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4.00 Credits
Using a whole language approach to language learning, this course concentrates on short stories about American life and culture. Stories serve as the basis for class discussion and help students improve their language skills. Readings, short papers, group discussions, and oral reports. Offered every semester. Prerequisite: ESOL II placement.
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4.00 Credits
Readings with focus on key issues of concern to ESOL students help students improve language skills. Topics include language - learning and language - loyalties, identity and acculturation, immigration and memory, and transnationalism. Papers, group discussions and oral reports. Offered every semester. Prerequisite: ESOL III placement
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6.00 Credits
EL1198, ESOL II Tutorial combines intense work in reading, grammar, writing, speaking & listening. This six credit course meets six hours a week and is designed to prepare students for ESOL IV. Prerequisite: Permission of the Chair
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4.00 Credits
No course description available.
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4.00 Credits
Designed to give the student the poise and confidence neccesary to think and speak freely before an audience. This course proceeds from audience analysis through motivation, supporting materials, organization, and delivery. Offered every semester. Prerequisite: None.
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4.00 Credits
This course seeks to establish good habit s of speech by study of principles and analysis of the individuals' voice, articulation, and pronunciation. Students will study the psychological and social bases of speech and phonetics and they will practice skills necessary for the development of voice pronunciation and diction. Offered every semester.
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4.00 Credits
This multiple-option course is designed to enable students to formulate and express independent ideas in writing and to develop essay-length critiques based on course readings in world famous literary texts. Close textual analysis of assigned readings and student-centered discussions of peer and professional writings will help refine reading, listening and speaking abilities. Organized thematically, each of the 2200 courses listed below focuses texts which serve as the basis for class discussions and as topics for assigned papers.
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4.00 Credits
This lecture/discussion course examines African-America literature from Phillis Wheatley to Paul Lawrence Dunbar. Texts include poetry, essays, poems, stories, and novels. In close textual analysis, students trace recurrent themes and images and develop an appreciation of each author's unique contribution to the African-American tradition. In- terpretive essays and a research paper are required. Offered periodically. Prerequisite: EC II Placement.
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4.00 Credits
African-American literature from Chesnutt to Morrison provides the material for discussion and serves as the basis for critical essays. Writers include Hughes, Brooks, Baraka Hurston, Morrison, and Marshall. Essays and a research paper required. Offered periodically. Prerequisite: EC II placement.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines Shakespearian themes which have intense relevance to today's divided society: sexism, racism, anti-Semitism, colonialism, and gender fluidity. Texts will include such plays as Othello, The Winter's Tale, The Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night, The Tempest, as well as some of the sonnets. Students are required to write a reading journal, analytical essays, and a research paper. Most writing is done outside of the class. Offered periodically. Prerequisite: ECII placement.
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