English (ENGL)
ENGL 1110G Composition I 4 Credits (4)
In this course, students will read, write, and think about a variety of issues and texts. They will develop reading and writing skills that will help with the writing required in their fields of study and other personal and professional contexts. Students will learn to analyze rhetorical situations in terms of audience, contexts, purpose, mediums, and technologies and apply this knowledge to their reading and writing. They will also gain an understanding of how writing and other modes of communication work together for rhetorical purposes. Students will learn to analyze the rhetorical context of any writing task and compose with purpose, audience, and genre in mind. Students will reflect on their own writing processes, learn to workshop drafts with other writers, and practice techniques for writing, revising, and editing.
Prerequisite(s): ACT standard score in English of 16 or higher, or an Accuplacer score 250 or higher, or an SAT score of 430-579 or higher or CCDE 110N with C or higher
ENGL 1110H Composition I Honors 4 Credits (4)
In this course, students will read, write, and think about a variety of issues and texts. They will develop reading and writing skills that will help with the writing required in their fields of study and other personal and professional contexts. Students will learn to analyze rhetorical situations in terms of audience, contexts, purpose, mediums, and technologies and apply this knowledge to their reading and writing. They will also gain an understanding of how writing and other modes of communication work together for rhetorical purposes. Students will learn to analyze the rhetorical context of any writing task and compose with purpose, audience, and genre in mind. Students will reflect on their own writing processes, learn to workshop drafts with other writers, and practice techniques for writing, revising, and editing. Individualized assignments and independent study.
Prerequisite(s): ACT standard English score of 25 or higher, or an SAT score of 550 or higher
ENGL 1120 Composition II 2 Credits (2)
In this course, students will explore argument in multiple genres. Research and writing practices emphasize summary, analysis, evaluation, and integration of secondary sources. Students will analyze rhetorical situations in terms of audience, contexts, purpose, mediums, and technologies and apply this knowledge to their reading, writing, and research. Students will sharpen their understanding of how writing and other modes of communication work together for rhetorical purposes. The emphasis of this course will be on research methods.
Prerequisite(s): successful completion of ENGL 1110G or ENGL 1110H
Learning Outcomes
- Analyze the rhetorical situation for purpose, main ideas, support, audience, and organizational strategies in a variety of genres.
- Employ writing processes such as planning, organizing, composing, and revising.
- Use a variety of research methods to gather appropriate, credible information.
- Evaluate sources, claims, and evidence for their relevance, credibility, and purpose.
- Quote, paraphrase, and summarize sources ethically, citing and documenting them appropriately.
- Integrate information from sources to effectively support claims as well as other purposes (to provide background information, evidence/examples, illustrate an alternative view, etc.).
- Use an appropriate voice (including syntax and word choice).
ENGL 1410G Introduction to Literature 3 Credits (3)
In this course, students will examine a variety of literary genres, including fiction, poetry, and drama. Students will identify common literary elements in each genre, understanding how specific elements influence meaning.
ENGL 2130G Advanced Composition 3 Credits (3)
This course is for students who are striving for fluency, maturity, clarity and significance in their writing. It is an intermediate writing course that builds on and refines writing skills acquired in previous courses. It focuses on non-fiction writing for the professions, business, science, technical fields, academe and/or popular press. Short works of master writers are studied for ideas, style and structure.
ENGL 2210G Professional & Technical Communication 3 Credits (3)
Professional and Technical Communication will introduce students to the different types of documents and correspondence that they will create in their professional careers. This course emphasizes the importance of audience, document design, and the use of technology in designing, developing, and delivering documents. This course will provide students with experience in professional correspondence and communicating technical information to a non-technical audience.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C- or better in ENGL 1110G or ENGL 1110H
ENGL 2210H Professional and Technical Communication Honors 3 Credits (3)
Professional and Technical Communication writing for Honors students will introduce students to the different types of documents and correspondence that they will create in their professional careers. This course emphasizes the importance of audience, document design, and the use of technology in designing, developing, and delivering documents. This course will provide students with experience in professional correspondence and communicating technical information to a non-technical audience. 3.5 GPA is also required.
Prerequisite(s): grade of C- or better in ENGL 1110G or the equivalent; approval of the honors college
ENGL 2215G Advanced Technical and Professional Communication 3 Credits (3)
Theory and practice of writing in technical and professional fields, individualized to each student's field. Emphasizes efficient writing processes and effective written products. Repeatable: up to 3 credits.
ENGL 2221G Writing in the Humanities and Social Science 3 Credits (3)
Theory and practice of writing in technical and professional fields, individualized to each student's field. Emphasizes efficient writing processes and effective written products. Repeatable: up to 3 credits.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C- or better in ENGL 1110G or ENGL 1110H
ENGL 2280 History of Argument 3 Credits (3)
Investigates the major figures and movements in rhetoric from the classical period to modern rhetorical theory, examining relations between rhetorical teaching and practice, culture, epistemology, and ideology.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1110G, or ENGL 1110GH
Learning Outcomes
- Understand how rhetoric, argument, and persuasion work. Become familiar with the key terms and various contexts in which rhetoric, argument, and persuasion function and the contingencies that influence their use and effectiveness;
- be familiar with the broad history and major figures of western rhetoric;
- apply a number of approaches used to analyze and construct/deconstruct rhetorical arguments, including (but not limited to) Aristotelian appeals and commonplaces, stasis theory, toulmin analysis, pentadic/dramatistic analysis, fallacy analysis, and Rogerian analysis;
- complete an analysis as well as design and present a project regarding a contemporary issue or concern about which you feel deep passion and commitment; and
- Improve general critical thinking and communication skills, both oral and written.
ENGL 2310G Introduction to Creative Writing 3 Credits (3)
Theory and practice of writing in technical and professional fields, individualized to each student's field. Emphasizes efficient writing processes and effective written products. Repeatable: up to 3 credits.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1110G or ENGL 1110H
ENGL 2381 Script Development and Storyboarding 3 Credits (3)
Examines effective writing principles for creating storyboards that communicate the overall picture of a project, timing, scene complexity, emotion and resource requirements.Crosslist: FDMA 2381.
Learning Outcomes
- develop a story idea into a complete storyboard
- describe and visualize the creative aspects of a media project from conception to completion
- write a scene in the professional script format
- deliver a professional verbal and visual presentation of a story idea to an audience
- the ability to conceive, illustrate and plan a visual project
- proficiency in oral, written, and visual communication via storyboarding, script writing and verbal presentations
ENGL 2382 Narrative: Principles of Story Across the Media 3 Credits (3)
Examines the various strategies of written and visual storytelling, narrative structure and its principal components (plot, theme, character, imagery, symbolism, point of view) with an attempt to connect them to elements of contemporary forms of media expression, including screenwriting, playwriting, writing for documentaries and animation, etc.Crosslist: FDMA 2382
Learning Outcomes
- Identify use the building blocks of storytelling: plot, theme, character, imagery,
- Symbolism and point of view
- Develop these building blocks into a cohesive narrative within a written document
- Effectively communicate in different written formats
- Create design documents for varied genres of media: narrative short, documentary,
- Animation, commercial/industrial video, computer game
- Describe how a written narrative can be translated into a visual medium. Course competencies
- Demonstrate the ability to identify and use the building blocks of storytelling: Plot, theme, character, imagery, symbolism and point of view
- Demonstrate how these building blocks work together to create a cohesive narrative within a written document
- Demonstrate competency in effective written communication
- Apply the elements of storytelling in creating design documents for varied formats of media: narrative short, documentary, animation, commercial/industrial video, computer game
- Demonstrate the understanding of how a written narrative can be translated into a visual medium.
ENGL 2520G Film as Literature 3 Credits (3)
The purpose of this course is to teach students how to analyze film as a visual text. Students will learn to analyze films, film techniques, eras, and genres. Students will also identify significant trends and developments in film-making, examining the ways in which film reflects and creates cultural trends and values. (3+3P)
ENGL 2521 The Bible as Literature 3 Credits (3)
Develops informed readings of Hebrew and Christian scriptures. Emphasizes understanding Biblical literary forms, techniques, themes; historical, cultural contexts for interpretation; authorship, composition, audience for individual books; development of Biblical canon.
Learning Outcomes
- Develop and articulate historically informed and textually supported arguments regarding the form and meaning of biblical texts
- Express arguments and explication in clear, organized,
- Understand the Jewish and Christian scriptures as cultural artifacts, using some fundamental techniques of literary analysis and interpretation, especially: thematic interpretation, stylistic analysis, narrative analysis, poetics, and the rhetorical analysis of figurative language.
- Use socio-historically informed interpretive methods focused on these fundamental contextual questions : 1) who probably wrote and edited these texts, 2) why and how they most likely did so, 3) how their earliest audiences probably responded to them, and 4) why and how they were later combined to form the canonical Jewish and Christian bibles read today.
- Know in detail substantial selections of representative, influential, and historically informative biblical texts
- Distinguish literary critical and historical analysis of the Bible from those based on faith, tradition, authority, and theology
- Recognize, understand, and analyze the forms, genres, and techniques used by biblical authors
- Become familiar with and be able to use essential knowledge of the historical, cultural, and geographical contexts of Biblical writing
- Learn how evaluate texts as historical documents, as well as how doing so relates to and differs from literary critical analysis and interpretation 1
- Become familiar with common and influential scholarly, critical, and aesthetic ways of reading Biblical texts from a contemporary perspective 1
- Understand the cultural influence of the Bible and its relevance for other areas of scholarly and artistic work
ENGL 2610 American Literature I 3 Credits (3)
This course surveys American literature from the colonial period to the mid-nineteenth century. This course provides students with the contexts and documents necessary to understand the origins of American Literature and the aesthetic, cultural, and ideological debates central to early American culture.
Learning Outcomes
- Recognize the traditions of American literature and their connection to issues of culture, race, class, and gender.
- Demonstrate familiarity with a variety of major works by American authors.
- Explore the various influences and sources of American literature.
- Apply effective analytic and interpretive strategies to American literary works using academic conventions of citation and style.
ENGL 2620 American Literature II 3 Credits (3)
This course surveys American literature from the mid-nineteenth century to the contemporary period. This course provides students with the contexts and documents necessary to understand American Literature and the aesthetic, cultural, and ideological debates central to American culture.
Learning Outcomes
- Recognize the traditions of American literature and their connection to issues of culture, race, class, and gender.
- Demonstrate familiarity with a variety of major works by American authors.
- Explore the various influences and sources of American literature.
- Apply effective analytic and interpretive strategies to American literary works using academic conventions of citation and style.
ENGL 2630 British Literature I 3 Credits (3)
This course offers a study of British literature from its origins in Old English to the 18th century. This survey covers specific literary works—essays, short stories, novels, poems, and plays—as well as the social, cultural, and intellectual currents that influenced the literature.
Learning Outcomes
- Read and discuss representative works of British writers from its origins in Old English to the 18th century to understand cultural and historical movements which influenced those writers and their works.
- Identify the characteristics of various British literary genres, such as the essay, novel, short story, poetry, and dramatic literature.
- Apply effective analytic and interpretive strategies to British literary works using academic conventions of citation and style.
ENGL 2640 British Literature II 3 Credits (3)
This course offers a study of British literature from the 18th century to the present. This survey covers specific literary works—short stories, novels, poems, and plays—as well as the social, cultural, and intellectual currents that influenced the literature.
Learning Outcomes
- Read and discuss representative works of British writers from the 18th century to the present to understand cultural and historical movements, which influenced those writers, and their works.
- Identify the characteristics of various British literary genres, such as the essay, novel, short story, poetry, and dramatic literature.
- Apply effective analytic and interpretive strategies to British literary works using academic conventions of citation and style.
ENGL 2650G World Literature I 3 Credits (3)
In this course, students will read representative world masterpieces from ancient, medieval and Renaissance literature. Students will broaden their understanding of literature and their knowledge of other cultures through exploration of how literature represents individuals, ideas and customs of the world cultures. The course focuses strongly on examining the ways literature and culture intersect and define each other.
ENGL 2675 Transatlantic Literatures 3 Credits (3)
This course tracks the production, circulation, and reception of literary works in transatlantic contexts over at least 150 years. Students examine a variety of documents to map transformations in form, genre, and medium across historical and geographic contexts. Students consider how colonization, exile, displacement, and migration have track the production, circulation, and reception of literary works in transatlantic contexts over at least 150 years reinforced or contested national literary traditions.
Learning Outcomes
- Track the production, circulation, and reception of literary works in transatlantic contexts over at least 150 years
- Identify and analyze a variety of documents to map transformations in form, genre, and medium across historical and geographic contexts
- Explain how colonization, exile, displacement, and migration have reinforced or contested national literary traditions.
ENGL 2996 Topics in English 1-3 Credits
Emphasis on a literary and/or writing subject chosen for the semester. Repeatable: for a unlimited credit under different subtitles.