|
|
Course Criteria
Add courses to your favorites to save, share, and find your best transfer school.
-
3.00 Credits
3 credits This course is a survey of European and American dramatic literature from 1879 to the present, encompassing such theatrical and literary movements as Realism, Expressionism, and Absurdism. Although the course includes some attention to production values (staging, performance, etc.), the emphasis is primarily on dramatic works as literary texts. Both primary and secondary texts will be assigned so that students become familiar with important works of criticism as well as the plays themselves. Readings include works by Ibsen, Chekhov, O'Neill, Brecht, Williams, Beckett, Hansberry, and Miller. Prerequisite: ENG102 or permission of instructor/division dean. Fall.
-
3.00 Credits
3 credits Queer: once a derogatory word used against gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered people has been reclaimed by social activists, writers, artists, educators, and scholars to describe all non-normative sexualities and identities, all that is considered by the dominant paradigms to be alien, strange, transgressive, odd in short, queer. This course will explore queer themes in American dramatic literature from mid-twentieth century to the present. Emphasis will be on how images of gays, lesbians, and other sexual minorities have changed over the past half-century beginning with plays that precede the gay liberation movement, continuing with work from the early years of the AIDS pandemic, and ending in the present day. Authors studied may include Lillian Hellman, Tennessee Williams, Mort Crowley, Jonathan Larson, David Henry Hwang, and Tony Kushner. Prerequisite: ENG102 or permission of instructor/dean. This course may be used by LAT students as a substitute for Modern Drama. Fall and spring.
-
3.00 Credits
3 credits This course is an introduction to writing fiction, poetry, and drama. Students will experiment with various literary genres, learn to give and receive feedback in a workshop setting, and have the opportunity to read published authors. While students will be encouraged to write in all three genres, particular attention will be placed on the art of fiction with lectures and workshops that introduce students to such strategies as point of view, dialogue, plot, setting, and characterization. Prerequisite: ENG101. Fall.
-
3.00 Credits
3 credits This course is an introduction to writing fiction, poetry, and drama. Students will experiment with various literary genres, learn to give and receive feedback in a workshop setting, and have the opportunity to read published authors. While students will be encouraged to write in all three genres, particular attention will be placed on drama and poetry with lectures and workshops that introduce students to various literary forms such as free verse and formal verse for poetry and realistic and experimental theater for drama. Prerequisite: ENG101. Spring.
-
3.00 Credits
3 credits This course addresses the basic skills of journalism: observing, researching, reporting, interviewing, thinking, and writing with precision, clarity, and ethics. Assignments range from basic reporting (obituaries, fires, accidents, crime), local "beat" coverage (government, schools, and courts), and more in-depth reporting through profiles, interviews, and feature stories. Prerequisite: ENG101 or permission of instructor/division dean. Fall and spring.
-
3.00 Credits
3 credits Continuation of ENG241 Journalism I: News Reporting and Writing, this course is designed to further students' mastery of such journalistic techniques as idea development, news gathering, newsroom operation, editing and layout. Emphasis will also be placed on writing for other sources (online publications and non-profit newsletters), investigative reporting, and in-depth discussions of ethics and media law. Prerequisite: ENG241 or permission of instructor/division dean. Fall and spring.
-
3.00 Credits
3 credits Through selected reading in film and literary theory and the screening of high quality films, the class examines and develops a greater awareness of basic film techniques, practices, and aesthetics. Emphasis is placed upon the relationship between film and literature (i.e., narrative structure, figurative language, problems of adaptation, criticism, genre) and film as a unique twentieth-century art form that incorporates a number of other media and arts. Prerequisite: ENG102 or permission of instructor/division dean. Fall.
-
3.00 Credits
3 credits This course is a study of representative literary masterpieces of Eastern and Western Civilization for moral, philosophical, social and psychological insights into the nature of modern man. Readings are taken from such sources as Aristotle, Greek drama, Plato, Milton, Chaucer, Machiavelli, Dante, and Shakespeare. The course complements courses in western civilization, art, and music history. Prerequisite: ENG102 or permission of instructor/division dean. Fall.
-
3.00 Credits
3 credits This course is a continuation of ENG259 Literary Masterpieces I, with selections from Renaissance to contemporary culture, this course emphasizes western heroes and anti-heroes from the works of such authors as Voltaire, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Flaubert, Camus, Pope, and Mallarme. The course complements courses in western civilization, art, and music history. Prerequisite: ENG102 or permission of instructor/division dean. Spring.
-
3.00 Credits
3 credits This course traces the development of the short story as a distinct literary genre since its origins in the early 19th century to the present. Emphasis is on close reading and analysis of texts by international writers. The course covers the major literary movements of the 19th and 20th centuries: Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism, Modernism, and Postmodernism. Readings include stories by Poe, de Maupassantt, Chopin, Hemingway, Kafka, Joyce, O'Connor, and Carver. Prerequisite: ENG102 or permission of instructor/division dean. Spring.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|