27 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 0108Workshop for Writing and Research Skills3
Engages students in reading, writing, and self-management strategies required in college. The course is a co-requisite for English 1108: Writing and Research; it directly supports learning and success in that course and other college courses. Pre-Requisites READ 0090 or ENG 0099 Co-Requisites ENG 1108 Major Content Areas Writing process Essay structure and development College documentation systems Reading for college coursework Non-cognitive skills for college success Learning Outcomes Reading: Recognize writer’s rhetorical strategies and genres and choose comprehension strategies appropriate for target texts. Reading: Develop processes for reading critically, responding to and synthesizing information, and representing outside sources in essays, using summary, paraphrase, and quotations. Noncognitive Skills: Recognize, articulate, and problem-solve to address issues with emotions and attitudes, classroom skills, and time management that may interfere with a student’s learning and success .Noncognitive Skills: Demonstrate a readiness to access resources. Process: Employ a writing process involving invention, drafting, revision, and editing. Focus/Structure/Organization: Create texts that demonstrate a fundamental awareness of coherence and unity by using strategies such as purposeful organization. Development and Support: Demonstrate an ability to present focused ideas in writing and sustain them through the use of relevant and specific evidence and explanations. Clarity and Conventions: Revise and edit texts to make them comprehensible for specific audiences and writing contexts.
Students will analyze primary and secondary sources and develop formal research writing in students’ academic and/or professional disciplines including EMS, Paralegal, and Criminal Justice. Pre-Requisites ENG 1108 with grade of C or better. Major Content Areas Critical reading of texts for specific disciplines. Using and integrating sources (including paraphrase, summary, and response). Research and rhetorical strategies. Citation and documentation standards. Learning Outcomes Explore issues in a specific academic or professional discipline in order to select relevant research topics. Demonstrate proficiency in research and writing strategies. Gather, evaluate, synthesize, and apply information from sources. Construct a clear, goal-oriented thesis. Use appropriate organization, language, and citation methods for a specific discipline. Demonstrate discipline-specific knowledge of audience and rhetorical situations. Create discipline-specific documents that employ effective techniques for specific writing situations. Engage in guided revision and/or writing workshops. Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (MNTC) Goals 02 - Critical Thinking 01 - Communication
Emphasizes critical analysis of fiction or nonfiction texts, at least one book-length, resulting in a research paper that reflects analysis and synthesis of multiple sources. Pre-Requisites ENG 1108 with grade of C or better. Major Content Areas Strategies for textual and analysis and critical reading. Research strategies and evaluation of sources. Development of an effective thesis idea. Construction of effective support for literary. interpretation or position on nonfiction tex.t Documentation using an appropriate method. Techniques for revising and editing. Learning Outcomes Demonstrate critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Create discipline-specific documents that employ effective techniques for specific writing situations. Engage in guided revision and/or writing workshops. Demonstrate an understanding of authority, point-of-view, audience awareness, and individual voice/style in writing. Use syntax and diction appropriate to academic disciplines and the professional world. Distinguish the logical connections between facts, goals, and assumptions relevant to a problem, and evaluate claims which may be said to follow from them. Demonstrate discipline-specific knowledge of audience and rhetorical situations. Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (MNTC) Goals 02 - Critical Thinking 01 - Communication
Focuses on the creation of writing in web-based contexts (such as wikis, blogs, multi-modal essays, and other emergent forms) composed with images, links, audio, and/or video; on analysis and application of the elements of attractive web page design; and on presentation of information in a concise and appealing style. Pre-Requisites
Introduces students to the grammatical and stylistic strategies necessary to effectively edit and proofread professional documents. Students will practice revising at the structural and sentence levels. The course supports students preparing for a wide variety of professional settings, such as business, paralegal, computer science, engineering, nursing, and others. Placement by Accuplacer assessment into English 1108 or completion of ENG/EAP 0099 with a C or better. Pre-Requisites
Emphasizes critical audience analysis of professional texts across the disciplines, at least one book length, resulting in a professional research proposal, feasibility study, or report that reflects analysis and synthesis of multiple sources, persuasion, and students’ mastery of professional and audience analysis, business writing, researching, and evaluative skills. Pre-Requisites ENG 1108 with grade of C or better. Major Content Areas Strategies of audience analysis using text analysis (case studies, journals, and/or other documents equal to a book length text. Construction of internal and external proposals (workplace and grant), feasibility studies, and/or recommendation reports. Development of professional communications (emails, letters, and memos), et al. Research strategies and evaluation of sources.Development of an effective thesis. Documentation and citation using appropriate methods. Techniques for revising and editing. Learning Outcomes Develop a document that addresses a specific problem or issue in a way that takes into account audience needs and perspectives. Demonstrate critical thinking and problem solving skills useful in a variety of professional contexts. Demonstrate discipline-specific knowledge of audience and rhetorical situations.Create discipline-specific documents that employ effective techniques for specific writing situations. Engage in guided revision and/or writing workshops. Identify, summarize, evaluate, and synthesize material from diverse sources, culminating in a professional paper demonstrating research techniques. Construct logical and coherent arguments that analyze professional texts. Demonstrate an understanding of authority, point-of-view, audience awareness, audience analysis, and individual voice/style in writing. Use syntax and diction appropriate to academic disciplines and the professional world. Apply factual information to a given problem in a manner that is relevant, clear, comprehensive, and conscious of the bias in information selected. Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (MNTC) Goals 02 - Critical Thinking 01 - Communication
Introduces students to developing, writing, and presenting information in technical settings, including the use of graphics to enhance visual appearance and usability. Students will work on a variety of assignments, including writing and revising technical reports and articles, procedures, and mechanism descriptions. Students will explore options for using technology to convey information efficiently and appropriately. Emphasis is on audience analysis, effective design, and clear, concise, accurate expression. Pre-Requisites
Introduces students to selected works from Western and non-Western literary traditions (including Africa, Asia, and Latin America) with a focus on their cultural/historical contexts. Includes both contemporary and ancient texts (one book-length) with a particular interest in stressing those themes that exemplify the ideals and concerns of our shared human condition and the spread of ideas beyond national boundaries. Pre-Requisites
Provides guided practice in various types of creative writing with the emphasis on skills common to creative expression. Assists students in discovering and developing their own best medium for expression, whether fiction, poetry, drama, creative non-fiction (Emphasis may vary with instructor.) Students will identify select portions of writing for small and/or large group presentation. Pre-Requisites
Engages students in the craft and techniques of writing fiction. Provides exposure to models, discussion, and guided practice in various types of fiction writing. Students will participate in large or small group workshops to develop critique and feedback skills. Pre-Requisites
ENG 2214American Literature: Colonial Era to the Civil War4
Surveys American literature from the Colonial Era to the Civil War with an emphasis on cross-cultural contact and settler colonial nation building as well as enslavement, racism and systemic marginalization within US politics, economics, and culture. Pre-Requisites
ENG 2215American Literature: The Civil War to the Present4
Surveys American literature from 1860 to the present with critical attention to power, justice, racism, and systemic marginalization within US politics, economics, and culture. Pre-Requisites
ENG 2222British Literature: The Middle Ages to the Age of Reason4
Surveys British Literature from the Middle Ages through the Eighteenth Century. Authors include Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, Swift, and Pope. Pre-Requisites
Surveys significant mythic stories from around the world, such as Africa, Egypt, the Far East, Great Britain, Greece, Mesopotamia, North and South America, and Scandinavia. Universal themes and the nature of the mythic hero are considered as well as the role and value of myth to our lives. Works considered may include essays, short stories, films, plays, poems, and novels. Pre-Requisites
Placement into ENG 1108 or completion of both ENG 0099 and READ 0093/0094 with a grade of C or higher.
ENG 2238Contemporary Fiction3
Explores recently published short stories and novels which represent diverse cultural and artistic expressions and the race, power, and justice themes and issues inscribed in the assigned works. Emphasis will be on North American writers, but works by writers from other countries may be included. Pre-Requisites
Provides an introduction to the methods of examining and understanding the complexity, range, and diversity of poetry, drama, fiction, and nonfiction writing by and/or about women Pre-Requisites
ENG 2240Representations of the Body in Literature and Culture3
Takes the human body as its central theme and explores that theme through literature, history, and film to reveal the complex interactions of diversity, especially race, power, and justice in the US, and persistent structural racism embedded in those relationships. Pre-Requisites
Explores various perspectives regarding social justice, equity, and social change within literature. Through a range of genres, students will analyze ways that literature invites a thoughtful consideration of the ethical dimensions of political and social policy as they consider their own opportunities to exercise responsible and productive citizenship. Pre-Requisites
Examines a prominent theme, figure, period, or genre in literature. Topics will be determined in advance by the instructor and published in the class schedule. Pre-Requisites
Provides guided practice in developing and revising writing of a specific genre (e.g. poetry, memoir, play, screenplay, literary journalism, short fiction, creative nonfiction). Assists writers in developing their own approaches to a single genre in addition to learning about the stages of development applied to a particular piece. Pre-Requisites
Explores novels of the 19th through 21st centuries, including the origins, conventions, and transformations of the novel form. Students will also study the novel as an agent and product of its historical and cultural era, especially with regard to differences among groups that have suffered discrimination and exclusion. Pre-Requisites
Explores a selection of works by William Shakespeare, including a careful reading and interpretation of representative tragedies, comedies, and histories. Examines formal as well as thematic elements of the selected works as well as historical influences. Pre-Requisites
ENG 2255Introduction to Literary Studies: Literature and the Environment4
Explores a wide range of environmentally focused issues through the study of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, policy, technical reports, and/or film. Major themes are cultivating environmental awareness; understanding spiritual, symbolic, and practical responses to the environment; conflicting attitudes toward the environment; and achieving harmony with the environment. Sources will be chosen from a variety of traditions and cultures. Pre-Requisites
