29 courses with the subject ENG, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
ENG 090Basic Reading Skills3
This course focuses on developing reading skills. Students locate main ideas, recognize supporting details, locate transitions, identify patterns of organization, analyze the use of inferences and vocabulary. They employ skimming and scanning techniques, analyze word meaning through contextual and word structure analyses, and develop dictionary skills. The minimum passing grade for developmental courses is a "C". score Please Note: This developmental course cannot be used to satisfy degree or certificate requirements
This course helps students to read independently in college level courses. Students acquire strategies for improving vocabulary and reading comprehension as well as critical thinking skills while emphasizing both academic reading and reading for studying. The minimum passing grade for developmental courses is a "C". 384 CO LLEG E C ATALO G "C" or higher or appropriate placement score Please Note: This developmental course cannot be used to satisfy degree or certificate requirements
This course helps students to gain, practice, and perfect college level reading and comprehension skills using adaptive, self-paced reading technology. Students develop critical thinking abilities, improve vocabulary, language use, reading comprehension, ; and textbook command. The minimum passing grade for college readiness courses is a "C". score Please Note: This college readiness course cannot be used to satisfy degree or certificate requirements
This course helps students develop writing competence using adaptive, self-paced writing technology. Students will practice writing sentences, paragraphs, and essays, while learning how to recognize and use basic sentence patterns and write clear paragraphs containing a topic sentence, idea development, and a supportive conclusion. As students progress, they will write unified, supported, essays using grammatically sound sentences. Assignments are individually paced to prepare for college level writing courses. The minimum passing grade for college readiness courses is a "C". score Please Note: This college readiness course cannot be used to satisfy degree or certificate requirements
This course helps students develop competence in written communication by practicing writing clear sentences and paragraphs. Students learn how to recognize and use basic sentence patterns and to write coherent paragraphs containing a topic sentence, idea development, and a strong conclusion. Students complete a variety of writing assignments and develop the 2026 - 2027 skills needed for ENG 096 Intermediate Writing Skills. Taking the departmental final examination is a requirement of the course. The minimum passing grade for developmental courses is a "C". score Please Note: This developmental course cannot be used to satisfy degree or certificate requirements
This course helps students develop writing competence by practicing writing paragraphs and essays. Students learn to write unified, supported, coherent essays using grammatically sound sentences. Assignments focus on writing a variety of paragraphs and essays in order to prepare for college level writing courses. Taking the departmental final examination is a requirement of the course. The minimum passing grade for developmental courses is a "C". "C" or higher or appropriate placement score Please Note: This developmental course cannot be used to satisfy degree or certificate requirements
The course focuses on theme-based argument. Students practice and develop critical reading, thinking, and writing skills necessary for college. Students read, analyze, and summarize college level analytic arguments from various genres (popular, academic, etc.) and compose research-based analytic arguments based on the course's theme. Students become aware of writing decisions made for different audiences, purposes, and genres, with a focus on academic writing conventions. Students also learn beginning research skills, including appropriate quotation, summary, paraphrase, and documentation skills. At the end of the semester, students compile a portfolio of 15-25 pages, to include their summary, synthesis, and analysis projects. Semester Offered: F/S/SU level English
This course combines the curriculum of ENG 101 and FYE 101 to support students in the transition to college reading and writing through the practice and development of critical reading, thinking, and writing skills. Students read, analyze, and summarize college-level analytic arguments from various genres (popular, academic, etc.) and compose research- based analytic arguments based on the theme “higher education in the 21st century”. Students become aware of writing decisions made for different audiences, purposes, and genres, with a focus on academic writing conventions. Students also learn beginning research skills, including appropriate quotation, summary, paraphrase, and documentation skills. At the end of the semester, students compile a portfolio of 15-25 pages, to include their summary, synthesis, and analysis projects. Semester Offered: F/S/SU placement score
This theme-based course, the second in the composition sequence, develops and refines skills learned in ENG 101, with a specific focus on independent research. Students sharpen rhetorical, critical thinking, and academic writing skills and practice locating, evaluating, summarizing, synthesizing, and citing primary and secondary sources. Students will manage a sustained independent inquiry project(s) to include a research question or problem analysis, an annotated bibliography, and a research project. By the end of the semester, students will compile a portfolio of 15- 25 pages that includes a self-reflection assignment and displays a writing and research process to include pre- writing, drafting, feedback, revision, and appropriate citation. Semester Offered: F/S/SU
This course focuses on writing letters, memos, resumes, lab reports, instructions/processes and technical descriptions, and design visual aids. Instructional emphasis is placed on clarity, correctness, conciseness, audience, precision, accuracy, organization, and document design in writing technical documents. Semester Offered: F/S
This course introduces students to the nature, variety, and artistry of children's stories. Students examine various modes of the genre and investigate why stories are necessary and popular teaching vehicles for the intellectual growth and development of children. Students
This course centers on weekly student writing of poems, short stories, plays or personal essays. Specific Projects will be determined by individual and group interests. Group discussion of works-in- process will aid the student to achieve a significant creative writing project for the semester. Examples of creative excellence will be read and discussed, with some attention to critical and aesthetic theory. Semester Offered: F/S
This course focuses on writing fixed and free verse forms. Students learn the technical vocabulary of poetry and apply it to the work of classic and contemporary poets, as well as their own work and the work of their peers. Students present their poems in a group setting, and receive and provide both oral and written critiques. Semester Offered: F
This course focuses on writing short story and/or novel prose. Students learn the technical vocabulary of the craft and apply it to the work of classic and contemporary fiction writers, as well as their own work and the work of their peers. Students present their writing in a group setting, and receive and provide both oral and written critiques. Semester Offered: S Q U I N SIGAM O N D CO M M U N IT Y CO LLEG E 385
This course covers topics based in reality using the tools of fiction - structure, characterization, plot, scene, dialogue, style, etc. - to animate storytelling and discover truth. Students examine readings from this genre both as scholars and writers, and cover core components of crafting memoir, personal essays, and literary journalism. Students also examine topics that include the role of memory, perception, subjectivity and ethical questions inherent in this genre as students produce original work of creative nonfiction. Semester Offered: F/S
World to 18th Century This course examines the history and growth of great books and ideas and their relevance to modern times. Students read literary selections from the ancient world to the 18th century to help them understand the sense and perspectives of major world writers. Students learn to demonstrate an understanding of both Eastern and Western literary traditions through class discussions and written assignments. Semester Offered: F
to 1750 This course explores British literature from its beginnings to 1750. Students examine major representative authors of the Anglo-Saxon, medieval, Renaissance, metaphysical, and Restoration periods. Students study the major developments in English literature and develop an understanding of the relevancy of key themes of early British literature to present works. The course also explores the evolution of the English language from its beginnings in Old English to its modern-day form. Semester Offered: F 2026 - 2027
1600 to 1870 This course examines American literature from approximately 1600- 1870, covering poetry, fiction, essays, and autobiography. Students explore literary movements and major authors of major American time periods including the Puritan, colonial, Revolutionary, Romantic, Transcendentalist, and abolitionist eras. Students examine how writers influenced both their own times and subsequent generations. Semester Offered: F
This course focuses on reading and analyzing short stories by renowned writers from various cultures. Students participate in class discussions and write papers to demonstrate close reading skills, to express individual interpretation, and to understand the common themes
Special Topics in English provides an opportunity for specialized literary study of various topics from year to year. Special Topics may feature a particular literary theme, an historical era, a genre, a single author or group of authors, specific regional or national literature, or other topics defined by the teaching professor. Research papers or projects may constitute a significant portion of the course requirements. This course will vary in any number of ways according to the discretion of the instructor and the instructor's choice of text(s). Semester Offered: F/S
This course examines African American literature and vernacular culture from 1746 to 1940. Students explore the major authors, genres, aesthetics, political movements, and intersectional tropes of the period. The course focuses on the slave narrative, the Abolitionist movement, minstrelsy, the Civil War, racial uplift politics, Reconstruction, plantation literature, Post-Reconstruction, the New Negro movement, the Great Migration, the New Deal, Popular Front radicalism, and social realism. Students also explore representations of the law and technology in the primary texts. The course emphasizes African American resistance, agency, transculturation, intertextuality, and cultural continuity.
This course examines African American literature and vernacular culture from 1940 to 2017. Students explore the major authors, genres, aesthetics, political movements, and intersectional tropes of the period. The course focuses on the Great Migration, Popular Front radicalism, social realism, the Civil
