ENG 123(3-0-3)
College Composition
This course provides a foundation in academic discourse by developing effective communication skills with an emphasis on expository writing. Students use electronic environments to write multiple essays, including a researched and documented paper; they also deliver an oral presentation.
PR: Exemption from placement testing as defined by the Academic Code or successful completion of CSS 123 and/or CSS 125
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ENG 124(3-0-3)
Introduction to Literature
This course encourages students to question and explore the ways in which literature, as an art form, expresses and reflects human endeavors. It introduces students to the examination of literary genres, devices, and critical theory. Students read and discuss fiction, drama, and poetry. Communication techniques studied in ENG 123 College Composition are strengthened and refined through written assignments. This is a writing-intensive course in which students will write a minimum of 15 evaluated pages. Credit will not be given for both HON 124 and ENG 124.
PR: ENG 123
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ENG 200(3-0-3)
Introduction to Creative Writing
Students will learn the essential principles, strategies, and methods of creative writing and will acquire a foundation in the skills necessary to master this art. The emphasis will be on the writing of short fiction, but opportunities will be provided to explore poetry, drama, screenwriting, the novel, and the essay. Students will also learn how to go about getting their work published.
PR: ENG 123
CR: ENG 124
ENG 205(3-0-3)
Writing Poetry
This course focuses on developing students' abilities to write, revise, and analyze poetry. It is primarily conducted as a workshop: students write and revise their own poetry, as well as give oral feedback and produce written critiques of their peers' poems. In addition, the course introduces studetns to a variety of poetic forms and asks them to write poetry in these forms. It also introduces them to theories of free verse and to studies of the poetic line and asks them to write their own free verse. The course also includes an oral component: students practice reading their own and others' poems to the class. Last, the class introduces students to opportunities for performing and publishing their poetry.
PR: ENG 123
ENG 211(3-0-3)
Technical and Professional Writing
This course applies the principles of effective writing to the specific forms of professional and technical writing. It emphasizes designing texts and oral presentations for professional audiences after analyzing the needs of those audiences.
PR: ENG 123
ENG 295
English Experimental Course
Description not available.
ENG 296
English Experimental
Description not available.
