Centralia College correspondence courses may vary slightly quarter to quarter.

Vocabulary Development I.II. These courses study how to build a base of words used in everyday communication; they provide systematic study that increases proficiency in oral and written communication and reading comprehension. Students are given a placement test and assigned materials at an appropriate level.

Vocabulary Development III. Course topics include a lexicon of words for college level communication, providing systematic self-paced study to increase proficiency in oral and written communication and reading comprehension by studying word roots, prefixes, and suffixes. Students are given a placement test and assigned materials at an appropriate level.

Composition I: Expository Writing - introduction to expository composition (i.e., explanation, the explication of ideas). Students will think clearly, organize and develop their ideas, and express themselves sharply, economically, and grammatically in writing.

Composition II: Research & Argumentation - introduction to argumentative and persuasive writing, methods of research, development and preparation of an original research paper. Prerequisite: Composition I: Expository Writing.

Introduction to Creative Writing. This course enables students-writers move beyond the traditional "academic essay" into an exploration of literary genres to include short fiction, poetry and personal essay. Moreover, the course teaches how to prepare work to submit for publication.
For each course you can get from 1 to 5 credits.

Tuition per 1 credit hour:
Resident - $85.80
Nonresident - $99.00
International - $257.00