| ENGL 0099 Developmental English |
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ENGL 0099 prepares the student to enter the credit English sequence. The course includes assignments in the language-based processes of reading, writing, and discussion, as well as critical thinking and problem solving. It stresses the rules and conventions of standard written English and provides extensive practice in writing a variety of types of compositions. Exit Requirements: C average on course work, passing grade on Departmental Essay Competency Examination and a satisfactory score of 60 or higher on the COMPASS Writing Skills Test. Placement: A score of 59 or below on the COMPASS Writing Skills Test.
Offered: All semesters. |
| ENGL 1101 English Composition I |
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ENGL 1101 is a composition course focusing on skills required for effective writing in a variety of contexts, with emphasis on exposition, analysis, and argumentation, and also including introductory use of a variety of research skills. This course emphasizes the development of thought and expression through personal, informative, and persuasive essays. The course is concerned largely with the composing process involving substantial reading and analysis of ideas in preparation for written assignments. ENGL 1101 promotes the development of reading, speaking, listening, and thinking. In addition, the course includes study of grammar and punctuation as needed. Exit requirements include a minimum of a “C” average on course work and completion of the Mock Regents’ Test. Prerequisites: Satisfactory scores on the English and Reading placement examinations or completion of ENGL 0099 and READ 0099 with grades of "C" or better.
Offered: All semesters. |
| ENGL 1102 English Composition II |
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ENGL 1102 is a composition course that develops writing skills beyond the levels of proficiency required by ENGL 1101, that emphasizes interpretation and evaluation, and that incorporates a variety of more advanced research methods. This course includes the development of thought and expression through critical analysis. ENGL1102 also emphasizes style, content, and organization of essays. This course includes the planning and writing of analytical essays and continues the development of reading, speaking, listening, and critical thinking. Course activities involve reading and discussion of literary genres, review as needed of punctuation and grammar, and library research. Exit requirements include a minimum of a “C” average on course work and completion of a documented research paper. Prerequisites: Satisfactory scores on the English placement examination or completion of ENGL 1101 with a grade of "C" or better.
Offered: All semesters. |
| ENGL 2111 World Literature I |
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ENGL 2111 is a study of major works of world literature from the beginnings ca. 1500 B.C.E. to ca. 1650 C.E. Cultures represented in this period range from Akkadian, Egyptian, Hebrew, and Greek to Chinese, Roman, Indian, Islamic, Western Medieval and Renaissance, Japanese, African, and Native American. This immense period includes such works and authors as Gilgamesh, The Odyssey, Confucius, Bhagavad-Gita, Vergil, Kalidasa, T'ao Ch'ien, Koran, Abolqasem Ferdowsi, Dante, Chaucer, Murasaki Shikibu, Shakespeare, Sei Shonagon, Montaigne, Cervantes, and the Popol Vuh. Prerequisite: ENGL 1102 with a grade of "C" or better.
Offered: On demand. |
| ENGL 2112 World Literature II |
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| ENGL 2112 is a study of major works of world literature from ca. 1650 to the present. Cultures represented in this period range from Chinese, Indian, and Japanese to Western European, Russian, Native American, African, Islamic, Latin American, Hebrew, and Caribbean. Authors include Voltaire, Cao Xuequin, Matsuo Basho, Goethe, Whitman, Dostoyevsky, R. Tagore, Baudelaire, Kawabata Yasunari, L. Senghor, Chinua Ahebe, D. Walcott, Borges, Dickinson, and Solzhenitsyn. Prerequisite: ENGL 1102 with a grade of "C" or better.
Offered: On demand. |
| ENGL 2122 British Literature II |
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ENGL 2122 is a study of British Literature from the late eighteenth century to the present, encompassing the Romantic, Victorian, and Modern periods. Works studied include those of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Browning, Yeats, Lawrence, and Joyce. Prerequisite: ENGL 1102 with a grade of "C" or better.
Offered: On demand. |
| ENGL 2132 American Literature II |
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ENGL 2132 is a study of modern American literature from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. Prose authors of this period include Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, Henry James, Stephen Crane, Theodore Dreiser, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, and Ralph Ellison. Poets of this period include Robert Frost, T.S. Eliot, and Gwendolyn Brooks. Prerequisite: ENGL 1102 with a grade of "C" or better.
Offered: On demand. |
| ENGL 2132 HONORS American Literature II HONORS |
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ENGL 2132 is a study of modern American literature from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. Prose authors of this period include Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, Henry James, Stephen Crane, Theodore Dreiser, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, and Ralph Ellison. Poets of this period include Robert Frost, T.S. Eliot, and Gwendolyn Brooks. Prerequisite: ENGL 1102 with a grade of "C" or better.
Offered: On demand. |
| ENGL 2230 Professional & Technical Writing |
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| ENGL 2230 is an intermediate composition course that develops professional workplace communication skills. It emphasizes strategies, forms, and techniques of writing that aims to inform, persuade, or instruct people. The course provides hands-on experience in writing and presenting business and technical documents produced by a variety of methods. It focuses on strategies used in marketing communication, public relations, and human resources and also includes experience with group collaboration. Exit requirements: A minimum of a “C” average on course work.
Prerequisite: Completion of ENGL 1102 with a grade of "C" or better.
Offered: On demand. |
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