Minneapolis Community and Technical College · Courses
ENGL
28 courses with the subject ENGL, 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.
ENGL 0900Fundamentals of Written English5.00
(5.00 lec) This course will prepare you for college-level writing. You will write several essays and a reflective letter. Your essays will include your perspective on an issue and your analysis of other writers’ ideas. You will focus on learning the writing process so that you can generate ideas and organize them into essays; you will also review grammar and mechanics. A committee will evaluate two of your essays and your letters to decide whether you pass the class. Must be taken Pass/No Credit. of ESOL 0041.
(3.00 lec) This course focuses on analyzing and practicing workplace communications such as reports, proposals, instructions, letters, memos and email. A balance between learning the process and creating the product will help you understand the expectations and issues surrounding common and complex workplace writing. placement. 2013–2014 Catalog | Minneapolis Community & Technical College
HLTH Course Choose any course from the Health offerings 2.00 INFS 1000 Information Literacy and Research Skills 2.00 PHED Course Choose any course from the Physical Education 1.00 offerings **General Education Choose any course in MnTC Goal Area 6 3.00 TOTAL CREDITS: 14.00
MnTC Goal Area 02: Critical Thinking To help you become a thinker who is able to unify factual, creative, rational and value-sensitive modes of thought. Critical thinking will be taught and used throughout the general education curriculum in order to develop your awareness of your own thinking and problem-solving procedures. To integrate new skills into your customary ways of thinking, you must be actively engaged in practicing thinking skills and applying them to open-ended problems. COURSE # TITLE FYST 1000 Orientation to Higher Education FYST 1010 Career Planning FYST 1015 ESOL Strategies for College Success FYST 1100 Strategies for College Success INFS 1000 Information Literacy and Research Skills PHIL 1110 Critical Thinking
(3.00 lec) This course covers a wide range of writing about human experience and the environment, such as essays, stories, journals, poems, music lyrics, and plays. You will read literature of the Americas written over several centuries that will focus on our changing and diverse human experience within the environment, as well as on our attitudes toward the physical world. Fullfills MnTC Goal Areas 6 and 10. 385
(3.00 lec) This course covers the basic elements of the novel. You will apply critical skills in discussing and writing about novels from various ethnic groups and communities from within the United States, possibly including Native American, European-American, Hispanic-American, Asian-American, and African-American. You will identify patterns, values and assumptions within the novels. By developing critical responses, you will increase your understanding of the novel as an art form, of the societies in which the novels arose and of yourself. Fulfills MnTC Goal Areas 6 and 7.
(3.00 lec) This course offers an analysis of various forms of poetry and their structures. You will use critical-thinking procedures to work your way through the elements of poetry, as well as the contexts in which poetry is written. As a result of this course, you will appreciate and enjoy poetry more, while also developing your analytical skills. You will examine a cross-section of poetic styles and eras and will read and think critically about poetry from a variety of culturally and ethnically diverse American writers. Fulfills MnTC Goal Areas 6 and 7. 2013–2014 Catalog | Minneapolis Community & Technical College
(3.00 lec) This course gives you the chance to read and go to plays. You will learn the fundamentals of drama, such as comedy, tragedy, plot setting, character, staging and irony; go to local theaters to see how a play is actually staged; and discuss and write about plays to analyze what you have read and seen on stage. Fulfills MnTC Goal Area 6.
(3.00 lec) This course reviews selected readings and films from the evolving genres of science fiction and fantasy. You will learn how to analyze these texts from a variety of viewpoints: aesthetic, historical, feminist, psychoanalytical and ethical. You will examine the works as reflections of real contemporary issues in environmental, technological, cultural, economic and political spheres. Through discussions, writings and projects, you will connect the concerns raised in the works to your own society and its values. Fulfills MnTC Goal Areas 6 and 9.
(3.00 lec) This course explores a range of literature written in English by women within the United States. The course will focus on multiple literary genres: poetry, drama, long and short fiction, journals, essays, autobiography and memoir. You will read the literature of women across diverse cultures within the United States. You will explore themes of power, culture, class, ethnicity, and sexuality, and you will learn about feminist literary theory Fulfills MnTC Goal Areas 6 and 7. 386
General Education Choose any MnTC Goal Area 3 with a lab Science 4.00 TOTAL CREDITS: 16.00 216 2013–2014 Catalog | Minneapolis Community & Technical College
(3.00 lec) This course covers practice in writing both poetry and fiction, with emphasis on development of individual style and form, as well as an analysis of professional works and devices. In addition to working on creative self-expression, you will develop the abilities, craft and discipline needed to produce quality writing that allows you to reach an audience: training your voice, developing a personal style, experimenting with structure, enhancing your descriptive skills, improving your command of language, and establishing techniques for revising. You will study various types of poetry and fiction, and give and receive feedback online from peers and your instructor. Fulfills MnTC Goal Area 6.
(3.00 lec) This course covers aspects of writing effective poetry. In addition to working on creative self-expression, you will develop the abilities, craft and discipline needed to produce quality poetry that allows you to reach an audience: training your poetic voice, developing a personal style, experimenting with structure, enhancing your descriptive skills, improving your command of language, and establishing techniques for revising. You will study various types of poetry: lyric, narrative, free and formal verse, surreal and collage forms. You will give and receive feedback in student workshops. Fulfills MnTC Goal Area 6. 387
(3.00 lec) This course covers various aspects of writing effective fiction. In addition to working on creative self-expression, you will develop the abilities, craft and discipline needed to produce quality fiction that allows you to reach an audience: training your voice, developing a personal style, experimenting with structure, enhancing your descriptive skills, improving your command of language, and establishing techniques for revising. You will study various types of contemporary fiction: realism, surrealism, magical realism, experimental writing, children’s stories and fairy tales. You will give and receive feedback in student workshops. Fulfills MnTC Goal Area 6.
3.00 credits (3.00 lec) This course examines the literature of the Americas, concentrating on literature produced in the territory that became the United States from European conquest through the mid-19th century. Among the literature you read will be Native American works; writings of the European conquerors and colonists; African-American works; and early-to-middle-19th-century fiction, poetry, and prose. Fulfills MnTC Goal Areas 6 and 7.
3.00 credits (3.00 lec) This course examines literature of the United States from after the Civil War through the present. You will read and consider fiction, poetry, and prose that reflect the diverse social, cultural, and literary experiences of the inhabitants of the United States. Fulfills MnTC Goal Areas 6 and 7.
3.00 credits (3.00 lec) This course covers selected English literature from the Anglo-Saxon period through the age of Johnson. In studying this period, you will be a witness to major foreign invasions of England and to the evolution of English language and literature, which are both products of interactions between the native populations and the outside world. You will study literary works in their historical, social, and world contexts; engage these works from your own perspective; and gain insight into British culture and how it is the result of ethnic and cultural influences within the British Isles, the European continent, and beyond. Fulfills MnTC Goal Areas 6 and 8.
3.00 credits (3.00 lec) This course covers selected English literature from the Romantic period through the present. You will come to understand these works in terms of historical, social and world contexts. You will also gain insight into British culture and how it is the result of ethnic and cultural influences within the British Isles, on the European continent, throughout the former British Empire, and in the world beyond. Fulfills MnTC Goal Areas 6 and 8. 388
3.00 credits (3.00 lec) This course explores the emergence and formal development of the historical African American literary tradition. You will read texts beginning in the 17th century through the latter half of the 20th century, including work by slaves, ex-slaves, those surviving Reconstruction, those surviving the era of Jim Crow, those from the Harlem Renaissance, and those flourishing in the Black Arts Movement. You will examine diverse genres, which may include but are not limited to the following: slave narratives, novels, plays, poems, speeches, song lyrics and music. Fulfills MnTC Goal Areas 6 and 7.
3.00 credits (3.00 lec) This course explores the emergence and formal development of the contemporary African American literary tradition. Popular writers such as Terry McMillan and Walter Mosely will be featured, as well as younger writers who are just beginning their careers. You will explore themes including relationships, race/racism, family life, neighborhoods, work life, through genres as diverse as short stories, poems, novels, song lyrics, speeches, hip hop, rap, and blues. Fulfills MnTC Goal Areas 6 and 7.
