Northland Community and Technical College · Courses
ENGL
19 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 0095Reading and Writing 3/0/03
This course is designed for students with Accuplacer Reading scores below 250. The course covers the following concepts in reading and writing: main ideas and supporting details, understanding the writing process, relationships, inferences, distinguishing fact from opinion, determining purpose and tone, evaluating arguments, and developing / demonstrating essay-level skills in response to assigned readings and topics. Students who complete this course with a C or better will fulfill their developmental reading and writing requirements. Prerequisite(s): None.
(Fulfills MNTC Area: 6) This course includes the reading of literature, such as poetry, short stories and drama, and the writing of critical essays. Prerequisite(s): None 2024—25 Northland Course Descriptions Page 96
(Fulfills MNTC Area: 6) This course introduces students to the basic elements of literary study, including literary analysis, critical interpretation, and theoretical approaches. The couse introduces students to literary theory and its applications, offers framework for understanding the historical evolution of literary studies, and introduces students to a range of approaches to the study of texts. Prerequisite(s): None
(Fulfills MNTC Area: 6) This course includes directive practice in writing biography/autobiography, children's stories, short stories, poetry, and drama. Prerequisite(s): ENGL0095
(Fulfills MNTC Areas: 2, 6) This course is designed to introduce the student to images of women in literature by reading and analyzing works from diverse era and cultures. Students will read from a variety of genres including stories, poetry, novels, and essays written by women with the goal of analyzing the portrayal of women as daughters, sisters, friends, wives, and mothers. Prerequisite(s): None.
(Fulfills MNTC Area: 6) Students will analyze and compare literature and film in order to understand the scope and variety of the human experience and the techniques used by authors and directors to capture that experience. The analysis and comparison will be done using standard bibliographic citation methods and critical analysis of the literary works and films. Genres that will be considered include westerns, comedy, action, quest, horror, feminist, classical, and science fiction. Prerequisite(s): None.
(Fulfills MNTC Areas: 6, 7) This course is a study of multicultural literature to gain an understanding and an awareness of the cultural diversity in the United States. It looks at the conflicts and motivations, successes and failures of those different ethnic origins, economic backgrounds and religious beliefs. Prerequisite(s): None
(Fulfills MNTC Area: 6) This course is a broad survey of English literature from the Old English period to the Restoration period in the 18th century. Prerequisite(s): None
(Fulfills MNTC Areas: 6, 8) This course includes the reading of literature, such as poetry, fiction, drama, and nonfiction from the rich literary tradition of Asia, India, the Arabic world, the Americas, Europe, and Africa. Prerequisite(s): None 2024—25 Northland Course Descriptions Page 97
(Fulfills MNTC Area: 6) This course includes reading various plays from several periods and genres and analyzing their cultural contexts, genres, structures, characters, dialogue, themes, symbols and motifs, and staging. Prerequisite(s): None
(Fulfills MNTC Area: 6) This course includes reading and discussing the elements of short stories, as well as writing about them. Prerequisite(s): None
