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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
3 semester hours Prerequisite: "NC" in ENGL 106 or placement by the English faculty An alternative version of ENGL 106, this course is designed for students who need intensive instruction in order to satisfy the requirements of ENGL 106. ENGL 107 may be taken for credit only if the student has not received credit for ENGL 106. Grades assigned for this course include the 12-point grading scale and the additions of an "NC" and "P" grades. "NC" stands for no credit and doesn't affect the GPAstands for passing and is only given to qualifying non-native speakers.
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3.00 Credits
3 semester hours This is a basic course that emphasizes writing, grammar, organization of paragraphs, and short papers. Study skills are emphasized. Students who have been out of school for awhile and who want to review their writing and study skills may take this course, which is offered in the Weekend College format only. This course may not be taken for credit with PSYC 110.
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4.00 Credits
1 to 4 semester hour(s) This is an active, experience-oriented course in which students can work with writing, language, or literature in such areas as campus publications, journalism, advertising, public relations, teaching, and librarianship. Repeatable up to four semester hours.
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1.00 Credits
1 semester hour This cornerstone course acquaints students with topics in English studies; it introduces basic bibliographic and research methods in literature, language, rhetoric, and composition; and it explains career and graduate school opportunities to English majors.
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3.00 Credits
3 semester hours Prerequisite: ENGL 106 or 107 Writing and Literature introduces students to a variety of writing and reading assignments on a topic of general interest. Each section of Writing and Literature will include a subtitle that indicates the topical focus of the section. All sections will involve the application of critical and analytical thinking to a variety of reading and writing assignments, and students will extend their experience in critical reading and in writing with sources.
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3.00 Credits
3 semester hours Prerequisite: ENGL 106 or 107 or permission of the English faculty This is a course in which students expand the range of their writing ability through workshops, written work, readings, exercises, and discussions focused on the writing of fiction and poetry. May be taken three times, provided the topics are different.
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3.00 Credits
3 semester hours Prerequisite: ENGL 272 This course will serve as an introduction to theories of style, and it will also provide students with practice in analyzing rhetorical situations for the purpose of determining and then executing an appropriate style. Theoretical topics will include the problem of defining style, the relationships between style and rhetorical situation, the problem of defining discourse community, the relationship between style and persuasion, the problems relating to style and bias, and the ethical problems associated with style. Practical issues will include diction, technical terms and jargon, tone, sentence combining, emphasis, rhythm, sentence variety, sentence elegance in technical prose, sentence faults, writing on one topic, developing the paragraph topic, achieving an effective flow, and providing adequate details.
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3.00 Credits
3 semester hours Prerequisite: ENGL 270 or permission of the instructor This course examines how public relations practitioners think, plan, and write within their profession. Students will learn to write news releases, basic feature stories, case study analyses, and other public relations-oriented materials.
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3.00 Credits
3 semester hours Prerequisite: ENGL 270 or permission of the instructor This course begins with the basics and moves through increasingly advanced forms of feature writing for newspapers and magazines. Students will learn to generate feature story ideas, research the ideas through a variety of methods, conduct in-depth interviews, and write feature stories for a variety of audiences. Students will also learn about the process of marketing stories for freelance writing.
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3.00 Credits
3 semester hours Prerequisite: ENGL 106 or 107 This course teaches students how journalists think, gather information, and write for newspapers on daily deadlines. Students practice journalistic skills, which include covering news events, conducting interviews, and writing news stories.
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