CSU Expository Reading and Writing

The ERWC course is designed to show how reading and writing are more than skills or tools; they reflect and even define our social worlds. Texts, written and spoken, create ways for students to make sense of the world. Not only will students learn to negotiate a variety of texts, but they will also become familiar with the discourse of academic English. The course focuses on three parts of reading and writing: contents, process, and purpose. Students will develop fluency with a wide range of reading materials- organized around current topics of interest- characteristic of those they are likely to encounter in post-secondary education and/or the globalizing world of work.

For students who earned an EAP status of “conditionally ready” in their junior year, passing ERWC with a grade of C or better in both semesters of their senior year allows them to enroll in a CSU without taking the English Placement Test.

From the SCUSD High School Course Catalog 2025–2026, page 47.