This is an interdisciplinary course that provides a foundation for learning by having students engage in a program of coordinated reading, writing, and discussion assignments including analyzing, questioning, summarizing, and responding to various forms of media, which may include paragraphs, journals, videos, magazine ads, textbooks, and short novels. It addresses vocabulary development and grammar in the context of student writing and speaking.
This course develops students' abilities to write clearly and effectively for different audiences and purposes. Instruction emphasizes the fundamentals of effective expository writing processes including invention, organization, and revision with an emphasis on editing, coherence, and sentence structure.
Students develop rhetorical knowledge; practice critical reading, thinking, and writing; and use a writing process to draft, revise, and edit texts in a variety of genres with an emphasis on thesis-driven essays. This is a level I class.
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Students further develop the skills learned in ENGL 1010 as they interpret, synthesize, and organize primary and secondary sources of information for the purpose of composing a research report. This is a level II class.
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This course prepares students for the communication challenges of today's workplace by surveying business and technical communication principles. Skills learned include writing clearly and concisely, collecting and organizing information and graphics, applying the writing process to a variety of workplace documents, and communicating effectively, both verbally and nonverbally. This is a level I class.
Students produce technical papers and reports demonstrating clear written expression of ideas. Important considerations include the format, organization, logic, and sentence construction of reports. Students focus on the process of writing, including designing, revising, and editing technical documents. This is a level I class.
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Students learn to write clear, coherent, effective business letters, memoranda, and job resumes that reflect considerations of writer intent and reader response. The course stresses appropriate organization and format as well as revising and editing to produce an acceptable copy. This is a level I class.
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Students who complete either Technical Writing or Business Writing continue to learn how to prepare and deliver reports using primary and secondary research. It is integral that students have the ability to recognize problems and determine causes, propose solutions, evaluate various courses of action, and present this information in written and oral reports. This is a level II class.
Students write fiction, poetry, drama, and other literary forms.
This course places students into the complementary roles of editors and writers and guides them through two instructive publishing projects in an effort to introduce students to processes and resources for professional publication of literary writing. As editors, students participate in the process of producing a college literary magazine. As writers, students employ standard writing and research techniques and their knowledge of the editorial process to prepare their own works for submission to reputable publications.
This course provides students with a strong foundation in the purpose, conventions, research, and writing necessary to obtain grant money. This course also emphasizes persuasive and analytical writing styles relevant to the nonprofit community. Students examine and participate in the processes used to research, generate, write, and submit proposals that ultimately lead to approval. Students engage in activities that demonstrate how to identify need within the community, evaluate existing services and projects, and research. Students follow and successfully utilize the proposal and grant writing process from the initial idea through the final submission. Students review and revise several pieces throughout the course, which ultimately lead to the final proposal.
Students explore prose, fiction, poetry, and drama by authors representing a variety of cultural and ethnic backgrounds. Students increase skills in writing about literature as an imaginative medium.
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Students examine the elements of the short story and the history of its development as they read examples of its best practitioners.
This course introduces students to writings by and about women. Students read a variety of writings (short stories, poetry, essays, plays) while studying the social, cultural, economic, and political influences that have impacted women throughout literary history. Students respond to these writings analytically, creatively, and personally.
Students examine the elements of drama, notable dramatic works, and the major dramatic genres from antiquity through the 17th century. (Cross-listed as THEA 2480)
Students examine the elements of drama, notable dramatic works, and the major dramatic genres from the 18th century through contemporary times. (Cross-listed as THEA 2481)
This course provides an overview of major influential Latin American writers and the contemporary and historical issues raised by their works. This course can be taken as an English or a Spanish course.
This course studies American literature from 1600 to the Civil War through the themes, works, and writers of that period.
The study of American literature continues with a study of authors from the Civil War to the present.
Students explore American literature, history, and culture through the contributions of a variety of minority voices. Students experience an assortment of genres: novels, short stories, drama, and poetry.
Students survey literature from the Celtic period through the 19th century.
Students survey literature from the Neoclassic period through the Romantic revolt, Victorian literature, the influence of Irish and Scottish literature, and conclude with the literature of the 20th century.
This course permits instruction in special content areas not included in other literature courses, depending upon interest. Past topics include dramatic literature, detective fiction, African-American literature, and the writings of a particular author.
This course permits instruction in advanced writing not included in other English courses, depending on interest. Writing may include advanced composition, advanced poetry writing, or advanced fiction writing, among others.