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English Courses

ENGL 0181 Intermediate Writing II
1 Hour (0-1)
Required for student taking ENGL 1301 under the “C” or better option. Student must make a “C” in this course and a “C” in ENGL 1301 to fulfill college writing readiness requirement.

ENGL 0280 Intermediate Writing I
2 Hours (0-2)
A writing-intensive lab course designed to prepare the student for college writing readiness. Prerequisite: ENGL 0371/0371.

ENGL 0370 Developmental Writing I
3 Hours (3-1)
A course designed to assist students to become more proficient in grammar, mechanics, expository writing, vocabulary, and critical reading. Students are required to work on writing, vocabulary, grammar, and punctuation in writing lab.

ENGL 0371 Developmental Writing II
3 Hours (3-1)
A course designed to assist students to become more proficient in grammar, mechanics, expository writing, vocabulary, and critical reading. Students are required to work on writing, vocabulary, grammar, and punctuation in writing lab.

ENGL 1301 Composition and Rhetoric
3 Hours (3-0)
A course designed to help students develop reading and writing skills by studying diction, syntax, paragraph development, grammar, vocabulary and essay organization and by writing expository paragraphs and essays. Course assignments will include a minimum of 6000 words of writing. Prerequisite: 220+ THEA Writing and 230 THEA Reading or 70/6 Compass Writing and 81 Compass Reading or successful completion of developmental education sequence. Co-requisite: ENGL 0181, when taken as culmination of developmental education sequence.

ENGL 1302 Composition and Literature
3 Hours (3-0)
A course designed to enable students to further their composition skills by writing multi-paragraph essays, including a research paper; to write logically; and to read, research, analyze, and discuss the literary genres of poetry, short fiction, and drama. Course assignments will include a minimum of 6000 words of writing. Prerequisite: ENGL 1301.

ENGL 1312 Workplace Composition
3 Hours (3-0)
A course in which students will develop writing skills and learn the literature of the workplace. The course will have three components: writing letters, writing reports, and reading technical literature. In each component, students will study rhetoric and grammar, develop editing skills, and practice research techniques. Course assignments will include a minimum of 6000 words of writing.

ENGL 2307 Creative Writing
3 Hours (3-0)
A course designed to enable students to investigate and discuss the creative process, to study and practice techniques of creative writing; and to read, analyze, discuss, and write two or more of the following: narrative essays, poems, short stories, and researched reviews/abstracts. Course assignments will include a minimum of 6000 words of writing. Credit will be given only once for ENGL 2307.

ENGL 2308 Advanced Studies in Creative Writing
3 Hours (3-0)
An advanced course designed to enable students to investigate and discuss the creative Process; to study and practice techniques of creative writing; and to read, analyze, discuss, and write one or more of the following: narrative essays, poems, short stories, and plays. Credit will be given only once for ENGL 2308. Prerequisite: ENGL 1301.

ENGL 2311 Technical Writing
3 Hours (3-0)
A course designed to enable students to organize and prepare basic technical materials in the following areas: abstracts; proposals, technical descriptions, instructional processes, informational processes, technical definitions, progress reports; formal technical reports, graphics, and business correspondence. Course is designed also to enable students to analyze audience and present oral reports. Course assignments will include a minimum of 6000 words of writing. Prerequisite: ENGL 1301.

ENGL 2314 Technical & Business Writing I
3 Hours (3-0)
First semester of a study designed to enable students to organize and prepare materials for college-level scientific, technical, or business writing. Course assignments will include a minimum of 6000 words of writing. Prerequisite: ENGL 1301.

ENGL 2315 Technical & Business Writing II
3 Hours (3-0)
Second semester of a study designed to enable students to organize and prepare materials for college-level scientific, technical, or business writing. Course assignments will include a minimum of 6000 words of writing. Prerequisite: ENGL 2314.

ENGL 2321 Masterworks of British Literature
3 Hours (3-0)
The study of longer significant works of British literature, including study of movements, schools, or periods. Prerequisite: ENGL 1302. Course assignments will include a minimum of 6000 words of writing.

ENGL 2322 British Literature Anglo-Saxon Period through Neo-Classical
3 Hours(3-0)
A course designed to enable students to develop a historical perspective on the development of ideas and literary techniques by studying major authors, works, and trends in English literature from the Anglo-Saxon Period through the Neo-classical Age. Students will develop their critical thinking, research, and writing skills. Course assignments will include a minimum of 6000 words of writing. Prerequisite: ENGL 1302.

ENGL 2323 British Literature Romantic Period through Contemporary
3 Hours (3-0)
A course designed to enable students to attain a historical perspective on the development of ideas and literary techniques by studying major authors, works, and trends in English literature from the late 18th century through the 20th century. Students will develop critical thinking, research, and writing skills. Course assignments will include a minimum of 6000 words of writing. Prerequisite: ENGL 1302.

ENGL 2326 Masterworks of American Literature
3 Hours (3-0)
A course designed to permit intensive study of six to ten masterpieces of American literature from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Course assignments will include a minimum of 6000 words of writing. Prerequisite: ENGL 1302.

ENGL 2327 Survey of American Literature to 1860
3 Hours (3-0)
A course designed to acquaint the student with the varied works of American literature from the Colonial Period through 1860 within the historical and multicultural influences that shaped those works. Students will discuss, research, and write about literature from the period. Course assignments will include a minimum of 6000 words of writing. Prerequisite: ENGL 1302.

ENGL 2328 Survey of American Literature 1860 through Contemporary
3 Hours (3-0)
A course designed to acquaint the student with the varied works of American literature from 1860 to the present within the historical and multicultural influences that shaped those works. Students will discuss, research, and write about literature from the period. Course assignments will include a minimum of 6000 words of writing. Prerequisite: ENGL 1302.

ENGL 2331 World Literature
3 Hours (3-0)
A course designed to enable students through reading assignments, class discussion, and written analyses to develop critical skills and to research writers and developments in English translations of literatures other than those of the United States and Western Europe. Course assignments will include a minimum of 6000 words of writing. Prerequisite: ENGL 1302.

ENGL 2332 Masterpieces of the Western World to 1600
3 Hours (3-0)
A course designed to enable students to read, view, listen to, analyze, and discuss significant works from the ancient world through the Renaissance and further their research and writing skills. Course assignments will include a minimum of 6000 words of writing. Prerequisite: ENGL 1302.

ENGL 2333 Masterpieces of the Western World: 1600 through Contemporary
3 Hours (3-0)
A course designed to enable students to read, view, listen to, analyze, and discuss significant works in the major periods of the Western literary tradition since 1600. Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism/Naturalism, Modern/Contemporary and further their research and writing skills. Course assignments will include a minimum of 6000 words of writing. Prerequisite: ENGL 1302.

ENGL 2342 Forms of Literature I
3 Hours (3-0)
The study of one or more literary genres including, but not limited to, poetry and fiction. Course assignments will include a minimum of 6000 words of writing. Prerequisite: ENGL 1302.

ENGL 2343 Forms of Literature II
3 Hours (3-0)
The study of one or more literary genres including, but not limited to, drama and film. Course assignments will include a minimum of 6000 words of writing. Prerequisite: ENGL 1302.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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