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3.00 Credits
A survey of children's literature, including an introduction to the mythology and folklore of the world. Attention given to techniques of motivating children to enjoy stories. Required for all elementary education students and for English majors concentrating in elementary education. Will not satisfy area B-1 Literature requirement. Prerequisite: EN 101 or EN/CC 102, or EN 122 and EN 132 for English majors
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3.00 Credits
These low to high-intermediate courses are designed to help students improve their reading and writing skills to the level required for academic study. Students read articles, essays and short stories from a variety of textbooks, magazines, and Internet sources. Student writing focuses on ideas that are generated from these readings and from personal experiences, including those of servicelearning activities. Placement by the ESL program staff.
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3.00 Credits
The intermediate and advanced levels in English as a Second Language, these "university bridge"courses are designed to strengthen students' academic reading and writing skills as they begin academic study. Focus is on writing the well-developed essay with stress placed on the appropriate elements of grammar, syntax, vocabulary development, and strategies for reading college-level texts. Placement by the ESL program staff.
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3.00 Credits
Introduces the student to rhetorical strategies and techniques for clear and effective writing. Stresses the recursive nature of writing, encouraging stu- dents to think of writing as a means to generate thinking and enhance learning as well as to communicate. English Placement/Proficiency Exam required. Students must pass this course with a grade of C or better.
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3.00 Credits
From Beowulf to the Augustans, from Anglo-Saxon runes to Restoration comedy, this course features writings by Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare and Milton. Sophomore level, for English majors. Does not satisfy Humanities requirement in the core.
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3.00 Credits
From the Age of Reason to the Age of Anxiety. Course highlights romantic writers like Wordsworth and Keats, Victorians like Dickens and Arnold, modernists like Joyce and Woolf. Sophomore level, for English majors. Does not satisfy Humanities requirement in the core. Prerequisite: EN 121
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3.00 Credits
From Plymouth Rock to Gettysburg, puritanism, federalism and American Romanticism are examined. Bradford, Edwards, Franklin, Poe, Emerson, Hawthorne and Whitman. Sophomore level, for English majors. Does not satisfy Area B 1 literature requirement.
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3.00 Credits
Success and failure, triumph and tragedy. From the Gilded Age to the America of giant corporations and global supremacy. Writings of Twain, Dickinson, James, Hemingway, Morrison, Frost and Eliot are examined. Sophomore level, for English majors. Does not satisfy Area B 1 literature requirement. Prerequisite: EN 131
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3.00 Credits
A series of in-class private writing exercises aimed at self-discovery and tapping resources of creative energy. Class trips serve as the basis for descriptive journal writing exercises that stress description, narration, exposition and the editing process. Prerequisite: EN 110
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3.00 Credits
A series of courses designed to meet the multitude of writing needs demonstrated by students in a variety of majors. Course topics include writing poetry, short story, fiction and nonfiction, freelance writing, corporate writing, journalism, etc. Advanced-level courses are offered under EN 371-379. Prerequisite: EN 110
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