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3.00 Credits
FALL In this course students will develop increased proficiency in critical reading skills including comprehension, strategies for retention, critical thinking, notetaking, outlining and interpreting material from different disciplines. This course is required for students with ACT Reading sub-scores of 17 or less. This course does not meet any requirements for graduation.
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4.00 Credits
4 cr. Emphasis on developing thinking and writing skills. The course is based on principles of contemporary writing pedagogy, including prewriting activities,writing process, focus on audience and purpose, writing reflections, peer evaluation, drafting, group writing and instructor conferencing. Early assignments depend on personal experience and then sequence to referential and argumentative writing. Includes basic documentation and bibliographic instruction.
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4.00 Credits
4 cr. Introduces the student to the foundations of literary study. In addition to reading a variety of texts from world literature students will try out the role of literary critic, applying at least two critical frameworks to texts. Students will experience ways in which different critical lenses may stimulate,enrich,change and challenge their understanding of a text. Students will also try out the roles of both poet and storyteller to appreciate the ways literary genres shape and limit expression.
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4.00 Credits
4 cr. Myth as society'sway of expressing itself is approached here through narrative frames and choices and interpretation of stories from primary sources. Stories are taken fromthe ancient Mediterranean, South and East Asia, early America andmodern Africa. Study will reach to include myths selected from China, India, Islam, Japan, Africa and/or the early Americas.
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4.00 Credits
4 cr. Surveys of prose and poetry in the English language by women of the 1300s to the present. Readings include three novels and several plays.Women's issues are discussed as they arise in the literature.
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4.00 Credits
4 cr. Cultural revolution of the 20th century narrated by the men andwomenwho created and then experienced it: Africa's Achebe and Soyinka, England's Woolf and Lawrence, Ireland's Yeats, Joyce and Beckett, India's Desai, the Americas' Silko, Marquez, Borges and Faulkner, Russia's Akhmatova and Solzhenitsyn, Germany's Mann and Czechoslovakia's Kafka.
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3.00 Credits
FALL and SPRING This course emphasizes the fundamentals of effective writing in the context of the elements of rhetoric: writer, audience, and purpose. Students write narrative, informative, and persuasive compositions and a documented research paper.
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3.00 Credits
FALL and SPRING Continued instruction and practice in writing and the writing process are the focal points of this course, with emphasis on critical analysis of literary genres. Prerequisite: ENG 131 or ENG 153H
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
FALL Foundations for the critical analysis of differing theories of knowledge will be examined. The process of argument analysis will be introduced and practiced. Students will be encouraged to think more in terms of identifying and generating questions than in absorbing facts. They will learn to identify conclusions and reasons given in support of those conclusions. Responses to various readings will be used as a way of practicing the skills students are developing. The semester project will be a documented research paper on a major thinker or writer. May substitute for ENG 131 or a humanities elective.
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3.00 Credits
Spring An evaluation of the Christian's literary heritage. This seminar course focuses on the ways that Christian writers have used literature to express their faith. Class discussion will center on a critical analysis of the text, the authors' use of various literary techniques in expressing their worldview, and the structure of specific arguments to answer cultural concerns. May substitute for ENG 132 or a humanities elective.
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