16 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 0755Essentials of Composition for International Students2
Arts & Sciences This course is equivalent to Essentials of Composition and is designed to develop tenets of writing necessary for success in English Composition. Coursework will take the form of intensive practice and focus on writing mechanics, including grammar, punctuation, clarity, and syntax, as well as organizational strategies for effective essay configuration. This course should only be taken with English Composition for International Students. Students must receive a D or better to receive credit for English Composition for International Students. credit(s): 2
Arts & Sciences This is a co-requisite course designed to develop tenets of writing necessary for success in English Composition. Coursework will take the form of intensive practice and focus on writing mechanics, including grammar, punctuation, clarity, and syntax, as well as organizational strategies for effective essay configuration. This course should only be taken with English Composition. Students must receive a D or better to receive credit for English Composition. credit(s): 2
ENGL 1055English Composition for International Students with Essentials3
Arts & Sciences This course is equivalent to English Composition and is designed to address the language and cultural needs of English Language Learners. The course prepares students to become effective readers and writers in the classroom and beyond. Students will deepen their understanding of writing by composing different types of college essays, such as argument, analysis, and evaluation. By focusing on the writing process, this course will help students address some of the challenges facing English Language Learners. credit(s): 3
ENGL 1060English Composition for International Students3
Arts & Sciences This course is equivalent to English Composition and is designed to address the language and cultural needs of English Language Learners. The course prepares students to become effective readers and writers in the classroom and beyond. Students will deepen their understanding of writing by composing different types of college essays, such as argument, analysis, and evaluation. By focusing on the writing process, this course will help students address some of the challenges facing English Language Learners. credit(s): 3
Arts & Sciences English Composition prepares students for the common writing tasks required in college and the profession, including analysis, argument, and research. Students will learn to read critically and adapt the maneuvers of practiced writers to changing rhetorical objectives. Students will also learn to cite research sources according to APA guidelines and to generate original texts in a systematic way: through brainstorming, drafting, peer collaboration, and revision. The class engages with emergent technologies like generative AI to consider how the act of writing is changing and how digital tools might empower critical thinking and assist writers achieve a stated purpose. credit(s): 3
Arts & Sciences English Composition prepares students for the common writing tasks required in college and the profession, including analysis, argument, and research. Students will learn to read critically and adapt the maneuvers of practiced writers to changing rhetorical objectives. Students will also learn to cite research sources according to APA guidelines and to generate original texts in a systematic way: through brainstorming, drafting, peer collaboration, and revision. The class engages with emergent technologies like generative AI to consider how the act of writing is changing and how digital tools might empower critical thinking and assist writers achieve a stated purpose. credit(s): 3
Arts & Sciences This advanced English language course is designed for international and multilingual students. It draws from the areas of phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics to improve skills in writing, speaking, and listening. This course is designed to teach students how to successfully employ advanced language skills throughout social, academic, and professional contexts. Restricted enrollment. credit(s): 3
Arts & Sciences This course is centered on writing poetry. To aid progress, students will read various essays on the art of writing, reading, revising and appreciating poetry. They will also explore examples of poetry in its various forms to familiarize themselves with the many poetic styles. Students will write and discuss original works and obtain both oral and written feedback. credit(s): 3
ENGL 2214Creative Writing - Fiction and Nonfiction3
Arts & Sciences Students learn and practice fundamental skills for writing short fiction and various modes of creative non-fiction. Assigned readings in nonfiction and fiction serve as inspirational models for student work. Specific lessons on technique and device aid in the development of macro and micro skills; in-depth professor critiques and consultation facilitate improvement. Writing creatively, according to the dictates of the imagination, improves students’ writing skills and enhances critical thinking. Readings will include but not be limited to the work of Joan Didion, Sherman Alexie, Ernest Hemingway, Truman Capote, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Jhumpa Lahiri. credit(s): 3
Arts & Sciences This course covers a selection of notable fiction of the past twenty-five years, with a focus on texts by U.S. writers. We will read short stories and novels representing recent styles and concerns and learn to recognize the formal features of contemporary fiction-a category often suspicious of interpretation- and consider their procedures and effects. Reading is supplemented by critical commentaries, contextual essays, and discussion of contemporary topics like climate change, crises of Western democracy, war and terror, and the role of faith and magical thinking in a modern worldview. credit(s): 3
Arts & Sciences This course offers a sequential look at literature by Black Americans, beginning with slave narratives and abolitionist speeches and moving to writings from Reconstruction, the Harlem Renaissance, the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Arts Movement. We will read a range of texts that will include poems, short stories, novellas, autobiographical vignettes and novels that address topics of race, racism, slavery, sexism, racial passing, colorism, immigrant experience, feminism, and resistance. Writers whose work will be read and discussed may include Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Toni Morrison, Nella Larsen, James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Toni Cade Bambara, Jean Toomer, W.E.B. DuBois, Maya Angelou, Edwidge Danticat and Octavia Butler. The larger goal of the course is the recognition of Black Literature as products of social activism, significant artifacts of American history, and as tools for social justice. credit(s): 3
Arts & Sciences This course surveys the diverse poets, poetic forms, themes, techniques and sensibilities that we have come to designate as “modern.” Students study the poetry of Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, T.S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, and other English-language poets of the 19th and 20th centuries. Students are expected to attend at least one poetry reading outside of LIM College. credit(s): 3
Arts & Sciences This course surveys the novels, plays and poems of prominent American authors of the previous century. Themes of national and individual identity, the idea of an “American art,” the emergence of the “American century,” questioning of values, commerce and its effects on the individual, the rise and pitfalls of capitalism, and the individual vs. the community are examined. Authors include Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemingway, Zora Neale Hurston, Flannery O’Connor, and others. credit(s): 3
Arts & Sciences In this course, students encounter texts that represent a broad spectrum of the global cultures, peoples and literary forms of the 20th and 21st centuries. Students will read fiction and essays that speak both to regional and domestic concerns and to the episodes of contact - war, trade, travel - that have brought cultures together. The course is an opportunity to experience the major concerns of the past 115 years, whether devastation in Europe, the legacies of colonialism in the Global South (the nations of Africa, Central and Latin America, and most of Asia), or racial segregation in America, and to study the often radical literary forms that writers turned to as a response. credit(s): 3
Arts & Sciences Students taking this course will learn to write analytically about contemporary literary works by non- Western writers. Instruction is devoted to various methods for analysis, including close reading and a consideration of cultural and historical contexts. The stories, poems, plays, and articles assigned in this class will ultimately initiate broader conversations about such topics as migration, race, ethnicity, labor, cosmopolitanism, cultural exchange, and cultural memory. We will attempt to gain insight into the human factors behind modern controversies and policies and to approach those controversies with nuance and creativity. Student work will culminate in a final project that integrates research and literature in order to take an original look at a topic of global scope. credit(s): 3
Arts & Sciences Students taking this course will learn to write analytically about a wide field of contemporary literary works by non-Western writers. Instruction is devoted to advanced methods of analysis, including close reading, consideration of cultural and historical contexts, and the rendering of critical theory and theories of the subaltern. The stories, poems, plays, and articles assigned in this class will ultimately initiate broader conversations about such topics as migration, race, ethnicity, labor, cosmopolitanism, cultural exchange, language, identity, trauma, and biopolitics. We will attempt to gain insight into the human factors behind modern political crises and controversies and to approach those controversies with nuance and creativity. Student work will culminate in a final project that integrates research and literature, as well as an array of written work and new digital media, in order to take an original look at a topic of global scope. credit(s): 3
