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ENG-101
College English
This course focuses on the personal and expository components of rhetoric. Emphasis is given to writing processes and logic through constant practice in sentence combining and through organizing and styling
paragraphs and themes. Peer review of student writing is included.
3.00
ENG-102
Introduction to Literature
Students explore literary genres from selected world masterpieces with emphasis on style and philosophic import
and write themes of critical analysis.
3.00
ENG-103
Play Production
This course emphasizes the fundamentals of play production- script selection, casting, blocking, lighting, and
publicity. It culiminates in the production of a play.
3.00
ENG-105
Grammar Review
This class reviews the basics of traditional grammar- classes of words and sentences, inflections and functions of
English, syntactical relationships and usage- and examines alternative grammar systems.
3.00
ENG-200
Public Speaking
This course in public speaking builds students ' informative, argumentative, and persuasive speaking skills, as well
as their listening and analysis skills
3.00
ENG-2001
Arts and Ideas
This is an introductory course designed to give the student an appreciation of the literary and fine arts. The course examines ideas rooted in justice, philosophy, spirituality, politics, science, education, art, and psychology through literature that spans the evolution of those ideas. The course requires both analytical and creative responses to these ideas so that students can express their understanding of the complex relationship among
thought, writing, art and society.
3.00
ENG-201
British Literature I
Students in this course read and discuss selected major figures in English literature from the Anglo-Saxon Period
through the eighteenth century.
3.00
ENG-202
British Literature II
Students read and discuss major figures in English literature from the Romantic Period to the present.
3.00
ENG-203
Introduction to Poetry
Students read, discuss, and write about traditional and modern poems, while learning the technical elments of poetry and refine their critical thinking and writing skills by analyzing and interpreting poems.
3.00
ENG-210
Introduction to the Theater
This course surveys imporant historical periods of theater from Greece to the present day through examination of representative dramas from each period
3.00
ENG-212
Women Authors
This course explores and surveys the writing of women authors
3.00
ENG-215
Technical Writing
This course reviews the art of writing as a process that is adaptable to all professions and crafts
3.00
ENG-216
American Literature I
This course concentrates on major figures in America ' s literature from the Colonial Period through the Age of Transcendentalism.
3.00
ENG-217
American Literature II
Beginning with the nineteenth century, American Literature II surveys major figures from Realism and Naturalism through Modernism and Postmodernism
3.00
ENG-218
Multicultural Literature
Through reading the literature of a variety of ethnic and cultural groups, this course provides a historical survey or thematic exploration of multicultural questions and ideas
3.00
ENG-230
History of the English Language
This course surveys origins of the development of the English language from the Proto-Indo- Europeans of Central Europe through the development of the Danish, Saxon and Germanic tribes to the present-day status of the English language.
3.00
ENG-240
History of Rhetoric
This course explores classical texts, as well as their influence on contemporary principles and philosophical perspectives and the production of written, oral, visual, and digital texts today. Students will discuss important developments in the history of rhetoric and use rhetorical theory to consider issues related to oral, written, and visual discourse.
3.00
ENG-272
Literature of War
This course explores how political ideas have been expressed through a variety of literary forms from the Renaissance to the present day. Students analyze the historical context that underlay prominent works of political writing and the choices made by authors in composing them.
3.00
ENG-286
Literature of Medicine
This series of courses treats popular themes as they appear in literature and the media.
3.00
ENG-288
Film as Art
This series of courses treats popular themes as they appear in literature and the media.
3.00
ENG-290
The Short Story
This course analyzes the short story genre and its development in world literature.
3.00