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  • 3.00 Credits

    This introductory course develops students' ability to deliver and evaluate public speeches of both prepared and impromptu nature. Students explore connections between the written and spoken word. The significance of nonverbal language and listening skills is also emphasized. Prerequisites: Credit Hours:3 CR. HR.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Description: This course teaches techniques for effective oral and written communication. In a workshop environment that features continual instructor and peer evaluation, students develop a process approach to writing and speaking. Students will write in a variety of genres and will reinforce rhetorical strategies pertaining to audience awareness while practicing oral delivery skills. A grade of C or better is required to pass the course. Prerequisites: Credit Hours: 3 CR.HR.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Description: This course teaches techniques for effective oral and written communication. In a workshop environment that features continual instructor and peer evaluation, students develop a process approach to writing and speaking. Logical argumentation, academic conventions, and research-related skills are the primary focus. Public speeches are based on written assignments that incorporate various source materials. As students explore connections between the written and spoken word, the significance of nonverbal language and listening skills are emphasized. A grade of C or better is required to pass the course. Prerequisites: EH123 Credit Hours: 3 CR.HR.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Description: This course, building upon EH 111, introduces students to the study of literature and the fundamental of literary research. Students explore fiction, poetry, and drama from both the western and non-western worlds. The creative process is explored through reading, discussion, research and writing. Additionally, the key themes of power, identity, justice and adaptation and explored in relation literature. Prerequisites: (EH111 OR EH123) AND EH124 Credit Hours: 3 CR.HR.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Description: The course examines written and oral forms of business communication, from memos and letters to research proposals and reports. Flexibility in addressing diverse audiences and human resource issues is a focus. The construction of resumes, cover letters, job interviews and formal presentations is also emphasized. Prerequisites: EH200 Credit Hours: 3 CR.HR.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Description: This course provides a critical exploration into the sound and sense of verse in English, from is traditional forms (e.g. the sonnet, villanelle and sestina) to more recent styles (e.g. free verse, experimental and avant grade poetry). Special attention to the devices of meter, rhyme, rhetoric and wordplay will enhance students' understanding of the complementary relationship between poetic content (what a poem says) and form (how is is said). Prerequisites: EH200 Credit Hours: 3 CR.HR.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Description: This course introduces students to the narrative methods and storytelling strategies that define short fiction. Readings include short stories by traditional and contemporary writers from diverse national and cultural backgrounds. Attention will be given to individual stories and their function in the broader context of entire collections of short fiction. Prerequisites: EH200 Credit Hours: 3 CR.HR.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Description: This course examines dramatic writing and performance as a vehicle of cultural communication from the ancient world to the present day. Topics studied include forms and definitions of drama, history of play production, staging and criticism. Prerequisites: EH200 Credit Hours: 3 CR.HR.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Description: This course provides a study of the novel, including its aesthetic development, critical reception, and social function, from its origins in the eighteenth-century to its contemporary practitioners. Specific topics and texts may vary according to instructor and student preference and may include Bradford, Bradstreet, Edwards, Hawthorne, Emerson, Melville, Thoreau and Douglas. Prerequisites: EH200 Credit Hours: 3 CR.HR.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Description: This course presents a survey of American writing from the Colonial period to the Civil War with focus on the intellectual movements and literary output of Puritanism, Native American literature, Romanticism, the Transcendentalists and slavery narratives. Specific topics and texts may vary according to instructor and student preference and may include such writers as Bradford, Bradstreet, Edwards, Hawthorne, Emerson, Melville, Thoreau and Douglas. Prerequisites: EH200 Credit Hours: 3 CR.HR.
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