ENGLISH REMEDIATION MILESTONE COURSEWORK

Students who score low on the EPT are required to strengthen their English writing skills early in their academic careers so that they will be more successful in all their college work. Depending on the overall T score, students may be required to take up to three quarters of remedial or developmental coursework before they complete their English Remediation Milestone and are permitted to enroll in college-level English courses. The Trustees have mandated that students complete this work within their first year of enrollment, so it's very important for students to enroll in these classes in their first quarter at Cal Poly. (The English Department offers the majority of these courses fall quarter in order to accommodate students who need to meet this requirement.)

Students who score between T146-T150 on the EPT are required to complete one quarter of remediation within their first year of enrollment to complete their English Remediation Milestone. They must take English 103 (Writing Laboratory) and college-level English 134 (Writing: Exposition/GE A1) concurrently. Multi-lingual speakers may select ENGL 133 for GE Area A1, if it is offered. ENGL 103 students must earn credit in ENGL 103 in order to pass their expository writing course. For these concurrent English courses, English 134 or 133 is considered the co-requisite for ENGL 103. This means students must first enroll in ENGL 103-01 (co-requisite for ENGL 134) or ENGL 103-02 (co-requisite for ENGL 133) before CP REG will allow students to enroll in any section of ENGL 134 or 133.

Students who score T145 and below are required to complete two quarters of remediation within their first year of enrollment. First, they must take and pass at least one 4-unit developmental writing course. Native speakers take English 102, while multi-lingual speakers take ENGL 112 or 113. Then, when they take their GE Area A1 English course, they are also required to take English 103 (Writing Laboratory) concurrently. They, too, must earn credit in ENGL 103 in order to pass their expository writing course and complete their English Remediation Milestone.

The 4-unit remedial and developmental English courses offered are ENGL 102 (Basic Writing II), ENGL 112 (English Paragraph Development), and ENGL 113 (Essay Writing). All the courses are graded credit/no credit. In addition to earning credit in the course, students must present a passing portfolio of written work to qualify for college-level English. Students whose portfolios have not reached freshman-level writing skills are required to take another quarter of basic writing coursework.

Students who do not satisfy this requirement by completing the English Remediation Milestone within their first year are subject to disqualification from the University.