ENG 090\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Introduction to College Writing<\/b><\/p>\n
For students not meeting English 101 placement requirements.\u00a0English 090 will prepare students for English 101 (Freshman Composition) by addressing fundamental writing issues at sentence, paragraph, and essay levels, with emphasis on student-generated writing and model essays.\u00a0Only S\/U grades are assigned for this course.<\/p>\n
ENG 101\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Freshman Composition (4)<\/b><\/p>\n
An introductory expository writing course.\u00a0 Students will write a variety of short essays, culminating in a research essay.\u00a0Emphasis is on close reading, discovering worthwhile topics, drafting and revising, and evaluation and presentation of evidence.\u00a0 Students will also be evaluated on the development and implementation of an oral presentation.\u00a0 Meets new General Education Basic Communication requirement.\u00a0Prerequisite:\u00a0COMPASS Placement Test score of 68 or higher or successful completion of ENG 090.<\/em><\/p>\n ENG 105\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Critical Reading and Writing (4)<\/b><\/p>\n Students will write critical essays based on readings.\u00a0The focus of this class will be critical reading and response. Students will be exposed to research methods including information gathering, source evaluation and analysis, synthesizing ideas and evidence and use of documentation. Readings for this class may be topical or organized around a theme.\u00a0An oral presentation based on one of the course topics will be required and evaluated.\u00a0Meets new General Education Basic Communication requirement.\u00a0 Prerequisites:\u00a0ENG 101 or appropriate placement test score.<\/em><\/p>\n ENG 110\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Introduction to Literature (4)<\/b><\/p>\n An introduction to the critical reading of various literary genres, with attention to the interpretation and evaluation of fiction, drama and creative non-fiction. Readings will represent a pan-historical approach to the study of literature and will include non-Western texts. The course will not be arranged by theme or topic; it is designed to cover a broad range of issues, themes, and topics through the study of various literary genres. This course provides a critical and aesthetic introduction to the major genres of literature.<\/p>\n ENG 205\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Creative Writing (4)<\/b><\/p>\n Through writing prose fiction or poetry, students develop competency in narration, description, characterization, and other writing skills developing a personal \u201cvoice\u201d.\u00a0As students write, critique, and re\u2011write, they learn the skill of self\u2011criticism which is a necessary part of all writing.\u00a0Meets new General Education Arts requirement.<\/p>\n ENG 211\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Arts and Cultural Revolution (4)<\/b><\/p>\n A study of one non-Western culture with emphasis on how its beliefs and customs are represented in the arts, including literature and visual arts, during periods of rapid technological and cultural change.\u00a0Comparisons to parallel Western works will be made to clarify cultural difference.\u00a0The culture studied will vary; current subjects are modern Japan, revolutionary Mexico, Russia since the Bolshevik Revolution, and modern Israel.<\/p>\n ENG 310\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Topics in American Literature (4)<\/b><\/p>\n A study of a major period, genre, figure, or theme in American literature. Typical topics include science fiction, twentieth century poetry, slavery and the Civil War, and the image of women in American literature.\u00a0May be taken more than once as topics change. Meets new General Education Humanities requirement.<\/p>\n ENG 311\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Topics in World Literature (4)<\/b><\/p>\n A study of a major period, genre, figure, or theme in world literature. Typical topics include the modern European novel, technology in literature, Shakespeare, modernism, and women and power.\u00a0May be taken more than once as topics change. Meets new General Education Humanities requirement.<\/p>\n ENG 312\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Studies in the Short Story (4)<\/b><\/p>\n Examines the short story as a literary genre.\u00a0 The emphasis is on interpretation, though selections may vary each semester.\u00a0Literary questions provide the occasion for students to develop reading and writing skills and to explore how literature and composition interact. Meets new General Education Humanities requirement.<\/p>\n ENG 320\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Recent American Poetry (4)<\/b><\/p>\n Begins with several major poets of the 1920’s: W.C. Williams, T.S. Eliot, and Wallace Stevens.\u00a0These poets serve as background for the study of poetry since World War II.\u00a0Some of the poets studied will be chosen by the class.\u00a0 Meets new General Education Humanities requirement.<\/p>\n ENG 331\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Black Voices (4)<\/b><\/p>\n Students will become acquainted with several major figures of African\u2011American Literature and will examine their works in light of some of the political, cultural, and sociological influences evident within these works. Meets new General Education Humanities requirement.<\/p>\n ENG 350\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dramatic Literature (4)<\/b><\/p>\n The playwright is a shaper of events as well as a wordsmith.\u00a0Plays from several cultural eras will be studied to clarify the dramatist’s careful balance of plot, character, idea, language, and spectacle. Film and video versions of plays will supplement text study. Meets new General Education Humanities requirement.<\/p>\n ENG 360\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Reading the Film (4)<\/b><\/p>\n By accepting film as a legitimate form of literary expression, we utilize the tools of literary analysis which allow us to “read” the images of the cinema.\u00a0This course will review some of the components of the language of literature and will introduce the basic elements of film technique.\u00a0 Students will be asked to “read,” understand, and critically evaluate the translation of literary elements into the language of film.\u00a0Meets new General Education Humanities requirement.<\/p>\n ENG 361\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Film Direction:\u00a0 Alfred Hitchcock (Variable 2-4)<\/b><\/p>\n Encourages students to critically examine the facets of the film image.\u00a0 Using Alfred Hitchcock as a model, students will be presented with the range of options available to a film director and shown some of the techniques employed to make a text (story) visual.\u00a0Our focus will be on the rhetoric and style found in the language of the cinema as represented in the work of Alfred Hitchcock. Meets new General Education Humanities requirement.<\/p>\n ENG 375\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Novel (4)<\/b><\/p>\n A study of the nature and evolution of the novel, including the social conditions that stimulated its growth and the special characteristics and possibilities of the genre.\u00a0Emphasis will fall on British and American novels from the 18th century to the present, including trends such as the novel of manners, realism, symbolic and impressionistic realism, and recent experiments (“fabulation,” the non\u2011fiction novel). 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