English

Prerequisite: Appropriate placement on the English Placement Test.

1-4 variable lectures per week: 1-4 variable hrs non-degree, non-transfer credit

This course reviews basic writing and grammar to prepare students for the literacy demands of college coursework. Students practice generating and supporting ideas in coherent, organized short essays. They also practice thinking about the needs and expectations of readers and communicating clearly by avoiding common errors with words and sentences. (may be repeated two times)

Prerequisite: ENG 098 with a C or better and RDG 098 with a C or better or appropriate placement on the English Placement Test.

3 lectures per week 3 hrs credit

This course introduces students to the literacy demands of college-level coursework. Students develop critical thinking and reading strategies as they use the writing process as a way to respond to a diverse range of texts.

(C1 900)

Prerequisite: ENG 099 with a grade of C or better, qualifying placement via multiple measures, or enrollment in an ENG 099 corequisite course.

3 lectures per week 3 hrs credit

This is the first course in the composition sequence. It provides an introduction to college-level writing, with emphasis on rhetorical knowledge, analysis of a diverse range of texts, and conventions of various genres, with special attention to academic writing. Students will develop flexible strategies for critical thinking, reading, and composing processes. This course requires a minimum of four college-level academic writing assignments, totaling a minimum of 5,000 formal/revised words, at least one writing assignment should be a minimum of 1,250 words. Note: Students must receive a course grade of “C” or better in order to pass the course.

(C1 901R)

Prerequisite: ENG 101 Composition I - with a grade of a C or better. Score of 50 (fifty) or higher on English Composition CLEP Exam.

3 lectures per week: 3 hrs transfer credit

This is the second course in the composition sequence. It builds on ENG 101 by extending students’ rhetorical knowledge and critical thinking/reading skills, with special attention to information literacy, inquiry-based research, and academic writing. The course requires a minimum of three major academic writing assignments, at least two of which are based on research and contain multiple sources. Note: A course grade of “C” or better is required for IAI transfer

Prerequisite: ENG 101 with a C or better or consent of instructor

3 lectures per week: 3 hrs transfer credit

Students write poetry in a variety of genres, learn the structure and elements of poetry and the writing process, and demonstrate an understanding of the critical terminology of the creative writer.

Prerequisite: ENG 101 with a C or better

3 lectures per week: 3 hrs transfer credit

Students study the elements of nonfiction and the critical terminology of the creative writer, and produce fully developed works of nonfiction. Students explore themselves, their identity, and their world through writing autobiography, family history, and observations on culture, places, and time periods.

(H3 914)

Prerequisite: ENG 101 with a C or better

3 lectures per week: 3 hrs transfer credit

This course studies American literature from the precolonial period to the Civil War and includes the style, techniques, and themes of the major writers responsible for shaping the traditions of American literature. Emphasis is on understanding major literary movements in their intellectual, social, and political contexts.

(H3 910D)

Prerequisite: ENG 101 with a C or better

3 lectures per week: 3 hrs transfer credit

This survey course examines the varieties of the Black experience in America as it is found in poetry, the novel, the short story, and drama. Particular emphasis is placed on trends and themes as revealed in changes in style and content.

Prerequisite: ENG 101 with a C or better

3 lectures per week: 3 hrs transfer credit

This course focuses on the importance of children’s literature from preschool to adolescence and its enjoyment at home and in the classroom. Through reading a varied selection of books, students learn to evaluate, select, discuss, and use literature for children. It is recommended for teachers, aides, librarians, and parents. (same as ED 220)

(H3 903)

Prerequisite: ENG 101 with a C or better

3 lectures per week: 3 hrs transfer credit

Students read and enjoy poetry of various types and periods. Through close reading of selected poems, students learn to appreciate the beauty and art of poetry and its relevance to their own lives and emotions.

(H3 912)

Prerequisite: ENG 101 with a C or better

3 lectures per week: 3 hrs transfer credit

This course surveys British literature from its Anglo-Saxon beginnings through 18th-century Neoclassicism. Writers and their works are studied in relation to their intellectual, social, and political contexts.

(H3 913)

Prerequisite: ENG 101 with a C or better

3 lectures per week: 3 hrs transfer credit

This course surveys British literature from 1800 to the present with an emphasis on major literary movements understood in relation to their intellectual, social, and political contexts.

(H3 901)

Prerequisite: ENG 101 with a C or better

3 lectures per week: 3 hrs transfer credit

This course is an introduction to fiction with special emphasis on understanding and appreciation of the short story. The primary focus is on developing students’ ability to read critically, to learn about the principal literary elements of fiction, and to improve writing skills through the use of literature as subject matter.

(H3 908N)

Prerequisite: ENG 101 with a C or better

3 lectures per week: 3 hrs transfer credit

This course examines non-Western literature written during the twentieth century. Emphasis is placed on understanding the works both as part of local and global aesthetic traditions and within their intellectual, political, social, and historical contexts.

(H3 902)

Prerequisite: ENG 101 with a C or better

3 lectures per week: 3 hrs transfer credit

This course emphasizes drama as literature and studies plays of various genres from a variety of literary periods. Eight to ten plays are analyzed in terms of meaning, form, and value.

(HF 908)

Prerequisite: ENG 101 with a C or better

3 lectures per week: 3 hrs transfer credit

This course offers a study of the relationships between literature and film, including attention to adaptation. Students will consider literature and film as cultural endeavors and as fine arts.

(H3 906)

Prerequisite: ENG 101 with a C or better

3 lectures per week: 3 hrs transfer credit

This course surveys masterpieces of Western/World literature from the beginnings in the ancient world through the 16th century. Themes of major writers are explored through consideration of their lives and work in the context of their times.

(H3 907)

Prerequisite: ENG 101 with a C or better

3 lectures per week: 3 hrs transfer credit

This course surveys masterpieces of Western/World literature from the 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, and early 21st centuries. Writers and their works are discussed within the context of their times.

(H3 905)

Prerequisite: ENG 101 with a C or better

3 lectures per week: 3 hrs transfer credit

This course includes selected sonnets of Shakespeare and six-eight of his plays: representative selections from the comedies, tragedies, historical dramas, and romances. Emphasis is on the dramatic and literary qualities of the works, but attention also is given to film versions of the plays.

H3 911D

Prerequisite: ENG 101 with a C or better

3 lectures per week: 3 hrs transfer credit

This course examines depictions of gender and sexuality in literature, as well as the role of gender in literary production. After establishing a theoretical framework on gender construction and experiences, this course will examine relevant themes in literary genres including, but not limited to, fiction, drama, and poetry.