(eng) English Courses

Note: Initial selection of an English composition course is determined by results of college skills placement testing. Applicability of credits for courses below the 100 level toward degree requirements is limited. Consult an academic advisor.


(4 credits)  ENG 023 - Introduction to College Composition I
First-level developmental course designed to help students write 400- to 650-word essays on topics in various academic disciplines. Students are guided in developing a writing process that improves essay development, coherence, grammar, and punctuation. Prepares students for Introduction to College Composition II, a second-level foundation course. 4 lecture hours

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(4 credits)  ENG 024 - Introduction to College Composition II
Prerequisite: ENG 023 or placement test
Second-level developmental course. Students write 400- to 750 word essays about concepts in various academic disciplines. Focus is on developing a writing process that helps student writers to form positions and analyze and evaluate their own and other writers' ideas. Students also improve their sentence and essay structure, tone, and overall coherence. 4 lecture hours

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(4 credits)  ENG 033 - Introduction to College Reading I
Prerequisite: placement test
Designed to provide access to collegiate study through engaging students as readers and thinkers while drawing on and integrating their individual life experiences. Students read, respond to, and think critically about readings, using literacy approaches that will help them grow as readers and thinkers during the semester and beyond. 4 lecture hours

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(4 credits)  ENG 034 - Introduction to College Reading II
Prerequisite: ENG 033 or placement test
Designed to foster student engagement with complex ideas from college-level texts and other media. Students critically read, analyze, and synthesize readings from across academic disciplines, and problem-solve when course material allows, using literacy approaches that help them grow as readers and thinkers during the semester and beyond. 4 lecture hours

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General Education course Communication
(3 credits)  ENG 101 - English Composition I
Prerequisite: placement test or minimum C grade in ENG 024 and ENG 034
College-level composition course designed to assist students in writing 750- to 1500-word essays on topics in various academic disciplines. Focuses on development and support of ideas, essay structure, critical thinking, analysis of readings, and other aspects of writing. Students are introduced to research techniques and documentation. 3 lecture hours

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General Education course Communication
(3 credits)  ENG 102 - English Composition II
Prerequisite: ENG 101 with a minimum C grade
Second-level composition course designed to assist students in writing 1500- to 3000-word essays, including a formally documented research paper. Readings introduce students to literature and the analysis of concepts, language, and formal elements. 3 lecture hours

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General Education course Communication
(3 credits)  ENG 112 - English Composition II with Speech
Prerequisite: ENG 101 with a minimum C grade
A variation on standard ENG 102, differing with its focus on the interpretation, analysis and creation of a broad spectrum of workplace documents rather than on literature. Construction of a lengthy, well-supported research paper and accompanying PowerPoint presentation is central. Speech component is fulfilled through multiple in-class presentations. 3 lecture hours

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(3 credits)  ENG 131 - Journalism I
Corequisite: ENG 101
Introduction to the news media with particular emphasis on the newspaper and newswriting, the history of the press, and controversial issues facing the press. Active participation with the student paper, The College Voice, is integral. 3 lecture hours

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General Education course Humanities
(3 credits)  ENG 201 - Introduction to Literature: Drama
Prerequisite: minimum C grade in ENG 102 or divisional permission
Examines the evolution of staged presentations from religious ritual to secular theater, covering works from the classical Greek period to the present day. Focuses on Elizabethan theater, Restoration comedy, 19th century realism, and contemporary theater. [Spring offering - alternate semesters] 3 lecture hours

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(3 credits)  ENG 202 - Introduction to Literature: Novel
Prerequisite: minimum C grade in ENG 102 or divisional permission
Study of novels from various periods selected for their intrinsic value and as representative types of fiction. [Spring offering] 3 lecture hours

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General Education course Humanities / Diversity and Global Perspective
(3 credits)  ENG 203 - World Literature I
Prerequisite: minimum C grade in ENG 102 or divisional permission
A survey of important literary works from cultures around the world dating from ancient times through the 17th century. [Fall offering] 3 lecture hours

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(3 credits)  ENG 204 - World Literature II
Prerequisite: minimum C grade in ENG 102 or divisional permission
A survey of important literary works from cultures around the world from the 17th century through the present day. [Spring offering] 3 lecture hours

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(3 credits)  ENG 205 - American Literature I
Prerequisite: minimum C grade in ENG 102 or divisional permission
Introduction to and selective study of authors representing the enduring traditions and styles of American literature from the Puritan period through the Civil War. [Fall offering] 3 lecture hours

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(3 credits)  ENG 206 - American Literature II
Prerequisite: minimum C grade in ENG 102 or divisional permission
Survey of American literature from 1865 to the present, including authors whose work represents the traditions and styles of American literature. Short stories, novels, poetry, and essays cover topics such as regionalism, realism, naturalism, modernism, and postmodernism. [Spring offering] 3 lecture hours

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(3 credits)  ENG 208 - Modern American Novel
Prerequisite: minimum C grade in ENG 102 or divisional permission
Traces the triumph of prose Realism over Naturalism and the recurrent forms and techniques of the contemporary novel in the American idiom. Emphasizes the novel as the dominant modern American literary art form, as a social document, and as a portrait of time and place. [Fall offering] 3 lecture hours

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General Education course Humanities
(3 credits)  ENG 211 - Shakespeare
Prerequisite: minimum C grade in ENG 102 or divisional permission
A survey of Shakespeare's tragedies, comedies, and histories -- a body of work whose characters, themes, and language influence and permeate literature worldwide, and is essential to cultural literacy. [occasional offering] 3 lecture hours

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(3 credits)  ENG 212 - Introduction to Literature: Poetry
Prerequisite: minimum C grade in ENG 102 or divisional permission
Explores poetry as imagery, figurative language, allusion, tone, rhythm, meter, rhyme and stanza form. Students read major English and American poetry as well as verse from a variety of cultures to provide background for reading poems more incisively. [Fall offering - alternate semesters] 3 lecture hours

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General Education course Humanities / Diversity and Global Perspective
(3 credits)  ENG 213 - African American Literature
Prerequisite: minimum C grade in ENG 102 or divisional permission
Survey class focusing on the critical evaluation of literature by writers of the African Diaspora produced in the Americas from the 18th century to the present and the contexts in which they were produced. Genres studied may include fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, and autobiography. [Spring offering] 3 lecture hours

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(3 credits)  ENG 214 - Literature of the East
Prerequisite: minimum C grade in ENG 102 or divisional permission
Survey of rich, diverse, non-Western creative and philosophical traditions influencing literary expression in a wide variety of genres, including regional and diasporic literature spanning the world. Covers classical era texts to experimental literary forms coming from the East and Middle East today. 3 lecture hours

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(3 credits)  ENG 215 - Creative Writing I
Prerequisite: minimum C grade in ENG 102 or divisional permission
Develops writing skills in various genres, such as fiction, poetry, and essay. Recognized models in literary modes are analyzed for craftsmanship. Through workshop framework, students benefit from peer and instructor criticism and are encouraged to find individual voice under instructor guidance. [Not a Literature elective.] 3 lecture hours

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General Education course Humanities
(3 credits)  ENG 216 - Literature Into Film
Prerequisite: minimum C grade in ENG 102 or divisional permission
Focuses on the marriage of two art forms -- literature and film -- and pays particular attention to how the medium affects the writer and the writer the medium. Examines selected novels, short stories, plays, essays and/or memoirs as original works and as each evolves into film. [Fall and Spring offering] 3 lecture hours

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(3 credits)  ENG 218 - Creative Writing II
Prerequisite: minimum C grade in ENG 102 or divisional permission
Promotes continuing development of creative writing skills; analyzes recognized models by major modern writers. Through workshop framework, peers and instructor critique student work. Students are encouraged to hone their writing voices under instructor guidance. [Not a Literature elective.] 3 lecture hours

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General Education course Humanities
(3 credits)  ENG 220 - Science Fiction Literature
Prerequisite: minimum C grade in ENG 102 or divisional permission
Explores science fiction through a study of genre elements and the challenges these genres present. By examining a diverse selection of speculative literature, participants better appreciate and interpret such works and how they both reflect and change our culture. [Spring offering] 3 lecture hours

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(3 credits)  ENG 221 - Women in Literature
Prerequisite: minimum C grade in ENG 102 or divisional permission
A discussion-based course that explores literature by women writers. Texts cover a variety of authors and genres as well as themes, issues and theories concerning the production of gender in literary works. Further develops the literary analysis and academic writing skills acquired in ENG 102. [Fall offering] 3 lecture hours

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General Education course Diversity and Global Perspective
(3 credits)  ENG 222 - Children's Literature
Prerequisite: minimum C grade in ENG 102 or divisional permission
Survey class focusing on the critical evaluation of literature written for children and the contexts in which they were produced. Works studied may include folk tales, traditional fairytales, picturebooks, canonized fiction, poetry, and contemporary works. [Fall and Spring offering] 3 lecture hours

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(3 credits)  ENG 223 - LGBTQ+ Literature
Prerequisite: minimum C grade in ENG 102 or divisional permission
Survey of representative literature that tracks the modern social evolution of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, + (LGBTQ+) community in the United States and abroad. Examines various cultures and their diversity in terms of sexuality, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and other aspects of queerness or “otherness.” 3 lecture hours

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General Education course Humanities
(3 credits)  ENG 227 - English Literature I
Prerequisite: minimum C grade in ENG 102 or divisional permission
Survey of representative literature from the Anglo-Saxon and Middle English periods through the Neoclassical period. Particular attention to the works of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Donne, Dryden and Pope. Examines literary, social, cultural, and political movements as writers grappled with empire, religion, science, war, gender, sexuality, race, and class. [Fall offering - alternate semesters] 3 lecture hours

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(3 credits)  ENG 228 - English Literature II
Prerequisite: minimum C grade in ENG 102 or divisional permission
Survey of representative English literature from the Romantic and Victorian periods up to the present. [Spring offering - alternate semesters] 3 lecture hours

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(3 credits)  ENG 230 - Special Studies in Literature
Prerequisite: minimum C grade in ENG 102 or divisional permission
Consists of special courses in literature which cater to needs expressed by the student and the broader general community. Taking advantage of particular faculty expertise, the course is offered on an occasional basis. 3 lecture hours

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General Education course Diversity and Global Perspective
(3 credits)  ENG 232 - Post-Colonial Women Writers
Prerequisite: minimum C grade in ENG 102 or divisional permission
Examines works written in English by women of color in Asia, Africa, the Americas, and Australia. Explores contributions of the writer to the body of modern world literature -- poetry, fiction, drama -- along with aspects of the writers' politics and the social milieus that form their work. [occasional offering] 3 lecture hours

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(3 credits)  ENG 239 - Literature of War and Conflict
Prerequisite: minimum C grade in ENG 102 or divisional permission
Surveys literary responses to war and conflict with particular focus on the psychological effects of warfare. Examines multiple genres, cultures, eras, and viewpoints, but primary focus may rest on a particular era or conflict. May include texts by Homer, Sun Tzu, Stephen Ambrose, Oppenheimer, Hemingway, Tim O'Brien, and Elie Wiesel. [occasional offering] 3 lecture hours

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(3 credits)  ENG 241 - Journalism II
Prerequisite: ENG 101
Addresses the various kinds of newswriting (straight news, features, interpretative, editorial), editing, and the techniques of reporting (interviewing; surveys; coverage of events, meetings, speeches). Actual newspaper production aspects including layout, photojournalism, and graphics are experienced through practical work on the student paper, The College Voice. 3 lecture hours

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(3 credits)  ENG 256 - Fantasy Literature
Prerequisite: minimum C grade in ENG 102 or divisional permission
Explores fantasy literature through a study of genre elements and the challenge this genre presents to readers of mainstream literature. By examining works written in and translated to English, participants better appreciate and interpret such works and how they represent an increasingly important sub-section of literary expression. [Fall offering] 3 lecture hours

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