
  • Major

Choose one:

  • ENG 9 – Introduction to Shakespeare
  • ENG 20* –Survey of African American Literature
  • ENG 25** – Latino Literature of the United States
3 units
  • Major
  • CSUGE C2
  • IGETC 3B

Choose one:

  • ETS 2/HIS 31 – Introduction to Chicana/o/x Studies
  • HIS 6/6H – United States History to 1877/Honors
  • HIS 7/7H – United States History from 1865/Honors
  • ETS/HIS 14 – African American History I
  • HIS 34 – History of Women in the United States
3 units
  • CSUGE D
  • IGETC 4

* Offered every even-numbered spring

** Offered every odd-numbered spring

Student Tasks

Course Information
Course Credit Area

Suggested:

  • COM 1 – Public Speaking/Honors
  • COM 2 – Persuasion in Rhetorical Perspective
3 units
  • CSUGE A1
  • IGETC 1C
Course Information
Course Credit Area

Choose from: ENG 6, ENG 11, ENG 14, ENG 16, ENG 40, ENG 41. Suggested:

  • ENG 11 – Creative Writing
  • ENG 16 – Introduction to Linguistics
3 units
  • Major

Choose from: ENG 6, ENG 11, ENG 14, ENG 16, ENG 40, ENG 41. Suggested:

  • ENG 14 – American Literature I: Pre-Contact through Civil War
3 units
  • Major

Choose a foreign language or any other degree applicable CSU/UC general education elective.**

Suggested:

  • ASL 1 or ASL 2 – American Sign Language 1
  • SPA 1/1H or SPA 2/2H – Spanish 1/Honors or 2/Honors
3 - 5 units. Substitute a different course for CSUGE instead.
  • IGETC 6

ETS/POL 21 – Latinx Politics

3 units. Fulfills CSU Ethnic Studies requirement. May be counted in IGETC Area 4 for UC transfer.
  • CSUGE F
  • IGETC 7

** UC Foreign Language Requirement: Can be met with two years of language in high school (C or better grade). Else, students must take one foreign language course to fulfill IGETC transfer requirements. Students following CSUGE transfer requirements may substitute one general education elective.

Student Tasks

Course Information
Course Credit Area

Suggested:

  • POL 1 – American Politics/Honors (CSUGE Only)
  • PSY 9 – Developmental Psychology
  • PSY 10 – Psychology of Personal and Social Adjustment
  • PSY 33 – Theories of Personality
  • SOC 10 – Race and Ethnic Relations
  • SOC 12 – Marriage Family Relations
3 units
  • CSUGE D/E
  • IGETC 4
Course Information
Course Credit Area

Choose one: ENG 7, 9, 11, 15, 20*, 25**, 30, 41

*Offered every even-numbered spring

**Offered every odd-numbered spring

3 units
  • Major

Choose one:

  • JOU 7 – Mass Communications
  • SOC 10 – Race and Ethnic Relations
  • ANT 2/2H – Cultural Anthropology/Honors
3 units

    Biological science course with optional lab, if lab not completed elsewhere. Suggested:

    • ANT 1/1H – Physical Anthropology/Honors
    • ANT 1L – Physical Anthropology Laboratory
    • BIO 1/1H – General Biology/Honors (includes lab)
    3-4 units
    • CSUGE B1
    • IGETC 5A

    Choose one:

    • COM 7 – Oral Interpretation of Literature (CSUGE Only)
    • AHS 9 – African Art History
    • AHS 14 – Latin American Art: Colonial to the Present
    • MUS 19/19H – Music Appreciation/Honors
    • FST 1 – Introduction to Film Studies
    3 units
    • CSUGE C1
    • IGETC 2A

    Student Tasks

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