39 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 1100Introduction to College Composition3
Offers practice for students in exploring the processes of composition in various genres. Introduces composing strategies with an emphasis on developing and structuring ideas for specific audiences and purposes, recognizing and editing grammatical and mechanical errors, providing constructive peer feedback, and revising.
Emphasizes the practice and process of composition with a focus on research, inquiry, and exploration of the genres of argument, analysis, and narrative. Offers the strategies, structures, and conventions for composing in a variety of modalities and provides foundational skills for evaluating, summarizing, and synthesizing academic sources.
This course provides an overview of three major literary forms (drama, poetry, and prose fiction) with particular emphasis on their fundamental formal elements and conventions. Readings illustrate these elements and conventions, as well as afford students the opportunity to discuss, appreciate, analyze and write about literature.
This course provides students with an overview of English as a discipline, including the interplay between the subdisciplines. Students will become familiar with various approaches to interpreting narrative and non-narrative literary and cultural texts, and develop strategies for writing and research within and across the subdisciplines.
This course provides an overview of how we acquire and use language to symbolically represent fundamental dimensions of social behavior and interaction. Students will analyze language use in different contexts and how both language and literacy affect a wide range of personal, social, and cultural encounters.
Examines and practices reading and writing across professional contexts - health and human services, community, natural sciences, business, and more. Students develop genre awareness and adaptability for real-world audiences and purposes.
This course focuses on the rhetorical practices, skills, and language conventions needed to effectively design and compose texts across a range of genres defined by the instructor each term. Students develop facility with genre as a rhetorical tool through a collaborative, process-based approach that requires revision and the development of a course portfolio.
ENGL 2210Writing in the Health and Human Services Professions3
The course focuses on the conventional forms of writing within the health and human sciences professions, including reports, educational materials, and public health campaigns. Students will synthesize information to create documents, including visual or multimedia texts, that respond to the needs of specific audiences.
This course focuses on the rhetorical practices, skills, and language conventions needed to effectively communicate scientific knowledge and research and to participate in scientific conversations. Students will learn how to appropriately communicate based on their audience, purpose, and context in a variety of digital and print genres.
This course focuses on the rhetorical practices, skills, and language conventions needed to effectively design and compose texts in business. This includes researched-based proposals, visual texts and reports (infographics), and visual/oral presentations. This course emphasizes a collaborative and process-based approach to writing.
This course will center on a specific topic and the way in which literature deals with the context of its creation and/or the culture in which it is created. It might include such topics as Native American Literature or the Literature of Work. Students may repeat this course as topics will rotate every semester.
American Literature I surveys authors and works from pre-Columbian Native America to the American Civil War, studying writers, genres, and narrative forms that have contributed to America’s diverse literary and cultural history.
This course studies literary developments in America from the American Civil War to the present, with emphases on major writers and their contribution to changing concepts of literary form, genre, and content.
British Literature Survey I focuses on the literature of the English-speaking peoples of the British Isles and Commonwealth from the origins of written English through the neo-classical period. Includes instruction in the major authors, genres, cultural context, and criticism of the period from 450 to 1785.
This course studies literary developments in Great Britain from 1800 to the present with emphases on major writers and their contribution to cultural contexts, and changing concepts of literary form, genre, and content.
World Literature Survey I examines classic literary texts from the beginning of literary civilizations through the 17th Century. In close readings of myths, epics, lyric poems, novels, and plays, students will traverse cultural and linguistic boundaries and explore the political, socio-cultural, and religious origins of world masterpieces.
Representative literary works from various periods and cultures after the year 1600 are examined to familiarize students with a variety of literary traditions and how they probe tensions, conflicts, and connections within and across societies and cultures. Most works are read in translation.
This course provides an introduction to Shakespeare’s plays and poetry through an examination of his language, the cultural contexts of his time, and contemporary and modern instances of reception and performance.
This course provides an introduction to the writing of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and drama. Students will generate and revise rough drafts in each genre; learn the formal similarities and differences among them; read and discuss exemplary poems, prose, and plays; and further develop critical thinking and writing skills.
This course focuses on the skill of reading texts in the 21st century. Students will explore the diverse ways of critical reading and how these shape critical thinking, creativity, and problem-solving. Students will read both traditional and new media texts to examine how functional and critical perspectives shape generations of readers.
This course examines how texts construct and sustain discourse communities across professional, civic, and academic contexts. Students read and produce writing for real-world purposes - including grant and proposal writing, workplace communication, and research writing - developing rhetorical flexibility and a critical understanding of how professional writing functions within and across communities.
A study of exposition adapted to the needs of students in the sciences and engineering, using analytical written presentations, correspondence, technical reports, and scientific papers.
For majors in all disciplines. Students choose and research a topic of interest within their discipline and learn how to conduct research, write a review of literature, create and analyze questionnaires, interpret data, and present findings.
This course offers a focused study into the literature of a specific culture, literary form, or genre. Students will read and analyze a variety of texts to understand the history and aesthetic of a selected literary form or the cultural issues of a specific era. Students will be able to repeat the course (up to 9 credits) as topics will rotate every semester.
Literature for Young Adults is a reading intensive course, intended for people who plan to teach in secondary English settings, and for those discerning readers who are interested in young adult literature as a significant genre worthy of serious study.
Students enrolled in this course compile a portfolio of original poetry; analyze the work of contemporary and canonical practitioners of the form; reacquaint themselves with the power of oral recitation; undertake a practical study of poetic form and rhetoric; and critique the work-in-progress of their peers.
This is a workshop-based practicum within a designated genre of creative writing. Students will compose and revise drafts of original creative work, analyze the work of contemporary and canonical practitioners of the form, and critique the work-in-progress of their peers.
Students enrolled in this course will study the major components of dramatic writing for theatre, including action, character, and dialogue; will read and analyze the work of contemporary and canonical practitioners; and will critique the in-progress work of their peers .
Provides an intensive study of English grammar and usage. Emphasizes differences between prescriptive and descriptive approaches to usage, and between traditional and contemporary, linguistics-based approaches to grammar.
This course studies the English language from Anglo-Saxon times through early modern English, with emphasis on the diachronic development of grammatical and lexical patterns. Students will examine the historical effects of migration, invasion, language contact, and technology that influenced specific changes in English.
Introduces students to the theories and practices of a variety of literacy activities, primarily focusing on reading and writing practices, but extending to the theories of literate practices across disciplines and modes. Applies these theories to service-learning projects that engage students with learners of all ages.
1 TO 6 Permits students to explore an area of special interest in the English language or its literature. Students must develop a plan of study, secure the approval of a member of the English faculty willing to supervise the project, and submit the plan to the department chair. Maximum credits–six.
This keystone experience for the English BA includes publication of a journal of literary and/or scholarly work. The course builds on the skills and knowledge acquired in the program’s concentrations and in English Studies, generally.
Students will become adept at revising and editing the writing of others. Students will develop proficiency in addressing copy editing, style, tone, purpose and audience. In addition, students will explore the relationship between writers and editors and the process of drafting and revision.
This course presents no more than three authors from the literary canon or a single topic that plays a significant role in the creation of literature across eras and cultures. The subject matter will revolve depending on the interest and work of the instructor. It will also move the students toward professional writing in the field of literature.
An introduction to the theories comprising major schools in literary criticism, this course provides practice in applying these theories to literary analyses.
Provides a systematic study of theory and practice in the teaching of writing, conducted through workshop methods. Requires extensive writing and a major written project.
The English Seminar is a workshop-based practicum for all English Majors. Students will write an extensive project in the discipline of their choice and provide written critiques of workshop participants. A public presentation of student literature provides students practice in presenting their work.
