43 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.
Develops strategies for college reading, writing, and learning. Explores language, literacy, and personal academic goals. Activities take students step by step through college learning processes.
Develops processes and strategies for college reading, writing, studying, information literacy, digital literacies, and research. Helps students become active participants in their own learning.
The writing studio is an active learning course that supports each student’s individual goals as a college writer and critical reader. Students participate in workshop activities within a community of other writers in a student-centered learning space. The course emphasizes strategies and processes for adapting writing to different college-level audiences, purposes, genres, and fields of study. It is recommended that students take ENGL 1010 or a writing-intensive course in the same semester as this course.
Students develop composition skills to prepare for college reading and writing experiences. Emphasizes rhetorical knowledge and skills; critical thinking and reading; information literacy; and adapting to college. With peers, students read and write for specific purposes and audiences, develop flexible writing processes, and meaningfully revise drafts. May be taught with a CEL focus.
Course examines theoretical principles, practical applications and ethical approaches of public and professional writing and places these concepts in experience-specific settings and contexts with the focus on writing as human interaction.
Study of written and visual genres about diverse U.S. culture in order to explore the structures that serve to the advantage of certain social groups and to the disadvantage of others.
This course is an introduction to the study of linguistics through the lens of “bad” language, exploring the constructions that influence how and why language is taboo in different cultures. Since taboos exist in all languages, using these polarizing language features as a focus gives students a better understanding of not just how language works, but how people and language influence each other.
This course explores popular US Literature through a study of genre; focus varies by semester. Using close reading, analysis, and discussion, the course investigates complex social issues as represented in multimodal texts. Applying critical and scholarly approaches, students will build a deeper understanding of how popular US literature and culture influence and shape each other.
The course introduces students to the nature of human language from the perspective of modern linguistics. Focuses on sounds, words, and structure through analysis of data from various languages. Additional topics may include social and geographic variation, language change through time, first- and second-language acquisition, and language and culture.
Introduces students to the theory, practice, and pedagogy of writing centers and provides practical experience through Community-Engaged Learning opportunities at SLCC’s Student Writing Center (SWC) and Community Writing Center (CWC).
Introduces students to the theory and practice of production, circulation, and distribution of printed and digital writing. Provides experience with publication software and equipment. Students will assist peers with production.
In this course students will learn about the theory and practice of producing literary arts magazines. Students with gather submissions from the student body, select pieces for publication, and edit and layout the magazine and website to produce SLCC’s own magazine Folio. Students with gain experience with publication software and equipment.
Students propose a possible writing project for example, genre-based-fiction or poetry-or technical writing, then meet with the instructor a number of times throughout the semester to create and revise the project.
Supervised work experience in a business, industrial or government environment related to the program. Credit for successful completion of specific learning objectives that provide new learning related to the job and the program.
Students continue to develop composition skills to prepare for academic reading and writing experiences across the disciplines. Emphasizes academic inquiry, research, and persuasion. Students continue to practice writing and revision processes, collaborate with peers, and write for specific purposes and audiences. May be taught with a CEL component.
Through a critical study of language use in U.S. society, this course interrogates the social and political contexts in which language circulates. Students systematically investigate structural relationships of power and language use across a range of U.S. identities and communities.
Introduces the academic discipline of Writing Studies, which treats writing as both an activity and a subject of study. By reading and discussing contemporary scholarship and conducting primary research projects, students encounter threshold concepts key to understanding how writing studies scholars think and talk about writing. Intended for students exploring a major or minor in Writing Studies.
When we think of “superpower” we think of extra-human abilities: flight, speed, strength. But the greatest superpower may actually be a human power: Writing. Writing can pause time, heal pain, possess bodies, control minds, and make us immortal. This course studies writing as a human artifact, practice, process, and system that carries great power…and great responsibility. It is recommended students complete ENGL 1010 prior to taking this course.
This course introduces students to the study of visual rhetoric through film, music, television, varied texts, and digital media. Students will develop analytical skills, apply cultural theories, and write detailed analyses of popular culture texts. It is recommended students complete ENGL 2010 prior to taking this course.
Students continue to develop composition skills to prepare for professional writing in technical and scientific fields, and contextualizing assignments in the workplace. Students practice writing and revision processes to produce diverse workplace documents, collaborate with peers, and adapt rhetorical strategies to cultural, social, and political contexts. May be taught with a CEL component.
Study of the importance of ordinary people and their constructions of cultural meanings. Popular creation of material goods, oral traditions, customs, and meaning-making are examined through academic and hands-on methods.
This course will introduce the genres of imaginative writing (poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and hybrid), and examine the origins, conventions, and cultural meanings of creative writing. Cross-cultural readings will demonstrate how human experiences and values are shaped by human agency and social context. The course stresses critical reading and thinking, creative and reflective practice, workshop, and revision.
This course will review the elements, origins, conventions, and cultural meanings of poetry. Readings across a wide spectrum of cultural and aesthetic backgrounds will cover fixed and open forms, as well as the theories that drive concepts such as imagery, figurative language, the poetic line, form, and the cultural place of poetry. Course stresses critical reading, workshop, and revision.
This course will review the elements of fiction, and examine the origins, conventions, and cultural meanings of fiction. Readings will cover literary fiction, flash fiction, and multiple genres. Course stresses critical reading, workshop, and revision. We will focus on the details of well-crafted fiction, including plot, character, and style.
This course promotes understanding creative nonfiction genres and writing processes in their cultural/historical contexts. Students develop the skills to analyze, critique, and contextualize creative nonfiction theories and texts from across cultural traditions. Students apply concepts of genre and craft through various creative nonfiction projects, such as memoirs, a variety of essays, and literary journalism.
Introduction to the history and conventions of the novel. Students will read, analyze, and practice various genres. Course invites writers to explore various structures.
Interpretive strategies for reading Shakespeare. Approach from traditional critical positions, moving to current social cultural and political reinterpretations. Students examine contemporary retellings of the plays.
This course considers the “public” and “organizational” work of digital writing. Specifically, the course emphasizes the principles and practices of producing, distributing, and circulating various forms of writing within textual networks. It emphasizes collaborative writing and audience-driven revision.
This course explores texts written for children through the elementary level. Emphasis is placed on scope, artistic merit, and selection.
A study of prose style through the lens of grammar, focusing on shaping sentences, paragraphs, and longer discourses for rhetorical effect, elegance, clarity, readability, and coherence. Students will gain practical abilities to edit their own and others prose.
English 2600 explores literature across fiction, drama, poetry, and essays through critical analysis and appreciation of diverse texts. Examining different genres and contexts, students will develop a deeper understanding of literature’s role in reflecting and shaping human experience. This course encourages reflective engagement with texts to uncover the intricate interplay of language and life.
This course emphasizes the reading and analysis of literary texts by ethnically and culturally diverse American writers. Students will read a range of genres in order to interrogate historical, political, and cultural ideas of diversity and better understand how American literature, aesthetics, and values have shifted over the course of our history.
Survey of literature from around the world. The goal of the course is to promote an understanding of the literary works in their cultural/historical contexts and of the enduring human values that unite the different literary traditions. Special attention is given to critical thinking and writing within a framework of cultural diversity as well as comparative and interdisciplinary analysis.
Examine how writing can activate a reader’s moral imagination & can function as an act of social justice. Using narrative theory, explore the ways in which multiple genres address social justice through reading & writing. Discuss theories & conceptual frameworks of social justice as well as multiple issues: racism, sexism, classism & able-ism.
This course introduces students to major theoretical movements in literary history including Marxism, psychoanalysis, structuralism, postcolonialism, feminism, race, gender, and queer theories with an emphasis on discussion and critical reading.
Introduces students to a representative sampling of world literature from ancient times to 1800 in relation to intellectual and historical developments. Exposes students to historically influential literary texts as well as literature that has lived on the margins. It is recommended students complete ENGL 2600 prior to taking this course.
Introduces students to a representative sampling of literature from 1800-present in relation to intellectual and historical developments. Exposes students to influential literary texts as well as literature that has lived on the margins. It is recommended students complete ENGL 2600 prior to taking this course.
This course studies gender as it is constructed, performed, evaluated, and negotiated through language. It examines multimodal texts as catalysts for discussions about gender and its intersections with other aspects of human identity and areas of culture that stem from identities. The course explores gender and society moving from theoretical understanding to practical interpretive application.
Course examines the range of U.S. women’s voices and explores how racism, sexism, and cultural imperialism affect identity formation and relations between the powered and the disempowered. It is recommended students complete ENGL 1010 prior to taking this course.
Examines the theories, histories, and critical moments shaping the field and practice of Professional and Technical Writing. Builds skills in communicating across multiple technical genres, applying problem-solving strategies in writing contexts, and using rhetorical analysis to understand and interpret writing. Evaluates how technical writing contributes to and disrupts social inequities.
This course introduces students to a range of postmodern and queer theories of gender construction/sexuality as represented in literature, film, and a variety of other cultural texts. The course will begin with the history of heterosexism and question modern society’s treatment of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer people. This course welcomes everyone, whatever their identity.
In depth study of a particular topic in English Studies. It involves readings, discussion, research, and intensive writing.
These courses engage students in an in-depth study of a sub-discipline of the field. The topic of the course will vary based on student interest and faculty expertise. The course may be facilitated as a seminar with students participating in the knowledge development of their peers. Students can expect to conduct a semester-long academic or participatory research project. It is recommended students complete ENGL 1010 prior to taking this course.
Source: Salt Lake Community College's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 61
