(note: all electives are not offered every semester)
ENG 109 Grammar for College Writing
Prerequisite: Eligibility for ENG 101
3 semester hours
This ten-week course offers intensive instruction in English
grammar as it applies to written discourse. In a workshop
setting, students learn to identify parts of speech, sentence
structure, and common grammatical errors. Emphasis is
placed on building knowledge and skills in the context of
actual writing tasks. Graded on a pass/fail basis, the course
may be taken alone or in conjunction with other college
writing-based courses.
ENG 084 Basic Composition
Prerequisite: Placement determined by college
entrance examination or by referral from ENG
066 with a grade of C- or better or by ESL
faculty referral
4 semester hours
This course introduces students to the types of academic
writing required in college courses. Appropriate reading
selections and/or whole books are used for their content and as
effective models. Emphasis is given to developing opinion/
support essays using the writing-as-process philosophy. Word
processing is used for revision, and computer classroom time
is scheduled. Students are introduced to library resources and
taught how to incorporate citations into their papers. Credit is
applicable in selected career and certificate programs only. A
portfolio of course work is required.
ENG 101 Composition
Prerequisite: Placement determined by college
entrance exam, completion of ENG 084 with a
grade of C or better, or by recommendation of
ESL faculty
3 semester hours
This course develops students’ abilities to write effective
essays and to reason critically. A review of grammar and
syntax, as needed, is included. The goals of unity, coherence
and logical development are pursued through analysis of
professional and student essays and through practice of
prewriting, writing and revision techniques. Students learn
various organizational patterns. Students will write and revise
several essays.
ENG 102 Literature and Composition
Prerequisite: ENG 101
3 semester hours
This composition course is a continuation of work on skills
begun in ENG 101. Students receive further instruction in
composition and write frequently in and out of class. The
analytical and critical essays they produce focus on fiction,
drama, and poetry. To prepare for these writing tasks, students
learn how to read and appreciate various literary genres, how
to interpret literature, and how to explain and support their
ideas in writing.
ENG 114 Children’s Literature
Prerequisite: ENG 101
3 semester hours
This course presents an overview of children’s literature,
focusing on picture books, traditional literature and contemporary
children’s novels and non-fiction. Topics include the
relationship of illustration and text and oral interpretation of
children’s literature. Students read many picture books and
several children’s novels and apply analytical techniques to
write both formal and informal papers. They also keep a
journal. Interactive computer participation is required for this
course.
ENG 150 Introduction to African-American Literature
Prerequisite: ENG 101
3 semester hours
The rich contribution of African-American writers to the
American literary tradition is the subject of this course.
Students read the works of Jupiter Hamman, the slave
narratives of the nineteenth century, writers from the Harlem
Renaissance and postwar authors such as Richard Wright,
Toni Morrison, Ralph Ellison and Alice Walker. This
literature is studied in the context of American cultural
history.
ENG 160 Introduction to Literature by Women
Prerequisite: ENG 101
3 semester hours
This course will focus on the works of female writers. Its
purpose is to allow students to develop a sense of the range,
variety, and quality of the writing of those women whose
voices are not always included in literary canons. Authors are
considered from both historical and feminist perspectives.
ENG 180 Introduction to Creative Writing
Prerequisite: ENG 101
3 semester hours
This is a first course in the creative expression of ideas,
principally in fiction and poetry, although other forms of
writing are considered. The class typically includes writing,
reading and discussion of fiction, non-fiction and poetry.
ENG 200 Advanced Composition
Prerequisites: ENG 101 and ENG 102
3 semester hours
This course emphasizes writing that explains, informs,
analyzes and persuades. Students write extensively, both in
and out of class, and build upon the skills mastered in ENG
101 and ENG 102 . Students also engage in rhetorical, stylistic
and thematic analyses of their own writing and the writing of
others and further develop revision strategies.
ENG 211 The Short Story
Prerequisites: ENG 102
3 semester hours
This course focuses on the development of the short story,
primarily from the 19th century to the present. It includes an
investigation into the roots of the short story (narrative poems,
fables, tales, parables), and close reading of classic short
stories by acknowledged masters of the form, complemented
by a wide-ranging examination of contemporary short stories
that emphasizes the rich diversity of experiences, voices, and
forms available to us through this literary genre.
ENG 221 American Literature I
Prerequisite: ENG 102
3 semester hours
EN 205 offers a study of the main currents of American
literary thought against the background of historical and social
developments from the Puritan period to the Civil War. The
course focuses on the works of such writers as Franklin, Poe,
Hawthorne, Melville, Emerson, Thoreau and Whitman.
ENG 222 American Literature II
Prerequisite: ENG 102
3 semester hours
This course offers a study of American literature covering the
period from the Civil War to the present. The course focuses
on the works of major writers such as Dickinson, James,
Twain, Hemingway, Eliot, Fitzgerald, O’Neill, Faulkner,
Cather, and Ellison.
ENG 231 British Literature I
Prerequisite: ENG 102
3 semester hours
This course surveys British literature from its Old English and
Middle English origins to its flowering in the Renaissance and
through the Age of Enlightenment. Among the works and
authors studied are Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green
Knight, the English Bible, Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare,
Donne, Marvell, Milton, Dryden, Swift, Pope and Samuel
Johnson.
ENG 232 British Literature II
Prerequisite: ENG 102
3 semester hours
This survey of British literature enters into the spirit of the age
of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries with the
great Romantics from Blake to Keats; progresses to the
concerns about God and society of such eminent Victorians as
Tennyson and Arnold; and concludes by probing the complexities
of the modern era through such key figures as Woolf
and Eliot.
ENG 233 Shakespeare
Prerequisite: ENG 102
3 semester hours
This course will examine selected themes and issues in
Shakespeare’s major plays from a number of critical perspectives.
Topics for each semester might focus on a single aspect
of the playwright’s work such as Shakespeare’s tragic
perspective from an examination of his Tragedies and
Histories; the playwright’s comic universe from a study of
Shakespeare’s Comedies; the playwright as poet, a study of
his sonnets; or an examination of several themes such as love,
and evaluate that theme as it suggests itself throughout
Shakespeare’s canon. The class might also focus on
Shakespeare in performance or Shakespeare on film. This
course may be taken only once for credit.
ENG 241 World Literature I
Prerequisite: ENG 102
3 semester hours
This course offers a critical survey of the masterpieces of
world literature through the eighteenth century. Among the
authors studied are Homer, Aeschylus, Virgil, Dante,
Cervantes and Voltaire. Selections from non-Western classics
such as the Bhagavad Gita, Gilgamesh and Dream of the Red
Chamber will supplement the survey’s coverage.
ENG 242 World Literature II
Prerequisite: ENG 102
3 semester hours
Providing a critical survey of nineteenth and twentieth century
masterpieces of world literature, this course includes a study
of fiction, poetry and drama by such representative writers as
Goethe, Flaubert, Dostoevsky, Ibsen, Kafka, Brecht, Camus,
Garcia Marquez and Mishima.
ENG 250 Studies in Ethnic Literature
Prerequisite: ENG 120
3 semester hours
This course will introduce students to contemporary literature
by minority writers. Through critical engagement with a broad
representation of multicultural texts, we will broaden our
understanding of how American identity is shaped by
globalization.
ENG 271 Film and Literature
Prerequisite: ENG 102
3 semester hours
This interdisciplinary course explores what happens when
works of literature, such as novels and plays, are adapted for
the screen. In analyzing specific literature-to-film adaptation,
class discussions focus upon elements common to both art
forms (e.g., plot, character, point of view, symbolism and
irony) as well as elements exclusive to each (e.g., visual
images and music in film). Such discussions are intended to
lead students to a deeper understanding of each art form and
the interrelationships between them.
ENG 282 Creative Poetry Writing
Prerequisite: ENG 180 or permission of the
instructor
3 semester hours
This course is a continuation of work on creative writing skills
begun in ENG 180 Introduction to Creative Writing. The
focus, however, is exclusively on the techniques of writing
poetry. Students will work on their own poems while studying
acknowledged masters of the form and discussing such
elements of craft as imagery, tone, meter, rhyme, etc.
ENG 283 Creative Fiction Writing
Prerequisite: ENG 180 or permission of the
instructor
3 semester hours
This course is a continuation of work on creative writing skills
begun in ENG 180 Introduction to Creative Writing. The
focus, however, is exclusively on the techniques of writing
fiction. Students will work on their own stories while studying
acknowledged masters of the form and discussing such
elements of craft as character and conflict, dialogue, point of
view, etc.
ENG 285 Memoir Writing
Prerequisite: ENG 180 or permission of the
instructor
3 semester hours
This course is a continuation of work on creative writing skills
begun in EN 180. The focus, however, is exclusively on the
techniques of writing the memoir. Students will work on their
own memory pieces while studying acknowledged masters of
the form and discussing such narrative elements as character
and conflict, setting, dialogue, voice, and point of view.
ENG 291 Mythology
Prerequisite: ENG 102
3 semester hours
“Myth” means “a story” and this course will chart how mythic
stories have been told through ancient sources: epics, drama,
short prose, and recorded oral tradition. Moreover, modern
manifestations of myth and mythic symbols in film, literature,
and popular culture will be connected to the ancient texts to
demonstrate the commonality and diversity found across
cultures and time. Discussion of myth as theology, cosmology,
and psychological/social phenomena will augment the
treatment of myth as provocative and substantial literature.
ENG 295 Seminar in English
Prerequisites: ENG 101 and ENG 102
3 semester hours
The English seminar offers an in-depth examination of
specialized subjects in English. A particular theme, genre,
time period , literary movement or individual writer is selected
as the focus of the course. Seminar discussions and student
reports are directed at analytical evaluation of the course topic.