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Course Criteria
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Hours: 54 hours LEC Individualized instruction in ENGWR 51, ENGWR 102 or ENGWR 300. Students who enroll in the course should either have been assessed or have successfully completed the appropriate prior course. Immediate advancement from one course to the next is allowed upon completion of the prescribed work. Students receive three units of credit when they have completed all of the work for the respective course. EENGWR 102 students must take the department profi - ciency test. Units earned in Language and Composition ENGWR 300 will transfer to the UC or CSU systems. Students who, for legitimate cause, do not complete the course work within a semester may be, at the discretion of the instructor, assigned an "In-Progress"grade at the end of the semester, but must enroll again the following semester to complete the work.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ENGWR 300 with a grade of "C" or betterGeneral Education: AA/AS Area I; CSU Area C; IGETC Area 3B Course Transferable to UC/CSU Hours: 54 hours LEC Designed to introduce the are of poetry, this course includes analysis and appreciation of poetry as a type of literature, a thorough study of various kinds of poetry, and a brief survey of major poets and movements. It focuses on how to react as a reader and how to help give poetry meaning in the light of one's accumulated feelings, interests, and ideas.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ENGWR 300 with a grade of "C" or betterGeneral Education: AA/AS Area I; AA/AS Area VI; CSU Area C; IGETC Area 3B Course Transferable to UC/CSU Hours: 54 hours LEC This course examines the literature of California in the context of its ethnic, social, political, geographical and intellectual history. The course will examine a wide range of literature (fi ction, non-fi ction, poetry, memoirs, and essays) including but not limited to Native American legends, early California exploration accounts, prose and poetry from the California heartland, Hollywood crime fi ction, and more, with emphasis on what makes the California experience unique.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ENGWR 300 with a grade of "C" or betterGeneral Education: AA/AS Area I; AA/AS Area VI; CSU Area C; IGETC Area 3B Course Transferable to UC/CSU Hours: 54 hours LEC This course investigates African-American drama between 1800 and the present. African-American drama of various periods will be compared to the dominant drama of the time to investigate cultural effects on this drama. Protest drama of the 1960s will receive special focus, as will the recent resurgence of African-American drama.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ENGWR 300 with a grade of "C" or betterAdvisory: ENGWR 301 General Education: AA/AS Area I; AA/AS Area VI; CSU Area C; IGETC Area 3B Course Transferable to UC/CSU Hours: 54 hours LEC This course surveys autobiographies and fi ction written by Asian Americans; the work focus on the experience of Asian Americans growing up in a culture that is dominated by Eurocentric infl uences. The selected readings were written in American English in the last 60 years by Filipino-, Chinese-, Japanese-, and Korean-Americans. The course compares and contrasts the perspectives with which these four groups of Asian-American writers shape their portrayals of their immigration, discrimination, and assimilation experiences; further, the course examines the diversities of these experiences both within and across the generations.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ENGWR 300 with a grade of "C" or better.General Education: AA/AS Area I and VI; CSU Area C2; IGETC Area 3B Course Transferable to UC/CSU Hours: 54 hours LEC This course examines the living Native American experience as expressed through Native works of autobiography, fi ction, poetry, fi lm, and historical texts. Emphasis is placed on indigenous world views and perspectives. Highlighted are comparisons between the evolving culture of European Americans and that of Native Americans. The course examines how Native literature is a refl ection of the historical and cultural movements that have shaped, been shaped by, and interacted with the Native community. Included are samples of Native literary voices from tribes from all areas of the Americas, North, South, and Central. Field trips are required.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ENGWR 300 with a grade of "C" or betterGeneral Education: AA/AS Area I; CSU Area C; IGETC Area 3B Course Transferable to UC/CSU Hours: 54 hours LEC This course is a survey of world literature by authors of the ancient world to the early seventeenth century. Emphasis is on Western literature; in addition to Greek and Latin masterpieces, the early national literature of Italy, France, and Spain are studied. The entire range of genres is represented and, whenever possible, works are studied in their entirety.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ENGWR 300 with a grade of "C" or betterGeneral Education: AA/AS Area I; CSU Area C; IGETC Area 3B Course Transferable to UC/CSU Hours: 54 hours LEC This course is a survey of the literature of the world from the eighteenth century to the present, with emphasis on European literature. It is designed to establish an understanding of the philosophies of the various cultural periods, as well as the tempers of the classicism, romanticism, and realism in literature and the related arts.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ENGWR 300 with a grade of "C" or betterGeneral Education: AA/AS Area I; CSU Area C; IGETC Area 3B Course Transferable to UC/CSU Hours: 54 hours LEC This course provides an introduction to the multi-cultural characters and themes in dominant myths in world literature; creation stories; gods and goddesses; sagas of heroes; journeys to death and rebirth. Theories of the meanings of myths will be discussed. Students will also learn, through selected examples, how characters and stories in myths remain alive in modern literature and culture.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ENGWR 300 with a grade of "C" or betterGeneral Education: AA/AS Area I; CSU Area C; IGETC Area 3B Course Transferable to UC/CSU Hours: 54 hours LEC The roles women have played both as creators and as protagonists in the art of fi ction will be examined in this course. This course includes reading and evaluating literature from a wide range of times, places, and ethnic groups, by both men and women, although emphasis will be on works written by women.
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