(ENG) English
Note: Initial selection of an English composition course is determined by results of college skills placement testing. Applicability of credits for courses below the 100 level toward degree requirements is limited. Consult an academic advisor.
 CommunicationENG 101 - English Composition I (3 credits) Prerequisite: placement test or minimum C grade in ENG 024 and ENG 034 College-level composition course designed to assist students in writing 750- to 1500-word essays on topics in various academic disciplines. Focuses on development and support of ideas, essay structure, critical thinking, analysis of readings, and other aspects of writing. Students are introduced to research techniques and documentation. 3 lecture hours course outline |
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Communication ENG 102 - English Composition II (3 credits) Prerequisite: ENG 101 with a minimum C grade Second-level composition course designed to assist students in writing 1500- to 3000-word essays, including a formally documented research paper. Readings introduce students to literature and the analysis of concepts, language, and formal elements. 3 lecture hours course outline |
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Communication ENG 112 - English Composition II with Speech (3 credits) Prerequisite: ENG 101 with a minimum C grade A variation on standard ENG 102, differing with its focus on the interpretation, analysis and creation of a broad spectrum of workplace documents rather than on literature. Construction of a lengthy, well-supported research paper and accompanying PowerPoint presentation is central. Speech component is fulfilled through multiple in-class presentations. 3 lecture hours course outline |
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Humanities ENG 201 - Introduction to Literature: Drama (3 credits) Prerequisite: minimum C grade in ENG 102 or divisional permission Examines the evolution of staged presentations from religious ritual to secular theater, covering works from the classical Greek period to the present day. Focuses on Elizabethan theater, Restoration comedy, 19th century realism, and contemporary theater. 3 lecture hours course outline |
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Humanities ENG 202 - Introduction to Literature: Novel (3 credits) Prerequisite: minimum C grade in ENG 102 or divisional permission Study of novels from various periods selected for their intrinsic value and as representative types of fiction. 3 lecture hours course outline |
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Humanities / Diversity and Global Perspective ENG 203 - World Literature I (3 credits) Prerequisite: minimum C grade in ENG 102 or divisional permission A survey of important literary works from cultures around the world dating from ancient times through the 17th century. 3 lecture hours course outline |
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Humanities / Diversity and Global Perspective ENG 204 - World Literature II (3 credits) Prerequisite: minimum C grade in ENG 102 or divisional permission A survey of important literary works from cultures around the world from the 17th century through the present day. 3 lecture hours course outline |
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Humanities ENG 205 - American Literature I (3 credits) Prerequisite: minimum C grade in ENG 102 or divisional permission Introduction to and selective study of authors representing the enduring traditions and styles of American literature from the Puritan period through the Civil War. 3 lecture hours course outline |
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Humanities ENG 206 - American Literature II (3 credits) Prerequisite: minimum C grade in ENG 102 or divisional permission Survey of American literature from 1865 to the present, including authors whose work represents the traditions and styles of American literature. Short stories, novels, poetry, and essays cover topics such as regionalism, realism, naturalism, modernism, and postmodernism. 3 lecture hours course outline |
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Humanities ENG 208 - Modern American Novel (3 credits) Prerequisite: minimum C grade in ENG 102 or divisional permission Traces the triumph of prose Realism over Naturalism and the recurrent forms and techniques of the contemporary novel in the American idiom. Emphasizes the novel as the dominant modern American literary art form, as a social document, and as a portrait of time and place. 3 lecture hours course outline |
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Humanities ENG 211 - Shakespeare (3 credits) Prerequisite: minimum C grade in ENG 102 or divisional permission A survey of Shakespeare's tragedies, comedies, and histories -- a body of work whose characters, themes, and language influence and permeate literature worldwide, and is essential to cultural literacy. 3 lecture hours course outline |
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Humanities ENG 212 - Introduction to Literature: Poetry (3 credits) Prerequisite: minimum C grade in ENG 102 or divisional permission Explores poetry as imagery, figurative language, allusion, tone, rhythm, meter, rhyme and stanza form. Students read major English and American poetry as well as verse from a variety of cultures to provide background for reading poems more incisively. 3 lecture hours course outline |
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Humanities / Diversity and Global Perspective ENG 213 - African American Literature (3 credits) Prerequisite: minimum C grade in ENG 102 or divisional permission A survey of literary works by writers of the African Diaspora produced in the Americas from the 18th century to the present. Proceeds chronologically, starting with African-born producers of the literature, oral and written, continuing with the folk tradition, moving through the slave narratives, the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Movement and ending with contemporary works and the immigrant experiences. 3 lecture hours course outline |
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Humanities / Diversity and Global Perspective ENG 214 - Literature of the East (3 credits) Prerequisite: minimum C grade in ENG 102 or divisional permission Introduction to representative works of Eastern literature from 2500 BCE including selections from the Pyramid Texts of Unas, The Confucian Analects, The Bhagavad Gita, The Tale of Genji, and the Qur'an. 3 lecture hours |
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Humanities ENG 216 - Literature Into Film (3 credits) Prerequisite: minimum C grade in ENG 102 or divisional permission Focuses on the marriage of two art forms -- literature and film -- and pays particular attention to how the medium affects the writer and the writer the medium. Examines selected novels, short stories, plays, essays and/or memoirs as original works and as each evolves into film. 3 lecture hours course outline |
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Humanities / Diversity and Global Perspective ENG 221 - Women in Literature (3 credits) Prerequisite: minimum C grade in ENG 102 or divisional permission A discussion-based course that explores literature by women writers. Texts cover a variety of authors and genres as well as themes, issues and theories concerning the production of gender in literary works. Further develops the literary analysis and academic writing skills acquired in ENG 102. 3 lecture hours course outline |
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Diversity and Global Perspective ENG 222 - Children's Literature (3 credits) Prerequisite: minimum C grade in ENG 102 or divisional permission Critical evaluation of the various genres of literature written for children. Examines ancient folk tales like Aesop's Fables, modern picture books such as those by Maurice Sendak, and classic fiction such as the masterpieces of Lewis Carroll and Mark Twain. 3 lecture hours course outline |
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Humanities ENG 227 - English Literature I (3 credits) Prerequisite: minimum C grade in ENG 102 or divisional permission Survey of representative English literature from the Middle English period through the Neoclassical period. Particular attention to the works of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Donne, Dryden and Pope. 3 lecture hours |
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Humanities ENG 228 - English Literature II (3 credits) Prerequisite: minimum C grade in ENG 102 or divisional permission Survey of representative English literature from the Romantic and Victorian periods up to the present. 3 lecture hours course outline |
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Diversity and Global Perspective ENG 232 - Post-Colonial Women Writers (3 credits) Prerequisite: minimum C grade in ENG 102 or divisional permission Examines works written in English by women of color in Asia, Africa, the Americas, and Australia. Explores contributions of the writer to the body of modern world literature -- poetry, fiction, drama -- along with aspects of the writers' politics and the social milieus that form their work. 3 lecture hours course outline |
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Diversity and Global Perspective ENG 234 - Caribbean Literature (3 credits) Prerequisite: minimum C grade in ENG 102 or divisional permission Surveys Caribbean literature, poetry, drama, fiction and essays from the 17th century to the present. Introduces historically significant texts as well as modern writers like Walcott, Cliff, Dandicott and Naipaul. Social and political contexts that influenced the texts are explored. 3 lecture hours course outline |
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Humanities ENG 238 - American History and Literature: Violence, Money, and the American Dream (3 credits) Prerequisite: ENG 102 with a minimum C grade or divisional permission An interdisciplinary examination of American literature and society with special emphasis on contemporary perspectives and the historical context in which texts were written. Focuses on American history and literature since 1865, covering such topics as gender, race, ethnicity and immigration, social class, the West, war, and popular culture. 3 lecture hours |
