English

Courses

ENG-002: Transition English

Credits 3

This course provides an opportunity to customize foundational English content in specific areas and will include developing a growth mindset. Topics include developing the academic habits, learning strategies, social skills, and growth mindset necessary to be successful in college-level English. Upon completion, students should be able to build a stronger foundation for success in their gateway level English courses by obtaining skills through a variety of instructional strategies with emphasis placed on the most essential prerequisite knowledge.

ENG-011: Writing and Inquiry Support

Credits 2

This course is designed to support students in the development of skills necessary for success in ENG 111 by complementing, supporting, and reinforcing ENG 111 Student Learning Outcomes. Emphasis is placed on developing a growth mindset, expanding skills for use in active reading and writing processes, recognizing organizational relationships within texts from a variety of genres and formats, and employing appropriate technology when reading and composing texts. Upon completion, students should be able to apply active reading strategies to college-level texts and produce unified, well-developed writing using standard written English.

ENG-111: Writing and Inquiry

Credits 3

This course is designed to develop the ability to produce clear writing in a variety of genres and formats using a recursive process. Emphasis includes inquiry, analysis, effective use of rhetorical strategies, thesis development, audience awareness, and revision. Upon completion, students should be able to produce unified, coherent, well-developed essays using standard written English.

This course has been approved for transfer under the Comprehensive Articulation Agreement as a general education course in English Composition. This is a Universal General Education Transfer Component (UGETC) course. 

ENG-112: Writing and Research in the Disciplines

Credits 3

This course, the second in a series of two, introduces research techniques, documentation styles, and writing strategies. Emphasis is placed on analyzing information and ideas and incorporating research findings into documented writing and research projects. Upon completion, students should be able to evaluate and synthesize information from primary and secondary sources using documentation appropriate to various disciplines.

This course has been approved for transfer under the Comprehensive Articulation Agreement as a general education course in English Composition. This is a Universal General Education Transfer Component (UGETC) course. 

ENG-114: Professional Research & Reporting

Credits 3

This course, the second in a series of two, is designed to teach professional communication skills. Emphasis is placed on research, listening, critical reading and thinking, analysis, interpretation, and design used in oral and written presentations. Upon completion, students should be able to work individually and collaboratively to produce well-designed business and professional written and oral presentations.

This course has been approved to satisfy the Comprehensive Articulation Agreement general education requirement in English composition. 

ENG-125: Creative Writing I

Credits 3

This course is designed to provide students with the opportunity to practice the art of creative writing. Emphasis is placed on writing, fiction, poetry, and sketches. Upon completion, students should be able to craft and critique their own writing and critique the writing of others.

This course has been approved to satisfy the Comprehensive Articulation Agreement for transferability as a premajor and/or elective course requirement. 

ENG-231: American Literature I

Credits 3

This course covers selected works in American literature from its beginnings to 1865. Emphasis is placed on historical background, cultural context, and literary analysis of selected prose, poetry, and drama. Upon completion, students should be able to analyze and interpret literary works in their historical and cultural contexts.

This course has been approved to satisfy the Comprehensive Articulation Agreement for transferability as a general education course in Humanities/Fine Arts. This is a Universal General Education Transfer Component (UGETC) course. 

ENG-232: American Literature II

Credits 3

This course covers selected works in American literature from 1865 to the present. Emphasis is placed on historical background, cultural context, and literary analysis of selected prose, poetry, and drama. Upon completion, students should be able to analyze and interpret literary works in their historical and cultural contexts.

This course has been approved to satisfy the Comprehensive Articulation Agreement for transferability as a general education course in Humanities/Fine Arts. This is a Universal General Education Transfer Component (UGETC) course. 

ENG-241: British Literature I

Credits 3

This course covers selected works in British literature from its beginnings to the Romantic Period. Emphasis is placed on historical background, cultural context, and literary analysis of selected prose, poetry, and drama. Upon completion, students should be able to interpret, analyze, and respond to literary works in their historical and cultural contexts.

This course has been approved to satisfy the Comprehensive Articulation Agreement for transferability as a general education course in Humanities/Fine Arts. This is a Universal General Education Transfer Component (UGETC) course. 

ENG-242: British Literature II

Credits 3

This course covers selected works in British literature from the Romantic Period to the present. Emphasis is placed on historical background, cultural context, and literary analysis of selected prose, poetry, and drama. Upon completion, students should be able to interpret, analyze, and respond to literary works in their historical and cultural contexts.

This course has been approved to satisfy the Comprehensive Articulation Agreement for transferability as a general education course in Humanities/Fine Arts. This is a Universal General Education Transfer Component (UGETC) course. 

ENG-261: World Literature I

Credits 3

This course introduces selected works from the Pacific, Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas from their literary beginnings through the seventeenth century. Emphasis is placed on historical background, cultural context, and literary analysis of selected prose, poetry, and drama. Upon completion, students should be able to interpret, analyze, and respond to selected works.

This course has been approved to satisfy the Comprehensive Articulation Agreement general education requirement in humanities/fine arts. 

ENG-262: World Literature II

Credits 3

This course introduces selected works from the Pacific, Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas from the eighteenth century to the present. Emphasis is placed on historical background, cultural context, and literary analysis of selected prose, poetry, and drama. Upon completion, students should be able to interpret, analyze, and respond to selected works.

This course has been approved to satisfy the Comprehensive Articulation Agreement general education requirement in humanities/fine arts.

ENG-273: African-American Literature

Credits 3

This course provides a survey of the development of African-American literature from its beginnings to the present. Emphasis is placed on historical and cultural context, themes, literary traditions, and backgrounds of the authors. Upon completion, students should be able to interpret, analyze, and respond to selected texts.

This course has been approved for transfer under the CAA as a pre-major and/or elective course in Humanities/Fine Arts.