English

English courses numbered 210 or higher qualify as Humanities or Liberal Arts electives.

ENG 100L

Writing with Computers - 1 Credit

This course is designed to familiarize students with the writing process and the use of the computer as a writing tool. Instructors combine short lectures with discussion, hands-on learning, and lab assignments. The course includes a review of basic sentence mechanics, sentence combining, paragraph and essay construction via exercises from the Internet. In this basic writing review and active learning experience, students will be exposed to basic word processing skills. The ultimate goal is successful completion of a writing portfolio that demonstrates responsible and active participation in the learning process.

 

ENG 101

English Composition - 3 Credits

This course in expository writing is designed to develop students’ abilities to write effectively with clarity, logic, and coherence. Emphasis is placed on the composing process, organization, sentence and paragraph structure, and usage. At least one essay is based on library research.

Placement by examination. Laboratory and fee may be required.

 

ENG 102

Composition and Literature - 3 Credits

This writing course emphasizes literary appreciation and criticism. Students are introduced to various literary genres: the short story, the poem, the novel, and the play.

Placement by examination. Laboratory and fee may be required. Prerequisite: ENG101.

 

ENG 207

Speech Communications - 3 Credits

This course examines fundamental principles of oral communication with emphasis on the logical development, documentation, and delivery of the basic types of speeches. Students will construct audience analyses and participate in the evaluative process of speeches.

Prerequisite: ENG101.

 

ENG 213

Poetry - 3 Credits

This course examines poetry as a literary genre and offers the opportunity to understand it from historical and aesthetic viewpoints.

Prerequisite: ENG102.

 

 

ENG 214

Short Fiction - 3 Credits

This course examines the short story as a literary genre and offers the opportunity to understand it from historical and aesthetic viewpoints. Particular emphasis is given to American and contemporary authors such as Hawthorne, Joyce, Steinbeck, Welty, Hemingway, and others who have made noteworthy contributions to the genre.

Prerequisite: ENG102.

 

 

ENG 260

African-American Literature - 3 Credits

This course introduces students to African-American writers. Essays, poetry, drama, and fiction from representative African-American writers are read and discussed.

Prerequisite: ENG102.

 

ENG 270

Mythology in Literature - 3 Credits

This course examines ancient legends from classical mythology and other sources from the genetic, generic, psychological, socio-religious, and imaginative points of view. Selected readings illustrate the impact of mythology on literature and the other fine arts.

Prerequisite: ENG102.

 

 

ENG 298

Basics of Journalism - 3 Credits

This course surveys print and broadcast media for the purpose of developing writing skills relevant to news stories, features, editorials, interviews, and surveys.

Cross listed with COM298. Prerequisite: ENG102.

 

ENG 300

Travel Seminar in English - 3 Credits

This course studies the literature of a country or an area (local or international) by visiting historic sites, theaters, museums, lectures, and tours on location. A reading list is provided and a seminar is held before travel. A research paper is required upon completion of travel.

Prerequisites: ENG102 and permission of the instructor.

 

 

ENG 303

Women in Literature - 3 Credits

This course offers students the opportunity to read and analyze fiction and non-fiction from the feminist perspective. The works are examined in order to evaluate the role of women in literature as authors, as characters, and as critics.

Prerequisite: ENG102.

 

ENG 304

Film: The Reel Experience - 3 Credits

This course deals with the elements of film including the script, filming techniques, direction, acting, editing, art and set design, costume and makeup, and historical development. Examples from various genres are viewed for analysis.

Cross listed with COM304. Prerequisite: ENG207

 

 

ENG 307

Bible as Literature - 3 Credits

This course undertakes a close reading of representative selections from the Bible and applies the methods of literary study to the Biblical text. The course seeks to demonstrate that the Bible is not only a collection of literary masterpieces but is in its entirety a work with a coherent literary structure. It is also a principal source of Western literary themes, forms, archetypes, and imagery.

Prerequisite: ENG102 Prerequisites: Above-average achievement in ENG101 and 102, and permission of the instructor

 

ENG 310

Advanced Composition - 3 Credits

This writing course stresses the mastery of more complex forms of expository and argumentative writing. Emphasis is placed on the composing process, vividness of expression, writing for a particular audience, and refining the writer’s style.

Prerequisites: ENG102 and permission of the instructor.

 

ENG 311

Creative Writing - 3 Credits

This course provides extensive imaginative writing of description, dialogue, poetry, and narrative. The course is designed for students who write readily but need direction and consultation.

 

ENG 315

Novel - 3 Credits

This course examines the novel as a literary genre and offers the opportunity to understand it from historical and aesthetic viewpoints.

Prerequisites: ENG214, 270.

 

ENG 322

Modern Drama - 3 Credits

This course provides a comparative study of the major dramatists of the twentieth century. Particular emphasis is placed on analysis of landmark plays which demonstrate the rise of social consciousness in this genre.

Prerequisite: ENG102.

 

ENG 344

American Literature I - 3 Credits

This course examines the nature and development of the major genres as exemplified in the American tradition. Readings are devoted to major American writers and representative works through pre-Civil War period.

Prerequisites: ENG270.

 

ENG 346

American Literature II - 3 Credits

This course examines the nature and development of the major genres as exemplified in the American tradition.

Readings are devoted to major American writers and representative works from the Civil War to World War II.

Prerequisites: ENG270.

 

ENG 348

English Literature I - 3 Credits

This course examines selected masterpieces of poetry, prose, and drama exemplified in the English tradition from the Anglo-Saxon period to the 18th Century.

Prerequisites: ENG270.

 

ENG 350

English Literature II - 3 Credits

This course examines selected English authors of poetry, drama, and prose from the 18th Century to World War II. Prerequisites: ENG270.

 

ENG 362

Shakespeare - 3 Credits

This course introduces students to Shakespeare’s language, themes, and dramatic art. Representative history plays, comedies, tragedies, and poetry are studied.

Prerequisite: ENG270.

 

ENG 406

Literary Criticism - 3 Credits

This course investigates major literary critical theories from Plato to the present; the investigation is both historical and methodological. Students will examine the theories that have shaped the direction that literary forms have taken through the centuries and how the interpretation of literature has been influenced and changed by modern thought.

Prerequisites: Any two of ENG344, 346, 348, 350.

 

ENG 412

Special Problems in English

This course, suggested particularly for English majors, offers a venue for further studies in the triumvirate: writing, literature, and critical theory, or a combination thereof.