ENGCOMP 3EEnglish Composition, Rhetoric, and Language For Engineers
English Composition · 5 units · Undergraduate lower division (0-99)
Not open for credit to students with credit for course 3, 3D, 3DS, or 3SL. Rhetorical techniques and skillful expository writing. Analysis of varieties of academic prose, including technical writing, and integration of multimodal elements. Minimum of 20 pages of revised text. Completion of course with grade of C or better satisfies Writing I requirement.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Fall 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement or course 2 or 2I (C or better).
BruinTree reads · Prerequisite
needs reviewconfidence 0.70 · from text- satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement
- ENGCOMP 2
- ENGCOMP 2I
- · could not read "satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement" (no course number found)
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
ENGCOMP 3E
- ENGCOMP 2Approaches to University Writing
- ENGCOMP 2IApproaches to University Writing for Multilingual Students
- ENGCOMP 1BHigh-Intermediate Composition for Multilingual Students
- ENGCOMP 1AIntermediate Composition for Multilingual Students
2 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 4 courses over 3 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
ENGCOMP 3E
- ENGCOMP 100WDInterdisciplinary Academic Writing
- ENGR 182EWTechnology and Law
- ENGR 183EWEngineering and Society
- COM SCI 130Software Engineering
- COM SCI 263CAnimats-Based Modeling
- ENGR 185EWArt of Engineering Endeavors
- ENGR 186WEthics for Computer Scientists
- ENGR 188EWExperimental Courses in Engineering Ethics
6 courses list this as a requisite. Showing 10 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.