19 courses with the subject EN, 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.
This course will include a thorough presentation of the academic writing skills necessary for college and one’s profession/ministry. Students will learn to write expository and argumentative essays that are free of errors which obstruct reader comprehension. Research and application of material will be a focus of this course.
This basic grammar course deals with the foundational concepts which build the strongest clarity in writing. It includes the functions of the parts of speech, sentence structure, phrases, punctuation, and common errors and differences of standard and nonstandard English. This study in grammar and writing will enable writers, speakers, and teachers to make application of grammar skills to their verbal and written work.
This course is designed to enable the student to communicate clearly and effectively in written and spoken word. Emphasis is on academic writing style, employing rhetorical strategies, and the processes for researching and writing.
This writing course presents an overview of reading, discussion, and writing throughout various academic disciplines. The coursework seeks to strengthen reading and writing skills and establishes connections among biblical studies, psychology, literature, and other areas of the humanities.
This course provides a cursory study of rhetorical techniques and application of principles for writing effectively in a variety of genres including poetry, short story, creative non–fiction, and plays. Prerequisites: EN105 or EN121.
This writing course emphasizes skill development as students analyze, write, and edit contemporary writing for the Christian community. Students will examine and discuss professional models from the 20th and 21st centuries. They will then write and edit various types of articles and essays aimed at the Christian market. Emphasis is on using Scripture contextually. Christian writing must address needs of a changing culture while remaining true to unchanging Scripture.
This writing course emphasizes skill development as students analyze, write, and edit creative nonfiction prose in its various subgenres. The course employs a workshop atmosphere emphasizing content, structure, and style in student writing. Students will also examine and discuss professional models to trace this genre’s roots in memoir, literary journalism, and the personal essay. Prerequisite: EN105 or both EN121 and EN122; and EN234.
This course examines the verbal and written forms of professional communication. Emphasis is placed on clear and succinct expression with a focus on audience and purpose. Topics include developing professionalism, conducting business research, preparing proposals and reports, engaging in collaborative decision making, developing formal and informal presentations, explaining data through storytelling, and employing technology to craft compelling content that drives action in today’s global marketplace and nonprofit sector.
This advanced course studies the philosophy, systems, and patterns by which words work together to form sentences. It includes the functions of verbal and other phrases, coordinate and subordinate clauses, and sentences well as diagramming. This study in grammar theory will enable writers, linguists, and teachers to make application of grammar skills to their work. Prerequisite: a basic understanding of elemental English grammar.
This course covers the fundamental principles of interviewing, reporting, editing, and presenting material for newspapers, magazines, journals, and other media publications. Writing of news stories, feature articles, reviews, and editorials will be part of the writing component. Layout and graphic appeal will be covered in the newspaper section of study. Practical skills and organization of a writing staff will comprise the third component of the course.
This course provides students with observation and practical experiences in the area of academic writing in conjunction the Campus Writing Center. Students will work under a faculty mentor and participate in the various phases of writing skills development and tutoring.
Electives—choose 15 credits
This course will give the student further opportunities to develop the fundamentals of structure, description, characterization, point of view, dialogue, and plot in the area of fiction writing. Focus will be on writing short stories. Models will be examined and discussed from secular and Christian sources in order to trace the development of shorter fiction. Addressing the needs and formulas of potential publishers will be a culminating activity of the course.
This course emphasizes development of a mature, professional style in expository writing by study of stylistic and analytical principles underlying effective, stimulating prose and by writing major papers. Careful attention will be given to principles of criticism and analysis. Prerequisite: EN105 or both EN121 and EN122.
This course seeks to bring all the facets of current journalistic approaches to the student experience as modern journalists must be able to record events, interview, take pictures, create narratives, and bring their findings to varied media approaches.
This course of independent study is open to students interested in areas not covered by current course offering, providing an opportunity for a student to work closely with a professor in the choosing, design, development, and completion of a project. Prerequisite: permission of instructor.
This seminar will provide qualified candidates an opportunity to work closely with a mentoring professor in the field of the student’s study. Prerequisite: invitation by professor.
This course in literary criticism deals with the philosophies, systems, and patterns by which literature is studied. The focus of the course is to understand how to work with literary text within its literal, grammatical, cultural/historical context in order to determine authorial intent. Works that lay the foundation for literary criticism will be examined and several stellar literary texts will be evaluated.
This course is an advanced study of the writing of papers for academic and professional discourse. The student will have the opportunity to practice and master a systematic procedure for effectively organizing and writing graduate-level papers of all kinds: research, essays, critiques, and other papers required of students in a variety of disciplines. This is a writing intensive course.
Source: Clarks Summit University's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 59
