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3.00 Credits
3 credits (ENG-104) (80-104) Provides directed practice in writing and speaking skills needed in technical fields for specific audiences. Students create documentation for technical systems, including formal and informal reports, abstracts and reviews. Students will learn strategies for producing such reports successfully, including planning, analyzing, purpose and audience, gathering data, and developing revising techniques and oral presentations. Students will be encouraged to choose topics based on their major or intended career. Prerequisites: C or better in Writing: Introduction to Composition, OR C- or better in Introduction to College Reading or Writing, OR C- or better in Integrated Reading and Writing II, OR Composition, OR appropriate Placement Test score, OR permission of Department Chair.
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3 credits Explores the nature and variety of poetry. Poems from a wide range of periods, origins, and viewpoints provide material for the study of the concepts, which are a part of reading, appreciating and writing about poetry. Students study narrative, lyric, and dramatic poetry, as well as poetic elements such as diction, tone, images, figures of speech, symbols, rhythm, and meter. Prerequisite: C- or better in Literature and Composition OR permission of the Department Chair.
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3 credits (ENG-211) (81-251) Surveys major American writing, prose and poetry, from the early Colonial period to the Civil War period, providing a chronological history as well as a focus on the multicultural dimension of America's literature. Prerequisite: C- or better in Composition II.
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3 credits Surveys world literature from the ancients to 1650. The course emphasizes the connections between culture, history, and literary works, while exploring the diversity of human expression and response to the commonality of human experience. Prerequisite: C- or better in Composition II.
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3 credits (ENG-201) (80-291) Engages students in the study and writing of various types of creative writing, such as fiction (short stories, novels), poetry, plays, nonfiction articles and essays, television screen plays and radio scripts, with some focus on professional marketing. The class may explore the use of creative writing in publicity, advertising, newspapers, and electronic media. Students will study published works to show the variety of markets open to the freelance writer. Prerequisite: B or better in Composition.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits An introduction to major literary types, including poetry, short story, drama, and the novel. Readings may be organized around a central theme. Students develop a critical sense of literature through oral and written analysis. Prerequisite: C- or better in Composition.
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3 credits An introduction to major literary types, including poetry, short story, drama, and the novel. Readings may be organized around a central theme. Students develop a critical sense of literature through oral and written analysis. Prerequisite: C- or better in Composition.
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3 credits This is the first course in the ESL curriculum. This course integrates the study of grammar, reading, writing, and speaking. The primary focus is the study of level-appropriate grammar topics including the following: present tense and present progressive verbs, verb forms for "to be," common irregular verbs,yes/no and information questions, and common contractions. Students practice these structures in writing and speaking contexts. The secondary focus is on reading and listening to level-appropriate texts. Additionally, students learn functional vocabulary related to family, daily life and school. This course prepares students for ESL: Grammar II and ESL: Writing and Reading II. Note: Student must have limited proficiency in three of the four skill areas of English - speaking, reading, writing and listening.
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3 credits (ESL-111) (89-128) This is the second level of writing and reading in the ESL program. The reading component emphasizes recognition and use of high frequency vocabulary words. Additionally, students learn to differentiate between main ideas and details in readings of a beginning level of difficulty. The writing component focuses on developing basic writing skills. This includes writing simple, compound and complex sentences as well as basic paragraph development. Correct spelling, punctuation and capitalization are also included in this writing component. Prerequisite: C- or better in Integrated Skills I, OR appropriate placement test score, OR permission of Department Chair.
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3 credits (ESL-101) (89-126) This is the second or high beginning course in the ESL grammar series. The primary focus is the study of level-appropriate grammar topics including the following: simple and continuous verbs in the present, past and future; nouns and pronouns as subjects and objects; modifiers; prepositions; and common conjunctions. Students will also study common sentence structures for statements and questions. Students will identify and practice using these structures with the goals to improve clarity of expression in writing and comprehension in reading. A secondary focus is on using and understanding the new structures in speaking and for listening comprehension. Prerequisites: Integrated Skills I OR appropriate placement test score OR permission of the Department Chair.
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