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3.00 Credits
Pre-requisite: ENGL1101. Meets MnTC Goal Area 1. This course provides instruction in writing and designing professional and technical documents, including print and non-print correspondence, descriptions, instructions, reports, and proposals, along with promotional material. Analysis, critical thinking, and synthesis of sources will be covered, along with the development of presentation skills. Course work also includes a formally-documented, multi-source professional project.
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3.00 Credits
Meets MNTC Goal Area 6F. Prerequisite: ENGL1101. The creative writing course focuses on the writing of short fiction, poetry, and plays. It is a course designed to offer students practice in the composition of these three modes, with room for exploration the of each genre's sub-categories. Emphasis will be on writing original work and on learning the skills needed to write successful creative works within each genre. This course will emphasize helping students learn to develop their creative voice and incorporate study of published works to aid students in this goal. This course counts as a fine arts course; it places emphasis on the creation of fine arts as opposed to the formal, critical analysis of them. Course delivery will include a traditional class format as well as workshop settings, where students' work will be read, analyzed, and critiqued by others in the class. The course may include the following: presenting and submitting manuscripts, analyzing the motivation for writers, editing and criticism, techniques for reading work aloud, and analyzing masterpiece models. Evaluation of course competencies may be based on writing journals, portfolios, presentations, large and small group discussions, collaborative tasks, manuscripts (completed or works in progress), and/or public reading of students' works.
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3.00 Credits
Meets MNTC Goal Areas 6F and 7. Prerequisite: ENGL1101. This course focuses on the writing of personal memoir as well as an in-depth study of the literary genre of memoir: it may also include creative essay writing. It is a workshop designed to offer students practice in the composition of memoir and other narrative modes of writing, as well as a study of the memoir as literature. This course places emphasis on the creation of fine arts as well as the formal, critical analysis of them.
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3.00 Credits
Meets MNTC Goal Areas 2, 6 and 10. Prerequisite: ENGL1101. This course will focus on selected readings that will enable students to define 'environment.' Readings will include personal, expository, and argumentative essays and articles; technical reports; legislative and judicial actions; fiction and poetry which reflect the increasingly global focus of environmental concerns. Writing activities will allow students to explore informal writing, personal essays, argumentative papers, and research projects. Students will gain experience in reading critically and in writing logical, sound papers that deal with environmental issues.
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3.00 Credits
Meets MNTC Goal Areas 2, 6 and 7. Prerequisite: Completion of or concurrent enrollment in ENGL1101. This literature course will increase students' understanding of individual and group differences through a close study of American short stories. Issues of race, gender, class, tradition, and value will be the focus of the course as illuminated by the literature. The course will also cover the basic elements of short stories.
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3.00 Credits
Meets MnTC Goal Areas 2, 6 and 8. Pre-requisite: ENGL1101. This literature course will introduce students to the growing interdependence of the people of the world through a close study of drama. Studying drama written by various writers around the world will allow students to develop an understanding of and an appreciation for the human condition and culture. The course will also cover the basic elements and concepts of drama.
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3.00 Credits
Meets MNTC Goal Areas 2, 6 and 7. Prerequisite: Completion of or concurrent enrollment in ENGL1101. This literature course will involve students in a close reading of selected novels that focus on individual and group differences in both the U.S. and abroad. Attention will be paid to the traditions and values of the writers and as portrayed in the literature. Basic concepts and elements of the novel will also be studied.
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3.00 Credits
Meets MnTC Goal Areas 2, 6 and 9. Pre-requisite: ENGL1101. This literature course will focus on the ethical dimensions of political, social and personal life as conveyed in short prose. The basic elements and concepts of short prose will be studied.
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3.00 Credits
This course meets MnTC Goal Areas 6 and 9. Students will read fiction and non-fiction literary texts as a means for understanding issues related to health, illness, and the human condition. Through discussions, writings, and projects, students will analyze the readings in order to learn about the literary genres, explore the range of responses to the issues (including their own), and identify and reflect about ways people exercise their roles as responsible members of their communities and citizens of the world.
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3.00 Credits
Meets MNTC Goal Areas 2, 6 and 10. Prerequisite: ENGL1101. This course will focus on books and texts written by great nature writers. While special emphasis will be placed on those works that stress conservation and ecology, others will enable students to see the human struggle with the environment as protagonist. Material may also include travel writing, as well as the more recent directions toward urban nature and nontraditional/multicultural perspectives. Texts may include nonfiction, novels, poetry and plays. Students will gain experience in reading critically and writing logical, sound papers that deal with environmental issues and text analysis.
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