Course Descriptions
English Course Descriptions
English courses numbered 210 or higher qualify as Humanities or Liberal Arts electives.
ENG100
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.
ENG101
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.
ENG102
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: ENG110.
ENG110
College Writing - 3 Credits
This course is designed to develop and refine the analytical/critical reading skills and the substantive writing skills of freshmen. This intensive writing class will focus on writing essays of varying length and expose students to the various rhetorical modes of writing that will contribute to their success in university courses and their chosen careers.
ENG120
College Writing II - 3 Credits
College Writing II looks to expand upon the writing skills attained in ENG110. As a student-centered course, students explore their own writing in peer, group, and self-review skill sessions. Students enhance self-editing skills and increase awareness of the revision skills needed in both college coursework and in careers. The course will further develop students' understanding of the writing process from pre-writing to final draft. This course encourages students to have their writing evaluated across the curriculum. The course culminates in a research essay and portfolio of original work.
Pre-requisite: ENG110.
ENG130
Literature and Composition - 3 Credits
Students develop skills in understanding and appreciating genres such as poetry, fiction and drama. Additionally, students apply critical methodologies and investigate relationships between literature and society, thus confirming their analysis and writing skills.
ENG203
Children's Literature and Language Arts - 3 Credits
This course is designed to acquaint students with an integrated approach to children’s literature. Folk and multicultural literature and contemporary issues in children’s literature will be examined. Explores the use of technology in educational settings and plans for literature based units.
Prerequisite: ECE/CHS111
ENG207
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: ENG110.
ENG213
Poetry - 3 Credits
This course examines poetry as a literary genre and offers the opportunity to understand it from historical and aesthetic viewpoints.
Prerequisite: ENG120.
ENG214
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: ENG120.
ENG260
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: ENG120.
ENG270
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: ENG120.
ENG298
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: ENG120.
ENG300
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: ENG120 and permission of the instructor.
ENG303
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: ENG120.
ENG304
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
ENG307
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: ENG120, above-average achievement in ENG110 and ENG120, and permission of the instructor
ENG310
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: ENG120 and permission of the instructor.
ENG311
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.
ENG315
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, ENG270.
ENG322
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: ENG120.
ENG362
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.
ENG406
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, ENG346, ENG348, ENG350.
ENG412
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.